Lesson Purpose :
As a group, work through a number of obstacles and challenges within the boundaries of the Centre.
To highlight the need for co-operation, trust, teamwork and effective communication.
To encourage the individual to identify their own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of others.
To work as part of a team.
Time Needed :
Between 30 mins and 2 hrs depending on how many elements are attempted.
Year Levels :
Instructors :
TEEC Staff and Class Teacher.
General Comments
A great way to get your students to think and work together.
Australian Curriculum :
During the course of this activity it may be possible to target a number of the "Content Descriptions" across year levels four upwards.
Year 4
| Personal, social and community health |
Being healthy, safe and active -
Explore how success, challenge and failure strengthen identities.
- Describe and apply strategies that can be used in situations that make them feel uncomfortable or unsafe.
- Identify and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing.
Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing Describe how respect, empathy and valuing diversity can positively influence relationships. Investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength.
Contributing to healthy and active communities Describe strategies to make the classroom and playground healthy, safe and active spaces. Participate in outdoor games and activities to examine how participation promotes a connectionbetween the community, natural and built environments, and health and wellbeing.
|
Movement and physical activity |
Moving our body - Practise and refine fundamental movement skills in a variety of movement sequences and situations.
- Practise and apply movement concepts and strategies with and without equipment.
- Examine the benefits of physical activity to health and wellbeing.
Understanding movement |
Learning through movement - Adopt inclusive practices when participating in physical activities.
- Apply innovative and creative thinking in solving movement challenges.
- Apply basic rules and scoring systems, and demonstrate fair play when participating in physical activities.
|
Year 5/6
Personal, social and community health |
Being healthy, safe and active Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing - Practise skills to establish and manage relationships.
- Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships.
Contributing to healthy and active communities - Investigate the role of preventative health in promoting and maintaining health, safety and wellbeing for individuals and their communities.
- Explore how participation in outdoor activities supports personal and community healath and wellbeing and creates connections to the natural and built environment.
- Identify how valuing diversity positively influences the wellbeing of the community.
|
| Movement and physical activity |
Moving our body - Practise specialised movement skills and apply them in a variety of movement sequences and situations.
- Propose and apply movement concepts and strategies with and without equipment.
Understanding movement - Participate in physical activities designed to enhance fitness, and discuss the impact regular participation can have on health and wellbeing.
- Manipulate and modify the elements of effort, space, time, objects and people to perform movement sequences.
Learning through movement - Participate positively in groups and teams by encouraging others and negotiating roles and responsibilities.
- Apply critical and creative thinking processes in order to generate and assess solutions to movement challenges.
- Demonstrate ethical and fair play that aligns with the rules when participating in a range of physical activities.
|
Year 7/8
Personal, social and community health |
Being healthy, safe and active - Practise and apply strategies to seek help for themselves or others.
- Investigate and select strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing.
Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing - Investigate the benefits of relationships and examine their impact on their own and others' health and wellbeing.
- Analyse factors that influence emotions, and develop strategies to demonstrate empathy and sensitivity.
Contributing to healthy and active communities - Plan and implement strategies for connecting to natural and built environments to promote the health and wellbeing of their communities.
- Investigate the benefits to individuals and communities of valuing diversity and promoting inclusivity.
|
Movement and physical activity |
Moving our body - Use feedback to improve body control and coordination when performing specialised movement skills in a variety of situations.
- Practise, apply and transfer movement concepts and strategies with and without equipment.
Understanding movement - Participate in physical activities that develop health-related and skill-related fitness components, and create and monitor personal fitness plans.
- Demonstrate and explain how the elements of effort, space, time, objects and people can enhance movement sequences.
Learning through movement - Practise and apply personal and social skills when undertaking a range of roles in physical activities.
- Evaluate and justify reasons for decisions and choices of action when solving movement challenges.
- Modify rules and scoring systems to allow fair play, safety and inclusive participation.
|
Year 9/10
Personal, social and community health |
Being healthy, safe and active Evaluate factors that shape identities and critically analyse how individuals impact the identities of others. Propose, practise and evaluate responses in situations where external influences may impact on their ability to make healthy and safe choices.
Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing Investigate how empathy and ethical decision making contribute to respectful relationships. Evaluate situations and propose appropriate emotional responses and then reflect on possible outcomes of different responses.
Contributing to healthy and active communities |
Movement and physical activity |
Moving our body Perform and refine specialised movement skills in challenging movement situations through providing and applying feedback. Develop, implement and evaluate movement concepts and strategies for successful outcomes with and without equipment.
Understanding movement Analyse the impact of effort, space, time, objects and people when composing and performing movement sequences.
Learning through movement Devise, implement and refine strategies demonstrating leadership and collaboration skills when working in groups or teams. Transfer understanding from previous movement experiences to create solutions to movement challenges. Reflect on how fair play and ethical behaviour can influence the outcomes of movement activies.
|
Year 11/12
Acquiring - Demonstrate through physical responses an understanding of safety, rules, learned and rehearsed skills, tactics and strategies.
- Identify, describe, recall and comprehend facts, definitions, terminology and principles as they relate to various contexts through the study, observation of, and engagement in, physical activity.
|
Applying |
Evaluating - Modify physical responses based on informed reflective decision making in varying physical performance environments.
- Initiate change and demonstrate solutions in team and group physical performance.
- Evaluate, predict and justify probable and possible outcomes of actions, plans and decisions.
- Make decisions about strategies to communicate ideas.
|
Attitudes and Values - Experience the enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and social interaction that is possible through engagement and informed performance in physical activity.
- Recognise the aspects of involvement in physical activity that provide personal enjoyment and satisfaction.
- Acknowledge the range of values and attitudes surounding performance in physical activities.
- Develop personal esteem through involvement in physical activity.
- Value collaborative and shared learning in physical activity
|