Alberta - Physical Education and Wellness Grade 2
Character Development
Exploration of life opportunities and virtues develops resilience and personal talents and promotes lifelong learning.
Guiding Question: How are roles connected to character development?
Learning Outcome: Students examine roles, responsibilities, and self-regulation and their connections to self-understanding.
Knowledge: Self-regulation is effectively maintaining control over attention, thoughts, emotions, and behaviour in a variety of situations. Self-regulation is the ability to attain or maintain a level of focus and function.
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Understanding: Self-regulation can help decrease stress and manage anxiety.
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Skills and Procedures: Explain the benefits of self-regulation.
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Knowledge: Self-regulation strategies include
- physical activity
- thinking before responding
- recognizing challenges and obstacles
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Understanding: Self-regulation strategies that maintain or enhance positive emotions are important for establishing effective outcomes.
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Skills and Procedures: Describe strategies that support self-regulation.
Practise a variety of self-regulation strategies.
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Safety
A lifetime of optimal well-being is supported by prioritizing health and safety.
Guiding Question: How can safety be supported in various contexts?
Learning Outcome: Students examine and apply personal safety in a variety of situations.
Knowledge: Safety strategies are developed for a variety of contexts, such as
- home
- school
- online
- emergencies
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- Privacy Pirates
- Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?
- Rules of the Game
- Wacky Media Songs: Privacy and Security
Understanding: Safety is needed for survival.
Individual consent is important in making safe decisions.
Trusted adults in the school and community can support individuals in unsafe and uncomfortable situations.
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- Privacy Pirates
- Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?
- Rules of the Game
- Wacky Media Songs: Privacy and Security
Skills and Procedures: Discuss ways to respond in unsafe or uncomfortable situations.
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- Privacy Pirates
- Privacy Pursuit: What is Privacy?
- Rules of the Game
- Wacky Media Songs: Privacy and Security
Growth and Development
Growth and Development: Decision making that optimizes personal health and well-being is informed by understanding growth and development.
Guiding Question: How can growth change over time?
Learning Outcome: Students examine how growth is affected by variables.
Knowledge: Body image is the way an individual views or feels about their body.
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Understanding: Accepting and appreciating the changes of the body during growth can support positive body image.
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Skills and Procedures: Recognize how a variety of factors can affect healthy growth.