Overview

Active Living health routines come to life in this Grade 5 Health lesson bundle aligned to the Ontario framework. With ready-to-print worksheets, students practice how regular activity supports well-being while building the habit of planning, safety-checking, and explaining their choices using evidence.

Designed for classroom success, these activities support focused instruction across multiple class periods, not a single worksheet day. 🏃

What’s Included

• ✅ Grade 5 Health Strategies for Regular Activity Worksheet (Ontario) (PDF) – Students identify practical strategies that help them stay active and consistent.
• ✅ Grade 5 Health - Safety Principles Worksheet (PDF) | Ontario Standards – Students review safety principles and match actions to safer choices during activity.
• ✅ Grade 5 Health | Fitness Components Worksheet (Ontario Standards) (PDF) – Students explore fitness components and connect each component to what it supports.
• ✅ Grade 5 Health | Designing Fitness Plans Worksheet (Ontario Standards) (PDF) – Students design a simple fitness plan using goals, scheduling, and safe activity considerations.
• ✅ Grade 5 Health Benefits of Exercise Worksheet (Ontario Standards) (PDF) – Students explain benefits of exercise and organize reasons that support their thinking.
• ✅ Grade 5 Health Activity Preferences Worksheet (Ontario Standards) (PDF) – Students reflect on preferences and choose activities that fit their interests and goals.

Skills & Standards

Aligned to Ontario expectations, this Active Living lesson bundle supports crosscutting concepts such as recognizing patterns in routines and understanding systems (how choices affect health over time). Students engage with disciplinary core ideas related to health and physical activity, including how regular movement, safety, and fitness components work together. Teachers can use modeling to demonstrate how to read prompts, select safety-focused details, and build clear fitness plan steps. Throughout, students practice analytical reasoning by comparing options, planning for consistency, and revising based on feedback. Students also produce evidence-based explanations by using worksheet prompts to justify benefits, choices, and plan decisions with specific details.

Perfect For

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

How to Use

Use this lesson bundle over a multi-day pacing sequence (for example, 1–2 days per worksheet depending on discussion time). Start with strategies and safety, then move into fitness components and benefits, followed by designing a fitness plan and finishing with activity preferences to personalize next steps. Consider running a short teacher modeling routine before independent work, then circulate to prompt analytical reasoning (What evidence from the worksheet supports your choice?). For centers or intervention, assign one worksheet at a time and pair students with a checklist for safety and explanation.

Closing

Print, teach, and collect evidence of student learning as they plan safe, regular activity and explain how it supports health.