Jump Rope For Heart - Unclog My Heart

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)

Year 3 Science:

• Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things (ACSSU044)
• Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions (ACSHE051)

Year 4 Science:

• Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships (ACSHE061)
• Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions (ACSHE062)

Syllabus outcomes: PHS2.12, SLS2.13, PHS2.12, ST2-10LW, ST2-11LW, ST2-4WS

General capabilities: Personal and Social Capability

Relevant parts of Year 3 & 4 Health and Physical Education 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.

Relevant parts of Year 3 Science achievement standards: Students describe how they can use science investigations to respond to questions. They use their experiences to identify questions and make predictions about scientific investigations.

Relevant parts of Year 4 Science achievement standards: Students identify when science is used to understand the effect of their actions

• Blood Pressure Fact Sheet
• Blu-Tack
• Device capable of creating audio-visual recordings, such as an iPad or camera
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Handling Sensitive Topics and Issues – one digital copy
• Plastic bendy straw – two per group
• Student Worksheet – one per student
• Tape
• Toothpicks – one per group
• Water bottles – clear plastic – two per group

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

• Communication
• Community engagement
• Empathy
• Initiative
• Leadership
• Collaboration

The Heart Foundation’s ready-made skipping program, Jump Rope for Heart, helps primary school students move more and have fun, while they raise funds for heart research, patient support and programs that help save lives.