Overview

Active living is built into this Grade 4 Health lesson bundle aligned to Ontario, with 5 ready-to-print worksheets for student practice. 🙂

What’s Included

• ✅ Grade 4 Health Worksheet | Physical Benefits & Exercise Concepts (PDF) – Students identify physical benefits and connect common exercise ideas to personal well-being.
• ✅ Grade 4 Health | Personal Goals Worksheet (Ontario Standards) (PDF) – Learners set and refine achievable goals, linking intentions to measurable next steps.
• ✅ Grade 4 Health Fitness Activities Worksheet (Ontario) | Practice & Assessment (PDF) – Students practice fitness concepts and complete short prompts that support checking understanding.
• ✅ Grade 4 Health Worksheet | Balance and Fitness (PDF) | Ontario Standards – Students explore balance as part of fitness and describe how balance can improve movement.
• ✅ Grade 4 – Active Play Worksheet (Ontario Standard) (PDF) – Students consider how active play supports health and explain what active play looks like in daily life.

Skills & Standards

This Active Living unit supports Ontario-focused learning by emphasizing crosscutting concepts such as patterns (how activity routines affect energy and fitness), systems (how the body works together during movement), and cause and effect (how choices influence well-being). Students also engage with disciplinary core ideas related to physical activity and fitness: benefits of movement, goal-setting for safe participation, and recognizing balance and active play as meaningful components of a healthy lifestyle. Throughout the worksheets, teachers can model thinking processes—for example, demonstrating how to translate a goal into an action plan and how to explain a fitness choice using a clear reason. Students then use analytical reasoning to interpret prompts, sort examples of activities, and make connections between what they do and what they notice. Finally, learners practice evidence-based explanations by describing benefits and next steps using the worksheet’s guided observations and responses, building confidence in communicating health reasoning.

Perfect For

• Teachers seeking structured instruction
• Sub plans
• Homework or review
• Intervention or centers
• Assessment preparation

How to Use

Use this lesson bundle as a multi-day mini-sequence: Day 1 for benefits and exercise concepts, Day 2 for personal goals, Day 3 for fitness activity practice, Day 4 for balance connections, and Day 5 for active play reflection. Print the worksheets as individual student pages for independent work, or run them in centers where one station includes teacher check-ins and brief goal conferencing. Pair each worksheet with a short movement routine or discussion (2–5 minutes) so students can connect classroom examples to their written responses. For quick formative assessment, collect one worksheet page as an exit slip and use the remaining pages for homework or follow-up practice.

Closing

Use this Grade 4 Health lesson bundle to strengthen active living habits with Ontario-aligned practice, clear prompts, and ready-to-assess student evidence.