NS ASK Project Reports
If you’d like to take a deeper dive into the background of the NS ASK Project, you’re in the right spot. Please note English documents have a blue button and French documents have a black outlined button.
This document contains a summary of the findings of the NS ASK Project Year Two Evaluation Report. It focuses on the conditions required to ensure the sustained integration of physically active learning as reported by the teachers and administrators who participated in year two of the NS ASK Pilot.
This report documents the ways in which physical activity and outdoor learning were incorporated into school days for schools in the the Oslo Education Authority as experienced by the NS ASK Project Lead during a research trip in 2017. This is where the journey of the implementation of physically active learning in Nova Scotia began.
This report documents the results of the NS ASK Pilot year one evaluation.
Journal Club
Here you can dig into some of the academic studies related to physically active learning. We’ll do our best to keep this current! Lots more to come here!
Daly‑Smith et al., (2021). Behaviours that prompt primary school teachers to adopt and implement physically active learning: a meta synthesis of qualitative evidence. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 18:151 Link to online source.
Foran et al., (2017). Focusing elementary students with active classrooms: exploring teachers’ perceptions of self-initiated practices. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, Volume 10, Number 1, pp. 61-69(9). Link to online source.
Lerum et al., (2021). The Conforming, The Innovating and The Connecting Teacher: A qualitative study of why teachers in lower secondary school adopt physically active learning. Teaching and Teacher Education, v. 105. Link to online source.