Jump Rope For Heart - What's For Lunch?

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Foundation Year Health and Physical Education:

• Identify actions that promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS006)

Years 1 & 2 Health and Physical Education:

• Recognise situations and opportunities to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS018)
• Explore actions that help make the classroom a healthy, safe and active place (ACPPS022)

Foundation to Year 2 Visual Arts:

• Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks (ACAVAM107)
• Create and display artworks to communicate ideas to an audience (ACAVAM108)

Syllabus outcomes: SLES1.13, PHES1.2, SLS1.13, PHS1.12, VAS1.2, VAS1.1

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Intercultural Understanding

Cross-curriculum priority: Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia

Relevant parts of Foundation Year Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students identify actions that help them be healthy, safe and physically active.

Relevant parts of Foundation Year 1 & 2 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: They examine messages related to health decisions and describe how to keep themselves and others healthy, safe and physically active. 

Relevant parts of Foundation to Year 2 Visual Arts achievement standards: Students make artworks in different forms to express their ideas, observations and imagination, using different techniques and processes.

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Jump Rope For Heart: Jump Starters – Years F-2

Time required: 60 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – facilitate class discussion and lead student discovery of content.

• Coloured paper
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Food Flash Cards
• Glue
• Paper plates – one per student
• Scissors
• Whiteboard

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

• Creativity
• Critical thinking
• Cultural understanding
• Adaptability
• Global citizenship 

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.