AC9HP4M06 Year 3 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP4M06 – 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

explore recommendations about physical activity and sedentary behaviours, and discuss strategies to achieve the recommendations

Elaborations

• participating in a range of physical activities and investigating opportunities to incorporate these into lunchtime activities to encourage students to be active at lunchtimes
• examining the benefits of regular physical activity, including the influence on sleep, concentration and wellbeing
• exploring physical activity and screen-usage time recommendations in the Australian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Young People and proposing how they can meet these recommendations

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.