Serve It Up!

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

• adaptability
• creative thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• curiosity
• digital literacy
• initiative
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 9 Health and Physical Education

Students can:

•  transfer and adapt skills and strategies from previous experiences to create successful outcomes in unfamiliar movement situations (AC9HP10M07).

Year 9 Mathematics

Students can:

• plan and conduct statistical investigations involving the collection and analysis of different kinds of data; report findings and discuss the strength of evidence to support any conclusions (AC9M9ST05)
• choose appropriate forms of display or visualisation for a given type of data; justify selections and interpret displays for a given context (AC9M9ST04).

Relevant parts of Year 9 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students adapt and transfer movement strategies to unfamiliar situations to achieve successful outcomes.

Relevant parts of Year 9 Mathematics achievement standards: Students compare and analyse the distributions of multiple numerical data sets, choose representations, describe features of these data sets using summary statistics and the shape of distributions, and consider the effect of outliers. 

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Literacy, Numeracy, Personal and Social Capability

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion and help with data analysis.

UN SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

• Target 4.1: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education, leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.

• Data Sheet (1 per student)
• device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• sports equipment for Volleyball and Beach Volleyball 
• student devices for individual use

These resources have been created with the support of the Australian Commonwealth Games Team, via Commonwealth Games Australia.

The Australian Commonwealth Games Team are set to take on the athletes of he world at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games from next year, and together the more than 250 athletes in green and gold aim to be the top nation at the Games in terms of gold and overall medals won, the number of medallists, and the number of sports winning medals.

You can cheer on Australia’s best across the screens of 7 and 7Plus from 23 July 2026.