Jump Rope for Heart – Counting Beats

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

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• problem-solving
• reflection
• social skills

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions

Health and Physical Education, Foundation: 

Students learn to:

• practise fundamental movement skills in minor game and play situations (AC9HPFM01)

Health and Physical Education, Years 1 and 2:

Students learn to:

• practise fundamental movement skills and apply them in a variety of movement situations (AC9HP2M01) 

Mathematics, Foundation: 

Students learn to:

• quantify and compare collections to at least 20 using counting and explain or demonstrate reasoning (AC9MFN03)

Mathematics, Year 1:

Students learn to:

• add and subtract numbers within 20, using physical and virtual materials, part-part-whole knowledge to 10 and a variety of calculation strategies (AC9M1N04)

Mathematics, Year 2:

Students learn to:

• add and subtract one- and two-digit numbers, representing problems using number sentences, and solve using part-part-whole reasoning and a variety of calculation strategies (AC9M2N04) 

Relevant parts achievement standards 

Health and Physical Education:

Students apply fundamental movement skills to manipulate objects and space in a range of movement situations. Students apply fundamental movement skills in different movement situations and explain how they move with objects in space effectively. 

Mathematics:

Students represent practical situations that involve quantifying, equal sharing, adding to and taking away from collections to at least 10. They solve problems involving addition and subtraction of numbers to 20 and use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving addition, subtraction, equal sharing and grouping, using calculation strategies. Students recall and demonstrate proficiency with addition and subtraction facts within 20 and multiplication facts for twos.

NSW Syllabus outcomes

Health and Physical Education:

A student

• demonstrates fundamental movement skills and participates with others in physical activities (PHE-MSP-01)
• demonstrates fundamental movement skills and fair play in physical activities (PH1-MSP-01)

Mathematics:

A student

• demonstrates an understanding of how whole numbers indicate quantity (MAE-RWN-01)
• reads numerals and represents whole numbers to at least 20 (MAE-RWN-02)
• reasons about number relations to model addition and subtraction by combining and separating, and comparing collections (MAE-CSQ-01)
• represents the relations between the parts that form the whole, with numbers up to 10 (MAE-CSQ-02)
• uses number bonds and the relationship between addition and subtraction to solve problems involving partitioning (MA1-CSQ-01)
• gathers and organises data, displays data in lists, tables and picture graphs (MA1-DATA-01)
• reasons about representations of data to describe and interpret the results (MA1-DATA-02)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Numeracy

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – The teacher must facilitate class discussions and activities, as well as scaffold and model counting techniques.

UN SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all ages 

Target 3.4: By 2030, reduce by one-third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being.

• Counters or counting objects for physical counting
• Counting beats activity sheet 
• Device for timing 1-minute intervals 
• Number line
• Pencils
• Picture of a heart 
• Skipping ropes 
• Whiteboard and markers

Jump Rope for Heart is the primary school skipping challenge that turns kids into Heart Heroes - everyday superheroes who are leading the fight against heart disease. In addition to moving more and having fun, our Heart Heroes raise money to help fund life-saving research that has the power to save Aussie hearts.

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