Lesson Purpose :
To challenge oneself to swing from a 'giant' height.
Listen and follow instructions.
Put on the necessary equipment (harness, helmet, protective glasses) without adult intervention.
To work as part of a team.
Time Needed :
2 hours for a class sized group
Year Levels:
Instructor :
All Instructors will meet the requirements of the Education Queensland Curriculum Activity Risk Assessment Guidelines (CARAs)
General Comments :
A very safe but thrilling ride. Allows everyone in the group to support the individual.
Australian Curriculum
During the course of this activity it may be possible to target a number of the "Content Descriptions" across year levels five upwards.
Year 5/6
| Personal, social and community health |
Being healthy, safe and active - 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 healath and wellbeing and creates connections to the natural and built environment.
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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 behaviour and fair play that aligns with the rules when participating in a range of physical activities.
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Personal, social and community health |
Being healthy, safe and active - 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.
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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.
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Year 9/10
| Personal, social and community health |
Being healthy, safe and active 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.
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| 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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