Healthy Bodies and Healthy Minds

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

• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• empathy
• ethical understanding
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 5 and 6, Health and Physical Education

• explain how identities can be influenced by people and places, and how we can create positive self-identities (AC9HP6P01)
• apply strategies to manage emotions and analyse how emotional responses influence interactions (AC9HP6P06)
• propose and explain strategies to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour levels in their lives (AC9HP6M06).

Relevant parts of Year 5 and 6 achievement standards: Students explain how different factors influence identities. They propose strategies to manage emotions, developmental changes and transitions. Students propose strategies to promote physical participation that enhances health, fitness and wellbeing.

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

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion and provide examples.

UN SDG 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

• Target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.

• device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• student access to individual digital devices such as iPads, tablets or laptops
• Student Worksheet (1 per student)
• 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.

You can cheer on Australia’s best across the screens of 7 and 7Plus from 23 July 2026.