Health and physical education / Foundation / Movement and Physical Activity / Understanding movement

Curriculum content descriptions

Identify and describe how their body moves in relation to effort, space, time, objects and people (ACPMP011)

Elaborations
  • moving at different speeds and in different directions with others in a designated area
  • demonstrating the difference between personal space and general space in physical activities
  • describing body positions when performing a range of different movements
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Sports,  Shape (Dance),  Spatial levels (Dance),  Human movement,  Movement pathways

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