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Hidden forest expedition

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Lesson Purpose:

  1. A navigation exercise involving a canoe and hike through rainforest. 

  2. To find a trail using local maps. 

  3. To highlight the need for co-operation, trust, teamwork and effective communication.

  4. To work as part of a team.

Year Level:

Year 6 - 12

Time Needed:

7 hrs

Instructor's Skills:

TEEC staff member

General Comments:

Canoe and hike. Challenging navigation activity which will require group cooperation and decision making skills integrated with map and compass skills.

 

Australian Curriculum:

During the course of this activity it may be possible to target a number of the "Content Descriptions" across year levels six upwards.

 

Year 6

Health and Physical Education

Personal, social and community health

Being healthy, safe and active

  • Examine how identities are influenced by people and places.
  • Plan and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing.

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

  • Explore how participation in outdoor activities supports personal and community health and wellbeing and creates connections to the natural and built environment. 

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.
 
 
 
 

Year 7/8

Health and Physical Education

Personal, social and community health

Being healthy, safe and active

  • Practise and apply strategies to seek help for themselves or others.

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. 

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

Health and Physical Education

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.
  • Examine the impact of changes and transitions on relationships.
  • 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

  • Plan and evaluate new and creative interventions that promote their own and others; connection to community and natural and built environments. 

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.
 
 

Year 11/12

Physical Education

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

  • Apply and integrate information in the performance of physical responses.
  • Analyse and apply performance strategies as individuals, and in groups and teams.
  • Select, interpret, analyse and manipulate information related to the focus areas and performance in physical activities.

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 surrounding performance in physical activities.
  • Develop personal esteem through involvement in physical activity.
  • Value collaborative and shared learning in physical activity.

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Last reviewed 18 February 2020
Last updated 18 February 2020