Health and Physical Education / Foundation / Movement and physical activity / Moving our bodies

Curriculum content descriptions

experiment with different ways of moving their body safely and manipulating objects and space (AC9HPFM02)

Elaborations
  • suggesting and testing different ways to move in a playing space or different ways to use equipment and objects, and making judgements about which are most effective and which movements and equipment they prefer
  • persisting with challenges and demonstrating resilience while moving their body in a range of situations
  • participating in games that require them to be aware of personal safety in relation to game boundaries, rules and safe use of equipment
  • manipulating equipment in a range of different movement situations and tasks, including in minor games, imaginative play and when practising fundamental movement skills
  • demonstrating spatial awareness when moving around and through indoor and outdoor (natural) environments confidently and safely
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

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Work sample Foundation Year Health and Physical Education: Rolling rally

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the Health and Physical Education achievement standards for Foundation. In this video, two students select and mark boundaries of the playing area and identify that the markers form the boundary of the game. They perform two-handed strikes ...

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Yulunga: traditional Indigenous games

This is a collection of Indigenous games suitable for a range of ages, abilities and backgrounds. Students can learn and experience aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures while developing physical fitness and skills. Each game includes information on the equipment needed, game play rules, and scoring. ...

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Traffic lights football

This game focuses on soccer skills and ball control. Students respond to called-out instructions, controlling a soccer ball using different ball skills and movements. The resource includes an outline of what equipment is required and how to set the game up, with an accompanying visual. There are simple instructions on how ...

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Fundamental movement skills in action

This downloadable resource supports teachers to explicitly teach 12 fundamental movement skills, with 12 cards for each of the 12 skills numbered from 1 (easiest) to 12 (hardest). Each card outlines activities for one PE lesson including a warm-up and activities to teach and practise a skill. Each card provides a list of ...

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How can I use tactics to be successful in games? – Early Stage 1

In this unit students test, apply and combine various tactics incorporating movement, space, time, equipment and rules to improve their chance of success in territory games. They use movement skills to solve games-based problems. For example, they may apply various movement skills to a game situation and evaluate which ...

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How can I solve problems while moving? - Early Stage 1

In this unit, students will test and create solutions to a variety of movement challenges through modifying movement sequences and games. For example, they may explore different ways to propel an object accurately within the playing area.

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Mr McGee's adventure. Integrated program

Based on the picture book Mr McGee Goes to Sea, lessons focus on: investigating sea animals; the weather and materials used for umbrellas; classifying and describing apples; working with words; making boats and learning about protective behaviours.

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Classroom warm up activities

This sequence of guided dance warm-up videos is led by The Australian Ballet’s Dance Education Ensemble. The videos are designed to get students moving and encourage safe dance practice in the classroom. The videos are self-explanatory and can be used in sequence or individually as part of movement based activities in dance ...

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Big rain coming. Integrated program

Based on Big Rain Coming, lessons include: investigating water places; observing and recording weather; Sun investigation; exploring time; working with words; creating a mural; choral reading; learning about hydration; and home talk/school talk.

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Healthy eating: integrated program

Based on the books Up, Down, and Around and Vegetables, lessons include describing vegetables, using positional vocabulary, investigating seeds, creating a vegetable garden, identifying healthy/unhealthy foods and creating a mural and dance.

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Splish splash

In Splish splash, students respond to the stimulus of water to create dance movements and sequences, individually and collaboratively. Throughout the sequence of lessons they develop body skills, expressive movement quality and imagination in using the elements of dance.

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Brain break bops

Brain break bops are interoception activities(mindful body awareness activities) for pre-school and early primary school students. Building interoceptive awareness (feeling more connected with your body and your bodily signals) requires students to actively notice changes in their body state. This series of two-minute animated ...

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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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Being resilient is brilliant

This is a multistage unit of learning focused on empowering students to develop resilience that can support them to respond positively to different situations.

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Let’s get moving – C2C Health and Physical Education Year F (Prep) Unit 1

In this teaching unit, students examine and apply rules that keep them safe during physical activity. They develop the fundamental movement skills of running, hopping, jumping and galloping and apply them in activities and games. Students apply fundamental movement to solve movement challenges. The resource includes a unit ...

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Who wants to play? – C2C Health and Physical Education Year F (Prep) Unit 3

In this teaching unit, students demonstrate personal and social skills to include others and describe their feelings after participating in a range of active games. This package includes a unit plan, topic outlines and a video to help teachers unpack the content as well as resources, an assessment task and guide to ...

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Animal Groove – C2C Health and Physical Education Year F (Prep) Unit 4

In this teaching unit, students will perform fundamental movement skills to music. They will describe how their body responds to movement in a performance combining the elements of movement. This package includes a unit plan, topic outlines and a video to help teachers unpack the content as well as resources, an assessment ...

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Catch that bean – C2C Health and Physical Education Year F (Prep) Unit 2

In this teaching unit, students develop the object control skills of rolling, catching, bouncing, throwing and kicking through active participation in activities, games and movement challenges. They use personal and social skills to follow rules and cooperate with others. This package includes a unit plan, topic outlines ...

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Moving me

The unit Moving me develops the students’ physical competencies and awareness of the body in time and space. Students are introduced to shape, locomotor activity and the use of space. They experiment with everyday movements, linking these together in a sequence experience being an audience member and describe what they see.

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Mr McGee's adventure: safe adventures. Health and Physical Education

Based on the book Mr McGee Goes to Sea, lessons focus on developing protective behaviours through distinguishing between safe and unsafe situations and identifying emotions and early warning signs in unsafe situations.