Resource name and target audience
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Resource description
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Picture of resource
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Active Living
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Phyz Mascot
For kindergarten to Grade 12 school events
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Phyz is the physical activity mascot. He comes with a green Active Ottawa Actif t-shirt and a blue Ottawa Public Health vest. Optional gear includes a black helmet and skates.
A Public Health Nurse must accompany this resource.
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Jump Ropes
All grades
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Skipping can be a positive way to enrich a student’s ability to develop strength, coordination and stamina. Kit comes with 15 long and 15 short ropes as well as a description on how to do simple skipping games.
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Physical Activity Dice Game
All grades
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Kids love these super-sized, soft activity dice. One die is labelled with numbers, the other with simple activities like touch your toes, or do a push up. The children throw both dice in the air and complete the number and type of activity dictated by the dice.
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Rubber chickens
All grades
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Great physical activity tool to use in a variety of games or in class teaching aid/prop. Comes with an outline on various rubber chicken games.
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Parachute
Grades JK-6
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This parachute encourages cooperative play while building upper-body strength and helps in create perceptual and cognitive skills.
Sizes available: 12 ft, 20 ft, 30 ft.
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Tug-O-War
Grades 1 to 12
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This 4-way Tug-o-war is an effective team builder. Being physically active and developing communication skills by working as a team to develop a strategy is the ultimate goal of this game. It can accommodate a large or small group.
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Body Ball
Grades 4 to 12
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Body Ball is an activity used to promote physical activity. Participants wear Velcro vests and throw balls at each other that stick to the vests. Each kit includes 4 vests and 4 balls.
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Omnikin Ball
Grades 4 to 12
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This gigantic ball comes with set-up instructions as well as an electric pump.
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Speed Stackers
Grades 4 to 12
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Speed Stackers can be used as a fun activity to help students develop hand-eye coordination as well as brain development, sequencing and patterning. Students stack and un-stack 12 specially designed cups in predetermined sequences.
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Hacky Sacks
Grades 4 to 12
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A fun, energetic, flexible moving game that encourages cooperation.
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Active Transportation Wheel
Grades 7 to 12 and parents
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This interactive game for youth and parents educates and increases the awareness around the importance of active transportation in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Participants spin the wheel and answer questions related to physical activity, pedestrian safety, helmet safety, the environment, cycling safety and associated myths. Includes separate question and answers cards for youth and parents. Ideal for events/health fairs.
This activity must be staffed by a Public Health Nurse.
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Injury Prevention
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Sun Safety Kit
Kindergarten to grade 8
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This Sun Safety Kit contains an activity guide (JK to grade 4), UV Frisbee activity, DVD and factsheets. It also includes The Sun Game, a fun, kinesthetic floor game to reinforce UV and Sun Safety messages. The object of the game is to be the first student or team to arrive at the beach, having correctly answered the sun safety questions and then having collected all the items needed to be protected from the sun. Contents of the kit are bilingual.
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Sun Safety Mini Kit
Kindergarten to grade 4 |
This Sun Safety Mini Kit contains an activity guide, UV Frisbee activity, DVD and factsheets. Contents of the kit are bilingual.
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Active Transportation Bingo
Grades 1 to 3 |
The goal of this game is to help students recognize road safety signs while teaching them road safety. This kit includes laminated road sign illustrations, a riddle activity to help reinforce learning, 30 different Bingo cards as well as Bingo card markers. Contents of this resource are bilingual.
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Cool 2 Be Safe Program
Grades 2 to 4 |
This is a curriculum-based program for schools. It is evidence-based and has been shown to reduce children's intentions to do fall-risk behaviors on playgrounds. This interactive program is designed to be flexible so that teachers can implement lessons whenever it suits their classroom schedule.
Contact your Public Health Nurse for more information.
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Helmet Safety Bin
Grades 4 to 6 |
The Helmet Safety bin is used to educate students on helmet safety and head injury prevention. The bin contains a teaching manual with various lesson plans and activities, a bicycle helmet and mannequin head for a helmet fitting demonstration, photos of different types of helmets, photos of the brain lobes, an egg helmet, a gelatin brain mould, a trivia game and a DVD.
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Helmet Safety Presentation
Grades 4 to 6 |
This 50-minute presentation covers multiple areas related to helmet safety and head injury prevention. The presentation includes the anatomy of the brain, the importance of protecting your brain, matching different types of helmets with different activities and ensuring the proper fit of a bicycle helmet. A trivia game completes the presentation to reinforcing learning.
This activity must be staffed by a Public Health Nurse. |
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Bicycle Safety Presentation
Grades 5 to 6 |
This 40-minute presentation covers multiple areas related to bicycle safety such as helmet safety, rules of the road, and bicycle riding skills. A trivia game completes the presentation to reinforcing learning.
This activity must be staffed by a Public Health Nurse. |
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Multi Helmet Bin
Grades 7 to 12 |
This Multi helmet bin is used to support any activity or event by teaching about head injury prevention among youth. The bin includes a mini egg helmet, a head model and 4 helmets (bicycle, skateboarding, ski and hockey).
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