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
Curriculum links
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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 Thinking, Literacy, 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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