AC9HP6M04 Year 5 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP6M04 – Year 5 Health and Physical Education: Making active choices

Strand

Movement and physical activity

Substrand

Making active choices

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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 investigate the body’s reaction to different levels of intensity

Elaborations

• performing activities of different intensities and measuring breathing rate, heart rate and other body responses to categorise activities into low, moderate and high intensity
• designing and modelling different warm-up and cool-down routines for the class and discussing their importance for reducing the chance of injuries or soreness after activity
• participating in and designing physical activity opportunities that support their health and fitness goals

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASHPEY56

Year 5 Health and Physical Education Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 6, students explain how different factors influence identities. They propose strategies to manage emotions, developmental changes and transitions. They propose strategies to demonstrate respect, empathy and inclusion. They explain how stereotypes influence roles and responsibilities. Students explain how communication skills, protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies keep themselves and others safe online and offline. They analyse health information to refine strategies to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. Students refine and modify movement skills and apply movement concepts across a range of situations. They transfer movement strategies between situations and evaluate the impact on movement outcomes. Students propose strategies to promote physical activity participation that enhance health, fitness and wellbeing. They describe contributions they can make as a group and team member to support fair play and inclusion across a range of movement contexts.