Pillar Completion Certificate

Create an action/movement game that could be used as a warm up for your class or 2025 Canada Games athletes. Example: Action game - Snap  Clap Stop! 

Develop a four minute (maximum) class video invitation for a 2025 Canada Games athlete to facetime with your learners. Use this worksheet to brainstorm your top 10 questions for the athlete. 

Arrange an Awesome Artifacts Museum! Have learners bring in a picture or item from their sports/games/family history and create a museum. See video of an athlete sharing their artifact. Have learners share their story in a museum format.

Create a pal for Gusty the Mascot, include a 2025 Canada Games sport, and sketch them both in action. Once complete, have the learner share their image with the class and discuss their artwork.

Audition to be Gusty’s sidekick! Learners can create a script and perform their audition for the class. Teachers can upload a one minute maximum video using the form on our website.  

Be sure to complete at least one activity in each of the five pillars to maximize your students' learning experience.

Watch how to set goals and learn how to goalset in four easy steps. Complete one of the following:

1. Write a four step sequence demonstrating something you did in the last 24 hours, ex: brush your teeth, make toast, feed a pet. 

2. Create a video showing you completing a goal in four easy steps.

‍Four Steps to Completing Our Goal [not including introduction and conclusion]

Write a persuasive/motivational letter (three paragraphs maximum) to a 2025 Canada Games Provincial or Territorial Team team of choice encouraging the players to have their best and most fun Games ever! 

Provide the class with the positive peeps sheet, so both the teacher and learner can share a better understanding of their baselines in sports. Share some of the goal setting and leadership tips of your students. 

Make a two minute (maximum) video clip or perform it live, where the learner(s) complete a task or goal using a 10 step sequence. The learner(s) will create their 10 step sequence by using words, images or text.

‍Example: doing exercises/stretches, or preparing to go on a sports trip.

Model a timeline that a 2025 Canada Games athlete could use for a full day of fitness, school, eating, workouts, etc. Use: The Ball is in Your Court

Be sure to complete at least one activity in each of the five pillars to maximize your students' learning experience.

Watch as a motivational tool for a class fitness challenge. Discuss exercises that can be done as a group in one, two or three minutes. Predict how many repetitions of the exercise the class could do in the chosen timeframe and record responses.
You can do this weekly or monthly if you want to do a class improvement challenge!

Choose a local restaurant menu and develop a healthy meal you would want to eat before competing in the 2025 Canada Games. Also look at the Canada Food Guide as you make your menu choices.

Play ‘Gusty’s Guess’. Using five hints, describe a food or piece of equipment from the 2025 Canada Games (ex: lacrosse stick, canoe, salad, chicken wrap, etc.) and have students actively listen in detail as you provide the hints. Only after hearing all five hints, ask the learner to draw what they think the educator has described. The educator then asks for responses before revealing the object. This can be repeated several times and classes can make a fun and artistic display of the drawn items.

Lead your class, via words, images, text or video, through a 10 step sequence of sharing a healthy recipe, or of preparing to go to a 2025 Canada Games event. Your goal is to do so in under three minutes. Challenge your class to create their own 10 step video.  

Play ‘Hot Handshakes’. Challenge the class, preferably in pairs, to create a cool handshake [eight moves maximum] that a 2025 Canada Games team could use at the Games.

See link of our demonstration

Be sure to complete at least one activity in each of the five pillars to maximize your students' learning experience.

Watch Canada in two minutes. Choose your favourite city and describe in 10 words why it would be great for a future Canada Games location. Translate (English to French/French to English) using words you know.

Explore Being Bilingual and brainstorm with your class five benefits of being bilingual. Create class posters of how being bilingual at the 2025 Games might make it more fun. 

Create a bilingual visitor map of your school including 10 key places around it (Ex. Playground, gymnasium, cafeteria, library) so that an athlete visiting from another province would be able to tour the school with ease. 

Make and narrate a video in french/english promoting why the learners favourite team or athlete might visit their school and home town. Post this video to: link here (and you never know who could show up!)

Record a one min maximum bilingual video inviting Gusty the Mascot to come to your class and share 2025 Canada Games activities and information.

Submit Your Video

Be sure to complete at least one activity in each of the five pillars to maximize your students' learning experience.

View Alex Newhook and Dawson Mercer Discuss Language and learn the basics of how to converse with athletes using Newfoundland and Labrador expressions. Ask class/participants for other fun phrases to write and put on display for a visiting athlete.

Play Hot Spot Debates. The educator or students will provide topics to be debated in rapid fire succession. Topics will be directly related to the 2025 Canada Games and can include: the sports included, age limits, length of game, best months to host summer or winter Games. Use a one minute timer for each topic. The students will raise hands and support or oppose a view adding their opinion each time until a topic is maxed out. 

See link of our demonstration

Design a bilingual poster that could be placed in any of the 2025 Canada Games venues. Think of the 17 pictograms, the venues, and the Canada Food Guide to help create your poster. Use 2025 Canada Games colours as your background poster theme.

Learn an Indigenous game at school. Find Indigenous games to learn with your class at: Indigenous games list and instructions. 

Watch The Hockey Jersey and complete any or all of the following activities:

• Print off a blank jersey and have the learner design their own for the 2025 Canada Games.

‍• Take a critical look at skin tones, hair, eyes, someone in the stands with a head scarf and discuss how amazing it is to see and learn from so many cultures.

• The story is Inclusive to 2SLGBTQAI learners because they could relate to one of the players who identifies as “they”, another player has two moms in the stands, etc. Discuss the diversity and inclusion topics highlighted in the book.

By completing the suggested above activities, you complete the curriculum
outcomes described in this document.