Be Aware as a Responsible Citizen
This section will help you discover the answer to the following questions:
- What can you do to stay active and be healthy?
- How can you use The City of Calgary recreation sites to get active?
How can you use City of Calgary recreation sites to get active and plan a day of fun?
First of all, choose a summer and a winter activity that you can participate in after school or on the weekend. It could be an activity that you could do on your own or with a group of friends or your family.
Once you have your activities, you may want to find out which recreation facilities are near you and what activities are offered there. So, figure out the quadrant of the city you live in. For example, Sally chose swimming and she lives in Canyon Meadows which is in the SW quadrant of Calgary. She searched Canyon Meadows pools and found the online Canyon Meadow Aquatic and Fitness swimming pool facility guide.
There are many ways to find out this information... Here is one suggestion:
Click here for the The City of Calgary Recreation Program Guide to locate information about your chosen activity and the quadrant of the city you live in. Find out the schedule, cost, and any other information you may need to participate in this activity.
Even more information about these facilities and the activities available can be found at The City of Calgary Recreation Facilities site.
Don't Just Sit There!
There's never any reason to be bored in the City of Calgary. Watch the videos below to hear what others do to have fun. You might be amazed to find out what's available. So what about you? What can you do in Calgary?
Act as a Responsible Citizen – Think Challenge #1
Infomercial
Create an “INFOMERCIAL” (video advertisement) to share with others advertizing what can be done at Calgary recreation facilities. Your job is to promote a new activity, game or sport – encourage others to participate!
Act as a Responsible Citizen – Think Challenge #2
Keep a Class Log/Blog
Have you ever thought about all the different facilities that you, your family, and your friends use in the city of Calgary?
Can you motivate your class to design and create a wall chart or an electronic class blog where everyone writes down activities, games and sports they do in the evenings, on weekends and on holidays. Leave room so that students (and teachers) can comment about their activities. Encourage a student each week to make a short presentation about an activity he or she did.
How could you take this information and display your findings about the most frequently used facilities, new activities discovered, and the positive health benefits that were achieved in your class?
Act as a Responsible Citizen – Think Challenge #3
30-60-90
Did you know that Health Canada recommends that you should be getting at least 90 minutes of quality physical activity every day? The Provincial Board of Education only mandates that you get 30 minutes a day at school. How are you getting the other 60 minutes?
- Design an obstacle course for your school gym using only the equipment available in your school equipment room. You can ask your teacher to help you inventory the equipment you might need. We would suggest you look for items such as pylons, skipping ropes and gym mats, but don’t limit yourself.
- Draw the layout of your school gym.
- Draw how you would set up the equipment so that all the students in your class could participate at the same time for 30 minutes. You might consider alternating movement activities such as running, jumping and skipping with stationary activities such as push ups or ball tosses.
- Consider and label how you are making sure that your obstacle course is safe. Some suggestions might be to use mats up against walls, and to set up stations with enough distance for participants to move without hitting anyone else. There must be a description on or with your diagram indicating how you are making sure your course is safe.
- Create an activity plan that shows how you will make up the other 60 minutes of activity during the week, and all 90 minutes of activity on the weekends when your school is closed. Your plan has to have at least three days of activities, including one weekend day. For at least one of the activities on your plan, you must use a City of Calgary facility. For a list of facilities and possible activities, go to http://www.calgary.ca/recreation.