Physical Education

Daily Physical Activity Handbook

A Handbook for Grades 1–9 Schools (2006)

This resource is available for purchase from the Learning Resources Centre or may be downloaded at no cost from this site.

This resource supports implementation of the Daily Physical Activity (DPA) Initiative that became mandatory in September 2005. The resource is designed to provide teachers and administrators with information and ideas for developing a daily physical activity program. The resource contains numerous activities that can be organized by the school for small spaces, outdoors, whole school ideas and for the gymnasium.

  • Complete resource (3.9 mb)  
  • By Sections: 
        — Cover (120 kb)
        — Inside cover, Cataloguing in Publication page, Acknowledgements, Table of Contents (38 kb)
        — Section 1: Introduction (136 kb)
        — Section 2: Teachers (380 kb)
        — Section 3: Physical Activities – Classroom or Small Space (374 kb)
        — Section 3: Physical Activities – Gym or Open Space (374 kb)
        — Section 3: Physical Activities – Outdoors (321 kb)
        — Section 3: Physical Activities – Whole School or Large Group (275 kb)
        — Section 4: Administrators (286 kb)
        — Section 5: Appendices 1–22 (1.6 mb)
        — Section 5: Appendices 23–27 (63 kb)
        — Section 5: Appendices 28–29 (36 kb)
        — Section 5: Appendices 30 (222 kb)
        — Bibliography (33 kb)

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