Building Strength and Resilience

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

• adaptability
• critical thinking
• initiative
• problem solving
• prototyping
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 6 Health and Physical Education

Students can:

• apply strategies to manage emotions and analyse how emotional responses influence interactions (AC9HP6P06)
• investigate how different movement concepts related to effort, space, time, objects and people can be applied to improve movement outcomes (AC9HP6M03). 

Year 6 Mathematics

Students can:

• convert between common metric units of length, mass and capacity; choose and use decimal representations of metric measurements relevant to the context of a problem (AC9M6M01).

Relevant parts of Year 6 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: 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. 

Relevant parts of Year 6 Mathematics achievement standards: Students use all 4 operations with decimals and connect decimal representations of measurements to the metric system. Students convert between common units of length, mass and capacity. 

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

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion and supervise physical activities.

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
• Strength Test Cards
• student devices for individual use
• Student Worksheet (1 per student)
• Weekly Training Planner
• weights
• whiteboard

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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