Footy Fit - Nutrition

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Years 3 & 4 Health and Physical Education:

• Identify and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS036)
• Discuss and interpret health information and messages in the media and internet (ACPPS039)

Years 5 & 6 Health and Physical Education:

• Plan and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS054)
• Recognise how media and important people in the community influence personal attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours (ACPPS057)
• Investigate the role of preventive health in promoting and maintaining health, safety and wellbeing for individuals and their communities (ACPPS058)

Syllabus outcomes: PHS2.12, PHS3.12, SLS2.13, SLS3.13

General capabilities: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability.

Relevant parts of Years 3 & 4 achievement standards: 
Students interpret health messages and discuss the influences on healthy and safe choices. They understand the benefits of being healthy and physically active. They describe the connections they have to their community and identify local resources to support their health, wellbeing, safety and physical activity.

Relevant parts of Years 5 & 6 achievement standards: 
Students describe their own and others’ contributions to health, physical activity, safety and wellbeing

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge – HPE – Years 3-6

Time required: 80 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussions, coordinate games.

• Australian Guide to Healthy Eating – poster-sized copy or digital copy
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Device capable of researching on a website – one per student
• Food Item Images – one image per student
• Glycemic Index Chart – digital copy
• Graph of Energy Release – digital copy
• Healthy Lunchbox Template – five copies
• Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge Tokens (from Lesson 1)
• Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge Game Plan (from Lesson 1 or 2)
• Volkswagen Footy Fit Stadium Scoreboard (from Lesson 1)

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

• Adaptability
• Collaboration
• Critical thinking
• Digital literacy

The Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge is a unit of work designed in collaboration with the Sydney Swans to promote health and wellbeing amongst students in years 3 to 6. It is designed to align with, and provide further depth to, the in-schools Volkswagen Footy Fit program for years 2 to 6.