Health and Physical Education / Year 3 and 4 / Movement and physical activity / Moving our bodies

Curriculum content descriptions

apply and adapt movement strategies to achieve movement outcomes (AC9HP4M02)

Elaborations
  • planning and performing strategies to be successful in a range of minor and small-sided games such as tag and dodge games, target games and net/court games
  • demonstrating how movement strategies can be adapted to create scoring opportunities in invasion games, target games, net/court games, and striking and fielding games
  • manipulating centre of gravity to enhance stability as they perform a range of balance activities and explaining how centre of gravity and base of support influence stability
  • evaluating the outcome of a game tactic that has been adapted to improve scoring options using set criteria
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Fundamental movement skills,  Movement sequences,  Problem solving

Downloadable

Playing for life activity cards

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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