A group of Brock University teaching candidates combined their sport expertise and knowledge of the Ontario secondary curriculum to create free, open-access units of study for online teaching. These e-learning resources work to integrate sport across multiple curriculum areas and connect to several courses throughout the Ontario curriculum.
There are two comprehensive units of study:
1. Sport: A Connection to Health and Society
This e-learning resource connects health, society, and sport. Content deals with a wide range of topics including: mental health, physical and social wellbeing, nutrition, anatomy, sexual health, privilege, fair play, sports in adulthood, peer pressure and addiction, as well as sport theory across the sciences (physics, chemistry, and biology).
This resource includes content from the following Ontario curriculum areas:
2. Evolution and Development of Sport in Canada
This e-learning resource outlines how Canadian sport (both amateur and professional) have developed and evolved alongside an ever-changing society. This resource is divided into three time periods: 1860-1944, 1945-1980, and 1980- present, and focuses on three major areas of sport for each period: the history of sport, social justice issues in sport, and the business of sport.
This resource includes content from the following Ontario curriculum areas:
How Can Ontario Curriculum E-Learning Resources Help You?
With the COVID-19 crisis shining a spotlight on online curriculum development in Ontario, it is now more important than ever to create contemporary online resources for secondary students. Creating activities that are informative, interesting, and fun to complete is essential for knowledge retention as well as overall satisfaction with a learning experience.
The Brock teaching candidates who created these e-learning resources designed their lessons with teachers in mind, giving teachers the opportunity to use the content as they wish and mold the various modules to their liking. Both sites are also very easy to navigate, allowing teachers and students the freedom to move through lessons with ease.
Do These E-Learning Resources Apply to the Ontario Curriculum?
Yes! These open-access resources are designed with certain curriculum expectations in mind and include material that connects to several courses throughout the Ontario curriculum. These are:
1. Sport: A Connection to Health and Society
- Health and Physical Education
- PPL1O: Healthy Active Living Education, Grade 9, Open
- PPL2O: Healthy Active Living Education, Grade 10, Open
- PPL3O: Healthy Active Living Education, Grade 11, Open
- PPL4O: Healthy Active Living Education, Grade 12, Open
- Science
- SNC2D: Science, Grade 10, Academic
- SNC2P: Science, Grade 10, Applied
- SBI4U: Biology, Grade 12, University Preparation
- SCH3U: Chemistry, Grade 11, University Preparation
- SCH4C: Chemistry, Grade 12, College Preparation
- SPH3U: Physics, Grade 11, University Preparation
- SPH4U: Physics, Grade 12, University Preparation
- SNC4M: Science, Grade 12, University/College Preparation
- PSK4U: Introductory Kinesiology, Grade 12, University Preparation
2. Evolution and Development of Sport in Canada
- History
- PLF4M: Recreation and Healthy Active Living Leadership, Grade 12, University/College Preparation
- CHI4U: Canada: History, Identity, and Culture, Grade 12, University Preparation
- Social Justice
- HSB4U: Challenge and Change in Society, Grade 12, University Preparation
- Business
- BMI3C: Marketing: Goods, Services, Events, Grade 11, College Preparation
- BDI3C: Entrepreneurship: The Venture, Grade 11, College Preparation
- BDV4C: Entrepreneurship: Venture Planning in an Electronic Age, Grade 12, College Preparation
- BOH4M: Business Leadership: Management Fundamentals, Grade 12, University/College Preparation
Thank you to the following teacher candidates who created these e-learning resources:
Sport: A Connection to Health and Society: Gizela Gavran, Rachael Holmes, and Matthew Mascola
Evolution and Development of Sport in Canada: Laura Tober, Anna Pocrnick, Grainger Munro, and Cameron Dakin
A big thank you to Dr. Hilary Brown in the Faculty of Education for her guidance and support in the development of these resources.
We hope that everyone enjoys these resources as much as our teacher candidates enjoyed making them!
