Digital Competency in Physical Education & Health
There are numerous ways to integrate technology into physical education classes, from Micro: Bit Pedometers to interactive sports simulations. Technology can make it easier for teachers to demonstrate proper techniques and track students’ progress. It also supports collaborative challenges and team-building exercises, encouraging students to work together and develop their physical skills and digital competency!
How and When to Include Technology?
Educators should strategically incorporate technology in physical Education classes, ensuring it aligns with their pedagogical goals.
Tech-Tastic Teaching Tip
Did you know you can make a step counter using a Micro:bit? This is a great way for students and educators to track their activity and set personal goals!
Featured Projects
Questions for Understanding and Self-Evaluation Tool
Are you looking for ways to bring credibility to PE & Health as a legitimate subject?
This featured resource was created by Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board teachers. It uses Google Form surveys to enhance student learning and understanding in Physical Education (PE).
- Immediate feedback.
- Each student articulates their PE knowledge (a voice for the quiet learners).
- Deeper understanding, accountability, engagement and motivation for students.
- Brings credibility to PE & Health as a legitimate subject.
- be used synchronously (in class) or asynchronously (as a home assignment).
- serve as unit previews and recaps for the teacher
- Identify learning gaps for the teacher. You will see the results of every question immediately.
- Contribute to and/or complement grade reporting for the teacher.
This survey can be tweaked to your students’ needs.
Survey #1:
Questions for Understanding
Phys. Ed. teachers and their students.
Teachers: Once the sport/activity unit is complete, administer this google form to all of your students. Make sure they follow up with the Self-Evaluation form immediately afterward.
Students : fill out the
“Questions for Understanding” for each skill after it has been taught.
Teachers: This gives you an overview of what you are teaching and identifies the gaps in your teaching. This will allow you to gather information about whether students are grasping new skills and concepts being taught.
Students: It’s an assessment tool. This form is self-correcting, so students get immediate feedback as a mark. If they get an answer “wrong”, the right answer is explained in detail immediately.
Survey #2:
Self-Evaluation
Phys. Ed. teachers and their students.
Teachers: Administer this google form to your students at the end of the unit/sport has been taught. Be sure your students have filled out the Questions for Understanding form first!
Students: fill out the
“Self-Evaluation” for each skill after it has been taught.
Teachers: This gives you an overview of what you are teaching and identifies the gaps in your teaching. This will allow you to gather information about whether students are grasping new skills and concepts being taught.
Students: It’s an assessment tool. This form is self-correcting, so students get immediate feedback as a mark. If they get an answer “wrong”, the right answer is explained in detail immediately.
Here is an example from the Badminton : Questions for Understanding survey.
Here is an example from the Badminton : Self-Evaluation survey.
List of Sports
All of the above links are in one convenient place. Check out the padlet.
Marc-Albert Paquette, pedagogical consultant, LEARN-RÉCIT
Interactive Presentation Tool
The following Interactive Resources were created by our colleagues from RECIT Développement de la Personne – Éducation physique at à la santé. They have been translated and adapted for the Anglophone community.
The content of each slide is interactive. Teachers can navigate by clicking topics much like navigating a live website. Images on the slides are hyperlinked to allow jumping back and forth throughout the slides based on the topic you want to explore. The resource is to support Teachers as they teach a given subject to PEH classes.
More interactive resource of this nature will appear here, over the course of the 2024-2025 school year.
Creating your own lead up games
The following resources were created by Joseph Ricci, physical education teacher, for the APEQ Conference 2024. The resources were created to support teachers in building a mindset for creating their own lead up games for any grade level.
This slide deck goes through the significance of lead up games and offers a model which will help you create your own lead up games that are specifically tailored to your students’ needs in any level.
This Prezi presentation provides a global overview of creating a lead up game.
Key Basketball: a game/lesson plan example merging a skill in basketball (shooting) with an invasion-style game.
Walk the Plank! a game/lesson plan example merging a skill in hockey (wrist shots) with a target and cooperation style game.
Football Mastermind: a game/lesson plan example merging a skill in football (passing and catching) with a target and cooperation style game.
