Naturally Mindful: Connecting With Your Senses

Naturally Mindful: Connecting With Your Senses

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  • Primary
  • Foundation
  • Year 1 - 6
  • Health and Physical Education
  • Health
  • Social
  • Mental Health
  • Mindfulness and Meditation
  • Social and Emotional Learning
  • ...

Lesson summary

In this short activity, students will undertake a nature-based mindfulness practice, exploring their connection to nature and allowing for present-moment focus. This lesson gives students an opportunity to connect with their five senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste and is designed to connect students to natural alignment with a focus on awareness, posture, breathing, relaxation and balance, preparing them for effective engagement and focus in class. This activity has been designed to ‘punctuate’ the day. You can use it before, during or after your class.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • develop awareness and understanding of mindfulness as a method for nurturing their minds, recognising their current state, and making thoughtful decisions about engagement
  • explore the sensation of touch and deepen their awareness of bodily sensations, surroundings, and senses through mindful interaction with natural objects.

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Curriculum Mapping

These activities can be used with all subject areas to enable deep focus and engagement within students; however, the following curriculum links directly relate to these activities.

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: Health and Physical Education

Foundation:

  • express and describe emotions they experience (AC9HPFP03)

Year 1 & 2:

  • identify how different situations influence emotional responses (AC9HP2P03)
  • investigate a range of health messages and practices in their community and discuss their purposes (AC9HP2P06)

Year 3 & 4:

  • plan, rehearse and reflect on strategies to cope with the different changes and transitions they experience, such as the changes associated with puberty (AC9HP4P02)
  • explain how and why emotional responses can vary and practise strategies to manage their emotions (AC9HP4P06)

Year 5 & 6:

  • investigate resources and strategies to manage changes and transitions, including changes associated with puberty (AC9HP6P02)
  • apply strategies to manage emotions and analyse how emotional responses influence interactions (AC9HP6P06)

Syllabus outcomes: PDe-2, PD1-2, PD2-2

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  • Audio recording: The Nature of Mindfulness: The Sense of Touch (available in lesson plan)
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