Jump Rope for Heart – My Healthy Community

Jump Rope for Heart – My Healthy Community

Lesson 7 of 7 in this unit

  • Foundation
  • Year 1 - 2
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Geography
  • Health and Physical Education
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Lesson summary

Discover various places and spaces that make a healthy community in your local area. Students will explore different locations, including natural, managed, or purpose-built spaces designed to promote health and wellbeing and why they are important. They will develop their map-drawing skills by creating a vibrant map of the healthy places in their local community.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • learn about the places we can go to in our local community that help keep us healthy.

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • create a basic map of their ‘health community’, representing places and features of their local area or neighbourhood
  • outline why some places in their local area or neighbourhood are important to build a heart healthy habit and wellbeing.

Lesson guides and printables

Lesson Plan
Activity Sheet
Places and Spaces Visual Explainer

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Lesson details

Skills

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

  • collaboration
  • communication
  • community engagement
  • cultural understanding
  • empathy
  • intercultural understanding
  • social skills

Curriculum Mapping

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description

Geography, Foundation:

Students learn about

  • the features of familiar places they belong to, why some places are special and how places can be looked after (AC9HSFK03)

Geography Year 1:

Students learn about

  • the natural, managed and constructed features of local places, and their location (AC9HS1K03

Geography, Year 2:

Students learn about

  • how places can be spatially represented in geographical divisions from local to regional to state/territory, and how people and places are interconnected across those scales (AC9HS2K03)

Relevant parts of Foundation achievement standards: Students recognise the features of familiar places, why some places are special to people and the ways they can care for them.

Relevant parts of Year 1 achievement standards: Students  identify the location and nature of the natural, managed and constructed features of local places, the ways places change, and how they can be cared for by people.

Relevant parts of Year 2 achievement standards: Students identify how people and places are interconnected both at local and broader scales.

NSW Syllabus outcomes

Human Society and its Environment

A student

  • identifies and locates places people connect with, using geographical information (HSE-GEO-01)
  • describes ways people connect to and care for places, water environments and each other, using geographical information (HS1-GEO-01)
  • explains how people care for Australia’s environments and participate in Australian society, using geographical information (HS2-GEO-01)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative ThinkingLiteracy, Numeracy, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – The teacher will need to facilitate class discussions, and scaffold and model map drawing techniques.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

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.

Resources Required

  • Activity Sheet - enlarged as an A3 paper map
  • Device capable of showing images and online maps
  • Images of general wellbeing spaces i.e. oval, parks, play equipment, swimming pools
  • Map of your local area (showing features of ovals, bike tracks, etc)
  • Marker pens and coloured pencils

Additional Info

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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