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AC9HP4M04: Year 3 Health and Physical Education Content Descriptor – Making active choices
AC9HP4M04 Year 3 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP4M04 – Year 3 Health and Physical Education: Making active choices

Strand
Movement and physical activity
Substrand
Making active choices

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

participate in physical activities to explore how their body feels and describe how regular physical activity helps the body stay healthy and well

Elaborations

  • participating in physical activity circuits to explore how the body feels before, during and after participation
  • performing warm-up and stretching routines to understand how to prepare the body to be active
  • investigating the influence of regular physical activity on quality of sleep, concentration and overall wellbeing

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.