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Obesity costs Canadians
$1.6 billion a year in direct healthcare costs as well as $2.7 billion in indirect costs such as lost productivity
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Physical Education and Physical Literacy
Attention towards understanding youth physical fitness in relation to health has developed in the last few years. With this in mind, educators are seeking a curriculum with a vision of building physical and health literacy. Students need to be experiencing programs that are more engaging, energizing and personally enriching. Better quality physical education is likely to change the health-related behaviours and attitudes of students, as well as those of their families and communities. Physical literacy is a term that is not always easy to understand. Physical and Health Education Canada defines being physically literate as: an individual who moves with competence in a wide variety of physical activities that benefit the development of the whole person. Physically literate individuals are able to demonstrate a variety of movements confidently, competently, creatively and strategically across a wide range of health related physical activities.
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Physical Literacy
The learning and practice of fundamental movement skills is the basic building block for the development of physical literacy. Much like learning the alphabet and phonics are the fundamental skills needed to eventually read Shakespeare, or, identifying numbers and learning to add and subtract are the fundamental skills needed to eventually balance a cheque-book, the development of fundamental movement skills, and fundamental sport skills, is critical if children are to feel confident when they engage in physical activity for fun and for health, or for competition and the pursuit of excellence.
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Supplementary Article: Two Approaches, One Concept
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Physical Literacy in School
Teachers across all grades and subject areas understand the importance of fostering literacy in children when it comes to reading and writing, but the idea of physical literacy (the ability to move with competence in a variety of physical activities) and health literacy (the skills needed to get, understand, and use information to make good decisions for health) are newer concepts. And, luckily for Ontario's educators and students, they are both concepts which the revised H&PE curriculum clearly defines and fully supports.
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Supplementary Article: Physical Literacy for Educators |
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Fundamental Movement Skills
The teaching and assessment of fundamental movement skills are very important for the children's motor development and continued participation in physical. It has been suggested that fundamental movement skills are the "building blocks" of more specific sports-related skills. The development and mastery of fundamental movement skills should occur during the preschool and elementary years. Without mastery of fundamental movement skills, children will lose interest and eventually drop out of most if not all physical activities. Summarize the importance of fundamental movement skills in the following statement: Indeed, these fundamental motor patterns form a base camp to which the individual may always return as he attempts to climb the various peaks (skills) on the mountain of motor development.
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Supplementary Article: Movement Skill Assessment Tools |
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Increasing Physical Activity at School
There are a number of options for increasing student physical activity during the school day. In designing and coordinating theses opportunities physical educators must think “outside the box,” selecting activities that will not only work for the chosen setting, but also motivate students, faculty and staff to participate.
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Supplementary Article: School-Based Physical Activity
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Benefits of PE
Advocates of physical education and sport (PES) have listed numerous benefits associated with participation in these activities. For example, Talbot claims that physical education helps children to develop respect for the body — their own and others', contributes toward the integrated development of mind and body, develops an understanding of the role of aerobic and anaerobic physical activity in health, positively enhances self-confidence and self-esteem, and enhances social and cognitive development and academic achievement.
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Supplementary Article: Costs, Benefits and Barriers
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News from SIRC |
4th annual Sport Canada Research Initiative (SCRI) Conference
Sport Canada invites you to the 4th annual Sport Canada Research Initiative (SCRI) Conference to be held in Ottawa, October 28, at the Crowne Plaza. This year, we invite you to register on-line at www.sirc.ca/SCRI.
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SIRC Research Award
SIRC is proud to announce the official launch of the 2011 SIRC Research Award. SIRC invites Canadian university students and faculty to submit their original sport related research for consideration of the 2010 SIRC Research Award.
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Ask A SIRC Librarian |
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SIRC members have access to SIRC librarians and we are pleased to share some of your questions.
Dear SIRC Librarian:
Could you provide me with information on exercise-induced asthma? I am coaching an athlete that has been diagnosed with this and I want to learn more about it.
Thank you,
Henry
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