Healthy Active Living Education

This is the first unit of PPL2O, Healthy Active Living Education, Grade 10 (Open), one full credit. It covers two of the course's three strands: A. Active Living and B. Movement Competence: Skills, Concepts, and Strategies. The living skills (1.1 self-awareness and self-monitoring, 1.2 adaptive, management and coping skills, 1.3 communication, 1.4 relationship and social skills, and 1.5 critical and creative thinking) are built into every lesson.

Grade 10 builds on Grade 9 (PPL1O). You already know the five parts of active participation, Karvonen heart-rate zones, the fitness components, FITT and the training principles, SMART goals, CPR and AED steps, the phases of movement and the five activity categories. This year you use those tools at a higher level.

In Active Living you build a balanced activity portfolio and reflect on how your background shapes your choices. You use motivation science and if-then plans to stay active through life's changes. You lead warm-ups and adapt activities so people of different abilities can take part. You design continuous circuits and intervals for at least 20 minutes of sustained activity. You explain the factors that influence fitness (heredity, growth, nutrition, social, economic and cultural factors, physical limitations, and how well training is designed). You monitor your fitness with a training log, session load and heart-rate recovery, and run a 6-week plan with a mid-point review. You control contact and intensity, ride and hike safely with buddies and the right gear, and identify emergency equipment from AEDs to canoe bailers.

In Movement Competence you combine skills while responding to external stimuli (obstacle courses, dance sequences, flip turns, ringette, rhythmic throw-and-catch), analyse phases of movement with video, apply movement principles from physics (force, impulse, stability, projectiles), understand the components, rules and etiquette of activities in many settings, choose tactics in all five activity categories, and explore how growing competence builds confidence and motivation.

Every activity is designed for a home, yard or park, with a warm-up and safety notes. Useful equipment: running shoes, comfortable clothes, water, a timer or phone, a soft ball, a flying disc or paper plate, a skipping rope, a towel or mat, a few markers (cones, shoes or bottles), a notebook, and a grown-up or friend to practise with.

Curriculum expectations covered: A1.1, A1.2, A1.3, A2.1, A2.2, A2.3, A2.4, A3.1, A3.2, B1.1, B1.2, B1.3, B1.4, B2.1, B2.2, B2.3, and Living Skills 1.1 to 1.5 (The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 to 12: Health and Physical Education, 2015, course PPL2O). The Healthy Living strand (C) is taught in the Healthy Living unit.

In this unit you will look closely at your own eating habits (the physical and emotional factors behind them), evaluate dietary choices and diet trends using reliable information, and learn how you, as a consumer, can improve food choices at school and in the community (C2.1, C2.2, C3.1). You will explore factors that enhance mental health and emotional and spiritual well-being (C1.1), work through conflict within yourself and with others (C2.3), and spot and reduce health and safety risks in your environment (C3.2). You will learn how substance use and addictive behaviours affect every part of health (C1.2), practise adaptive, coping and management skills for challenging situations (C2.4), and analyse addictions as public issues locally, nationally and internationally (C3.3). Finally, you will examine factors that influence sexual decision making (C2.5), how an exclusive romantic relationship affects you and your other relationships (C3.5), and common misconceptions about sexuality and how to respond critically and fairly (C3.4). Living Skills (1.1 self-awareness, 1.2 coping, 1.3 communication, 1.4 relationships, 1.5 critical thinking) are practised throughout.

This unit builds on Grade 9 Healthy Living (holistic health, nutrition and labels, technology safety, bullying, mental health warning signs, resilience, social influences on substance use, contraception and STIs, gender identity and sexual orientation, healthy relationships and consent) without repeating it.

Some topics are sensitive. Those lessons begin with a short note and helplines (9-8-8, Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868) and include notes for parents. Lessons 10 to 12 are part of Ontario's human development and sexual health expectations; they follow the curriculum's wording, stay factual and non-graphic, and present waiting as a healthy choice. Families with concerns can talk to the school about its policy and options.

Curriculum expectations covered: C1.1, C1.2, C2.1, C2.2, C2.3, C2.4, C2.5, C3.1, C3.2, C3.3, C3.4, C3.5, and Living Skills 1.1 to 1.5 (The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 to 12: Health and Physical Education, 2015; Healthy Active Living Education, Grade 10, Open, PPL2O).