TABLE 2 CHOICE OF ACTIVITIES FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL

Educational Level Aims at Each Suggested Suggested Resources Developmental Stage Activities – Activities – Competency Competency Performs Interacts

Elementary Introduction to basic Although the activities suggested here Moving and Growing: Physical activity series for Cycle One motor activities and are suitable for all three cycles of ele - five- and six-year-olds, and seven- and eight-year- settings (e.g. water, mentary school, they must be adapted olds – Canadian Child Care Federation. snow, ice) to the students’ developmental stage www.cccf-fcsge.ca/publications/publications_en.html and to the degree of difficulty to be Teacher’s Guide to Physical Activity for Children • agility achieved. (6-9 years of age) and for Youth (10-14 years of age) – • coordination Public Health Agency of Canada. • balance www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/pau-uap/ • speed Cyclical activities: Group activities: fitness/downloads.html cycling, walking, mini-basketball, running, swimming, mini-volleyball, Great Ideas: Games and Activities for Youth, by skating, snowshoeing kinball, Youth: Resource tool for people who work with ele - parachute, tchoukball, mentary school children – Canadian Association for Elementary Single-action activities: flag football, soccer, Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Cycle Two jumping, throwing winterball, www.excelway.ca/secure/eng/details.cfm?ID=101 ring game 130 bonnes idées à partager – Directory of ideas sub - Skill activities: mitted by physical education teachers for elementary- , juggling Combat activities: secondary school- and college-level students. judo, martial arts Available in French only at: Technical/artistic www.kino-quebec.qc.ca/scolaire.asp activities: gymnastics Duelling activities: Sport étudiant network: ISO-Actif program, MEPSÉ, steal the bacon, Gym en forme, Acti-midi, Passeport santé. tug-of-war Available in French only at: Rhythmic and www.sportetudiant.qc.ca expressive activities: Cooperative activities: dance, mime games, pyramid building Dynamo : programme de prévention de l’abandon de la pratique de l’activité physique à l’adolescence. Elementary Basics essential This program encourages reflection and suggests Cycle Three to practising a guidelines for action to prevent adolescents from sport, initiation becoming physically inactive. It contains suggestions Starting in Elementary Cycle Three, inter - to at least three for activities that correspond to the characteristics scholastic sports may be considered. sports or physical of youth 9-15 years of age – Kino-Québec. activities Available in French only at: www.kino-quebec.qc.ca/scolaire.asp

Secondary Development of Free-time activities and activities to get in shape Opération Ados: pour donner aux « ados » le goût Cycle One general physical are very popular among teenagers. Set up a room de bouger [Suggestions on how to get teens and Cycle Two condition for weight training or dance (e.g. hip-hop, aero - moving] – Kino-Québec. bics, street dance). Available in French only at: www.kino-quebec.qc.ca/scolaire.asp Development of Think outside the box and try new trends: Sport étudiant network: ISO-Actif program, MEPSÉ, a repertoire of hebertism (treetop workouts), mountain climbing, Gym en forme, Acti-midi, Passeport santé. more sophisticated cyclotourism, grass or beach volleyball, foot- Available in French only at: sports skills (at least two bagging (hackeysack) club, etc. www.sportetudiant.qc.ca sports) For recreational and intramural activities: get 130 bonnes idées à partager - Directory of ideas sub - students involved in selecting activities. mitted by physical education teachers for elementary- , secondary school- and college-level students. For interscholastic activities: encourage students Available in French only at: to take up a different sport or physical activity, www.kino-quebec.qc.ca/scolaire.asp other than the one usually practised. A 3 0 0 0 - 6 2 GOING THE HEALTHY ROUTE AT SCHOOL Pamphlet 7 — Extracurricular Physical Activities in Elementary and Secondary Schools