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Health and physical education / Year 1 and 2 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

Curriculum content descriptions

Describe ways to include others to make them feel they belong (ACPPS019)

Elaborations
  • identifying and appreciating similarities and differences in people and groups
  • exploring how people feel when they are included and excluded from groups and activities
  • demonstrating appropriate language when encouraging others
  • demonstrating how to include others in physical activities when completing movement tasks or practising for performance
  • expressing appreciation and offering encouragement using a variety of communication techniques
  • talking about the role of kinship as an important part of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Marginalisation,  Friendship

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The Last Laugh

This imaginative digital text is an illustrated narrative for teachers to read aloud to students. It is about Monkey, and how she learns an important message about friendship. The resource includes a teaching sequence related to the Big Six components of literacy development (oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, ...

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Meeting at Kamay

This resource explores the perspectives of the Aboriginal people of Kamay Botany Bay and the men aboard the HMB Endeavour upon their meeting in 1770. It aims to help students understand the history of Australia's Aboriginal peoples and why stories of the past are important to all of us. This resource is one part of the ...

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Bear and Chook by the Sea

This learning object is designed around a series of videos with Lisa Shanahan, author, and Emma Quay, illustrator, including a reading experience of their collaborative work, Bear and Chook by the Sea. Taken as a whole, this sequence of lessons is a Stage 1 unit of work that results in students working in pairs to produce ...

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Cooperation

In this lesson, students will practice cooperation by working together for a common cause and sharing the benefits. They learn how it feels to help someone and to have someone help them. They also learn the importance of communication when cooperating and how to cooperate better at school and at home.

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Kindness

In this lesson, students explore ways they can show kindness and how others have shown them kindness. Extension activities about kindness can be used in art, drama and literature activities.

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Self-control

In this lesson, students learn about what it means to have self-control. They explore the ideas that self-control shows responsibility and independence and that having self-control helps one resist temptation. They practice self-control techniques. Extension activities about self regulation can be used in art, drama and ...

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Fairness

In this lesson, students will explain the purposes of rules and the consequences of breaking them. They explore how following rules can reflect qualities of good citizenship. Extension activities tease out other elements of this topic.

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Listening

In this lesson, students will practice the skills of taking turns, listening to others, and speaking clearly. They learn that listening enables you to better understand meaning, that listening is different from hearing and that listening requires mental concentration.

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Becoming a good friend

In this lesson, students will explore the qualities of being a good friend. Extension activities about respect can be used in art, drama, literature and physical education activities.

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Being responsible

In this lesson students will explore the idea that being responsible builds others’ trust in them and that there are consequences when they are not responsible. Students will learn that responsibilities are age-appropriate and explore strategies that can help them be more responsible.

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Integrity

In this lesson students will understand that integrity means always trying your best to do the right thing. They will explore the concept that integrity is a matter of personal choice and that looking at a situation from someone else’s perspective will help them to make a good choice. Extension activities about self respect ...

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Cybersmart Challenge

This resource includes teacher-led activities using animated videos to introduce students to key online safety issues including cyberbullying, protecting personal information and sharing images. There are three modules including videos, which can be used as stand-alone lessons or as a series.

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Mighty Heroes

This resource includes four short animated video chapters and supporting educator notes. Each one features a hero and their online safety superpower. The educator notes are designed to support discussions with students about the key online safety messages in each chapter.

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Role-play respect online

This classroom activity is designed to help students identify what communicating respectfully and fairly looks like online by role-playing in a range of scenarios.

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Years 1 and 2: Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships

This set of learning materials covers eight topics of Social and Emotional Learning across the Years and 2 levels of schooling. Topics include Emotional Literacy; Personal strengths; Positive Coping; Problem Solving; Stress Management; Help Seeking; Gender and Identity; and Positive Gender Relationships.

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Respectful Relationships: Teaching and Learning

Find comprehensive resources organised by stages of schooling including a scope and sequence, teaching and learning activities and links to resources. The activities provide explicit opportunities for developmentally appropriate learning about consent education, gender stereotypes and roles, keeping safe, respectful relationships ...

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Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud & Proud

This resource was curated in response to the theme of the 2024 NAIDOC week: Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud! The theme highlights the diverse achievements and knowledge passed down through generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The resource provides a series of curated, age-appropriate ...

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Work sample Year 1 and 2 Health and Physical Education: Emotional responses

This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Year 1 and 2 Health and Physical Education. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an ...

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Digital Citizenship Resources: Digital Wellbeing

Find resources about evaluating what should be shared online, learning more about the nature of in-app purchasing, assessing the value of playing a lot of video games, and support for students in the development of positive and assertive online skills.

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How to teach digital citizenship and online safety - Scope and sequence Australian curriculum

This resource provides links to lessons and activities at each level of schooling from Foundation to Year 10 in the area of online safety.