AC9HP4P10
Years 3 to 4
Health and Physical Education
AC9HP4P10 | Years 3 to 4 Health and Physical Education: Making healthy and safe choices
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor investigate and apply behaviours that contribute to their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing
Strand
Personal, social and community health
Substrand
Making healthy and safe choices
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 3 to 4 Health and Physical Education. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration identifying how medications and other substances can be stored safely in the home and at school
- • Elaboration exploring the benefits of following eating patterns that reflect The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating, and investigating nutritional information about foods
- • Elaboration discussing the importance of a sense of belonging and connection in promoting mental health and wellbeing
- • Elaboration exploring benefits of regular physical activity and identifying opportunities when they can be active at school, at home and in the community
- • Elaboration explaining how characters in texts take responsibility for their own and others’ safety in a range of situations, including water and road environments
- • Elaboration exploring recommendations around time spent on screen-based activities in the Australian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Young People and discussing ways to create or maintain a healthier balance
- • Elaboration identifying ways they can change their behaviours to support the sustainability of the Earth’s systems; for example, recycling or composting systems to minimise waste in the school, and community fruit and vegetable gardens to create healthy and sustainable lunches or snacks
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- • Elaboration practising strategies for enhancing mental wellbeing such as positive self-talk, mindfulness and meditation
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Read the full Years 3 to 4 Health and Physical Education achievement standard