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Health and physical education / Year 5 and 6 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Contributing to healthy and active communities

Curriculum content descriptions

Explore how participation in outdoor activities supports personal and community health and wellbeing and creates connections to natural and built environments (ACPPS059)

Elaborations
  • exploring ways in which people can connect with other members of their community through participating in physical activities in natural settings and built environments
  • discussing how a connection to the local community, environment or special places can influence personal and community health and wellbeing
  • discussing how access to natural and built environments can help or hinder participation in physical activities
  • exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander understandings of special places and the connection of these places to physical activities
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Human settlements,  Wellbeing,  Physical activity,  Community cooperation

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