Balance, Strength and Flexibility in Action

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creative thinking
• curiosity
• initiative
• problem solving
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 3 Health and Physical Education

Students can:

• refine and apply fundamental movement skills in new movement situations (AC9HP4M01).

Year 3 Mathematics

Students can:

• recognise and use the relationship between formal units of time including days, hours, minutes and seconds to estimate and compare the duration of events (AC9M3M03) 
• acquire data for categorical and discrete numerical variables to address a question of interest or purpose by observing, collecting and accessing data sets; record the data using appropriate methods including frequency tables and spreadsheets (AC9M3ST01).

Relevant parts of Year 3 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students apply fundamental movement skills and demonstrate movement concepts across a range of situations. They adapt movement strategies to enhance movement outcomes. They demonstrate fair play and inclusion through a range of roles in movement contexts.

Relevant part of Year 3 Mathematics achievement standards: Students estimate and compare measures of duration using formal units of time. Students record, represent and compare data they have used. 

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Literacy, Numeracy, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion, set up obstacle course, and assist with recording times.

UN SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

• Target 4.1: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education, leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.

• device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• Gymnastics Skills Activity Sheet
• stopwatch
• Warm-up Card Deck
• Weekly Training Planner

These resources have been created with the support of the Australian Commonwealth Games Team, via Commonwealth Games Australia.

The Australian Commonwealth Games Team are set to take on the athletes of he world at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games from next year, and together the more than 250 athletes in green and gold aim to be the top nation at the Games in terms of gold and overall medals won, the number of medallists, and the number of sports winning medals.

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