Introduction Questions

Grade 6 Health Brainstorming

Active Living:

1) What can you do to keep school and community play spaces clean, tidy, and attractive so that you can enjoy being physically active outside?

2) List reasons why people are motivated to be physically active every day.

3) List reasons that make it difficult for people to be physically active every day.

Physical Fitness:

4) Explain why a person should do a warm up before physical activity.

5) Identify the component of health-related fitness. There are 4.

Safety:

6) What safety considerations do you need to consider if you are playing a sport like touch football or basketball?

7) What is something you could say to help a teammate feel good when they are struggling with a new skill?

8) Active transportation means traveling using muscle power. Make a list of the different modes of active transportation.

9) What safety considerations are there when traveling by active transportation?

Movement Skills and Concepts:

10) Describe a body position that will give you excellent balance.

11) Describe a body position that will keep your body in control after a jump, as you land.

12) Describe how to throw a ball faster. What do you have to do?

13) Describe how to catch an object that is coming fast towards you.

Movement Strategies:

14) A teacher is noticing that some students are not getting passed to during a basketball game- how can the game be changed to solve this problem?

15) Explain why you think a teacher has students in shifts for a sport like floor hockey.

16) Imagine that you are in a classroom and one of your classmates is partially blind, but they want to enjoy learning how to catch an object. How could you help your classmate have success with this?

17) In a game like volleyball explain a strategy for scoring a point.

18) Imagine that you are speaking with a Grade 3 student who is new to X-country. Give this student some tips on how to be successful.

19) In games that require to pass a lot and to be passed to, what is important for success?

Personal Safety & Injury Prevention:

20) If you are being bullied or you know someone who is being bullied, to whom can you turn for help?

21) What should you do in a situation in which someone is being violent?

22) What are things about people that someone may harass them about?

23) Describe a strategy you could use in a situation where you are being harassed because of your gender, race, religion, body shape, weight or ability?

24) What are things that people do that make other people feel less about themselves?

25) What can you say or do for other people that helps you feel good about yourself?

Substance Abuse, Addictions & Related Behaviour

26) How realistic are the messages that we get from the media about drinking alcohol?

27) Some adults drink alcoholic beverages in social settings or during celebrations. How is this different from teens drinking alcohol?

28) What are the short-term effects of alcohol abuse?

29) What are the long-term effects of alcohol abuse?

30) Think about the future, what might you do if someone is pressuring you to try alcohol or a cigarette?

Healthy Eating:

31) What information can you find on a food label that will help you determine how healthy or unhealthy the food item is?

32) What should you make yourself aware of when you see a commercial with a professional athlete who is drinking an energy drink?