AC9HP4M01 Year 3 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP4M01 – Year 3 Health and Physical Education: Moving our bodies

Strand

Movement and physical activity

Substrand

Moving our bodies

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 Health and Physical Education provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

refine and apply fundamental movement skills in new movement situations

Elaborations

• performing activities where locomotor and object control skills are combined to complete a movement, task or challenge
• exploring and practising different techniques to propel objects towards a range of targets
• performing fundamental movement skills to demonstrate weight transference in different physical activities
• coordinating kicking with arm movements to move the body through the water using different types of strokes
• performing routines incorporating different jumping, landing and balancing techniques, and connecting movements to create a movement sequence

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASHPEY34

Year 3 Health and Physical Education Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 4, students identify influences that strengthen identities and describe strategies to manage emotions, changes and transitions. They apply skills and strategies to interact respectfully with others. They describe the influences that inclusion and stereotypes have on choices and actions. Students describe and apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies to keep themselves and others safe online and offline. They interpret health information to apply strategies to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. Students apply fundamental movement skills and demonstrate movement concepts across a range of situations. They adapt movement strategies to enhance movement outcomes. Students examine factors that influence participation and propose strategies to incorporate regular physical activity into their own and others’ lives. They demonstrate fair play and inclusion through a range of roles in movement contexts.