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

Curriculum content descriptions

Investigate the role of preventive health in promoting and maintaining health, safety and wellbeing for individuals and their communities (ACPPS058)

Elaborations
  • investigating practices that help promote and maintain health and wellbeing, such as eating a diet reflecting The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating, meeting recommendations for daily physical activity and creating connections with others to enhance social health
  • proposing and implementing actions and protective behaviours that promote safe participation in physical activities
  • discussing the importance of social support and a sense of belonging in promoting mental health and wellbeing
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Safety,  Wellbeing,  Health promotion

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Vitamania: meet the vitamins

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Online

Future foods: Science and sustainability Years 5-6

This study guide explores the modern practices in sustainable farming and its role in the future of food production. It investigates the challenges Australian cattle and sheep farmers’ face and how science can help them to meet the challenge of sustainably feeding the world with a growing population and climate variability. ...

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Years 5 and 6: Resilience, rights and respectful relationships

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Look both ways- rail safety resource

A Minecraft platform game for students to understand the safe behaviours they should adopt when using crossings at tram platforms and stops. Recommended for independent gameplay, students will need to know how to move around effectively in Minecraft and interact with Non-Playing Characters (NPCs). Students are tasked with ...

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Good citizenship

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Enhancing Student Resilience through Creating Butterfly Gardens

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Fire in ceremony

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Safe Crossing Creator - Minecraft: Education Edition

A game for students to understand how to be safe when using railway and tram crossings. Students will read stories of characters, interpreting the unsafe behaviour shown and creating/placing a sign to remind all crossing users of the safe behaviour. As a learning artefact students produce a report detailing the unsafe ...

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Assess your classroom environment

Not every classroom is specifically designed to respond to the needs of all students. Using this interactive questionnaire, audit a classroom environment and create a task list of simple changes that can be made to create a more space inclusive for neurodivergent students.

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Get ready to learn! Interoception and self-regulation

Interoception (mindful body awareness) refers to the perception, recognition and understanding of the internal physical states. These body signals can be understood as emotions and/or feelings which can then be responded to. Self-regulation is the ability to moderate or control emotions and actions in order to function ...