Overview

Students will participate, experience and discover the need for physical activity in a variety of contexts. They will use reliable resources to draw conclusions about how their own levels of physical activity compare to current physical activity guidelines for maintaining health. Students will propose strategies to improve or maintain their current physical activity levels.

Learning intentions

During these lessons, students will:

• identify suitable physical activities based on the context they are in

• participate in suitable physical activity

• analyse their levels of physical activity compared to the Australia’s Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines

• propose strategies to improve or maintain their current physical activity levels in line with the current physical activity guidelines.

Success criteria for the overall sequence

• Recognise and participate in appropriate physical activity for their context.

• Recognise and record the body’s response to physical activity.

•  Analyse their own physical activity levels to propose strategies that maintain or improve their health and wellbeing.

Syllabus outcomes

• PD4-6 recognises how contextual factors influence attitudes and behaviours and proposes strategies to enhance health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity

• PD4-8 plans for and participates in activities that encourage health and a lifetime of physical activity

All outcomes and content referred to in this unit come from the PDHPE K-10 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2018.

Students will explore the definitions of health and how they have changed over time to develop your own definition of health. Thinking about the current health situation, they will adopt the roles of key decision makers to recognise who is responsible for health and build an understanding of how responsibility filters down to ensure health and wellbeing for the wider community.  

• PD4-6 recognises how contextual factors influence attitudes and behaviours and proposes strategies to enhance health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity

• PD4-8 plans for and participates in activities that encourage health and a lifetime of physical activity

Students will explore the difference between health and illness to address misunderstandings about mental health and promote positive attitudes. They will investigate self care and action which can be taken to improve and maintain physical and mental health. These will be considered critically to compare whether perceptions and management of mental health and physical health are the same or different.  

• PD4-7 investigates health practices, behaviours and resources to promote health, safety, wellbeing and physically active communities 

• PD4-8 plans for and participates in activities that encourage health and a lifetime of physical activity 

Students will explore the difference between physical and mental fitness. They will learn about the components of physical and mental fitness and participate in activities to develop these components.   

• PD4-7 investigates health practices, behaviours and resources to promote health, safety, wellbeing and physically active communities 

• PD4-8 plans for and participates in activities that encourage health and a lifetime of physical activity 

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