Healthy Active Living Education – Grade 9

Overall Curriculum Expectations

By the end of this course, students will be:

Strand A: Active Living

A1. Participate actively and regularly in a wide variety of physical activities, and demonstrate an understanding of the value of physical activity in their life.
A2. Demonstrate an understanding of the components of health-related fitness, the benefits of physical activity, and the factors that contribute to healthy development.
A3. Demonstrate responsibility for their personal fitness by applying physical fitness concepts and principles and using self-assessment strategies to develop, monitor, and revise personal fitness plans.

Strand B: Movement Competence: Skills, Concepts, and Strategies

B1. Perform movement skills, demonstrating an understanding of the basic requirements of the skills and applying movement concepts as appropriate.
B2. Apply movement strategies appropriately, demonstrating an understanding of the components of a variety of physical activities.

Strand C: Healthy Living

C1. Demonstrate an understanding of factors that contribute to healthy development.
C2. Demonstrate the ability to apply health knowledge and living skills to make reasoned decisions and take appropriate actions relating to their personal health and well-being.
C3. Demonstrate the ability to make connections that relate to health and well-being – how their choices and behaviours affect both themselves and others, and how factors in the world around them affect their own and others’ health and well-being.