PPL1O
Healthy Active Living Education
This Grade 9 Healthy Active Living Education course helps students build the knowledge and skills needed to make healthy choices and lead active lives. Students explore physical activity, fitness, health concepts and living skills in an accessible online format.
Grade
9
Credit
1.0
Delivery
Online
Prerequisite
None
About This Course
This Grade 9 Healthy Active Living Education course helps students build the knowledge and skills needed to make healthy choices and lead active lives. Students explore physical activity, fitness, health concepts and living skills in an accessible online format.
What You'll Learn
- Participate actively and safely in a variety of physical activities.
- Apply fitness concepts and create personal activity and wellness plans.
- Develop movement skills, movement concepts and strategies for different activities.
- Understand health concepts related to nutrition, personal safety, mental health and substance use.
- Use health knowledge and living skills to make reasoned personal choices.
- Explore healthy relationships, human development, personal well-being and lifelong participation.
Skills You'll Develop
- Personal fitness planning and self-monitoring
- Movement competence and safe participation
- Goal setting, reflection and self-regulation
- Health decision-making and critical thinking
- Interpersonal communication and healthy relationship skills
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate living skills, including personal, interpersonal, critical-thinking and creative-thinking skills.
- Participate actively and regularly and understand factors that support lifelong physical activity.
- Apply physical-fitness concepts and safe practices.
- Perform movement skills and apply movement concepts and strategies.
- Understand factors that contribute to healthy development.
- Apply health knowledge and living skills to make reasoned choices and take appropriate action.
- Make connections between personal choices, behaviours, the surrounding world and health and well-being.
Course Units
The following reflects the school’s planned organization of the course. Approximate time allocations may be adjusted while all curriculum expectations and required planned learning are maintained.
| Unit | Title / Major Learning Focus | Approx. Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Active Living, Fitness Concepts and Personal Activity Planning | 22 hours |
| 2 | Movement Skills, Concepts and Individual/Partner Activities | 20 hours |
| 3 | Movement Strategies, Recreation and Lifelong Participation | 18 hours |
| 4 | Healthy Living: Nutrition, Personal Safety, Mental Health and Substance Use | 22 hours |
| 5 | Healthy Relationships, Human Development and Personal Well-being | 16 hours |
| 6 | Culminating Healthy Active Living Portfolio and Personal Wellness Plan | 10 hours |
| Final | Mandatory Written Final Examination | 2 hours |
Assessment
Assessment uses evidence gathered over time from student work, conversations and observations. The final grade for 2026–2027 is determined as follows:
| Component | Weight | How It Is Determined |
|---|---|---|
| Course work throughout the course | 65% | Evaluation evidence gathered throughout the course, with special consideration for consistent and more recent achievement. |
| Mandatory written final examination | 10% | Written final examination during the designated final-evaluation period. |
| Culminating task | 10% | Culminating work demonstrating comprehensive achievement of course expectations. |
| Attendance and participation | 15% | Based on meaningful engagement and participation in planned learning. |
Examples of Assessment Evidence
Assessment may include activity demonstrations, movement-analysis tasks, fitness plans and logs, oral explanations, conferences, health inquiry projects, written health assignments, portfolios and final evaluations.
Pathways
Students explore pathways and careers related to health, fitness, recreation, coaching, kinesiology, wellness, public health and other areas that connect physical and mental well-being to community engagement.
The course also develops transferable skills that can be applied in other subjects, postsecondary learning, community contexts and future employment.
Teacher Support
- Students learn primarily through the school's secure online learning environment and receive ongoing support from qualified teachers.
- Teacher-supported conferencing, tutorials and scheduled live support are available as appropriate.
- Teacher-guided fitness and movement demonstrations use safe, accessible activities appropriate to the online environment.
- Students receive feedback through movement analysis, self-assessment, teacher review, activity logs and fitness planning.
- Health learning is supported through case studies, scenarios, guided discussion, inquiry and decision-making activities.
- Activities can be adapted to student readiness, ability, interests and access to safe activity spaces while maintaining course expectations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the course code?
PPL1O — Healthy Active Living Education, Grade 9, Open.
How many credits is PPL1O?
The course is worth 1.0 Ontario secondary school credit.
Is there a prerequisite?
No. There is no prerequisite or co-requisite.
How can physical education be completed online?
The course combines online lessons and teacher guidance with teacher-approved physical activity completed in safe and appropriate settings, including at home or in the community.
How is the final grade calculated?
65% course work, 10% mandatory written final examination, 10% culminating task, and 15% attendance and participation.
What health topics are included?
Topics include nutrition, personal safety, mental health, substance use, healthy relationships, human development and personal well-being.
Is teacher feedback available for movement activities?
Yes. Teacher guidance and feedback can include demonstrations, video/observation-based movement analysis, conferences, self-assessment and activity logs.
Ready to Take This Course?
$549 / Credit
- Provided by CSW — Canadian School of the World
- Ontario Ministry of Education registered
- Delivered fully online
Need Help Deciding?
Not sure if this is the right course? Book a free 30-minute meeting with a CSW advisor.
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