Health and physical education / Year 1 and 2 / Movement and Physical Activity / Learning through movement

Curriculum content descriptions

Identify rules and fair play when participating in physical activities (ACPMP032)

Elaborations
  • explaining why rules are needed in games and physical activities
  • demonstrating turn-taking and sharing equipment when participating in minor games
  • explaining how rules contribute to fair play and applying them in group activities
  • talking about how and when classmates and others have demonstrated fair play
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Fair play,  Sports rules

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Playing for life activity cards (F-2)

The cards include a variety of games designed to develop the skills of a range of sports and to encourage children to have fun and get active by focusing on skills not drills. The activities are based on the Game Sense approach, with the objective to develop in school-aged children a love of physical activity that will ...

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Yulunga: tarnambai

Although not a universal activity, athletics-type events were common. On Tiwi (Bathurst) Island the children collected the seed heads of the ‘spring rolling grass’ (Spinifex hirsutis) that grew on the sand hills near the coast. These were taken to the beach and released. The children allowed these to be blown along by the ...

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Yulunga: kangaroo

Imitation activities were a favourite and popular activity for children everywhere. In one activity children would copy the actions of the kangaroo. This is a jumping relay race based on the actions of a kangaroo jumping. The Yulunga: Traditional Indigenous Games resource was developed to provide all Australians with a ...