Skipping Generations – Measuring Jump Rope for Heart’s Impact

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

• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• community engagement
• reflection
• social skills

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Health and Physical Education, Years 5 and 6

• Students learn to analyse how behaviours influence the health, safety, relationships and wellbeing of individuals and communities. (AC9HP6P10)

Relevant parts of Years 5 and 6 achievement standards: Students analyse health information to refine strategies to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student:

• distinguishes contextual factors that influence health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity which are controllable and uncontrollable (PD3-6)
• creates and participates in physical activities to promote healthy and active lifestyles (PD3-8).

General capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate discussions and guide students to complete activities.

UN SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Target 3.d: Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks.

• Access to a device to project a visual
• Device to conduct some online research
• Impact Data
• Measuring Impact Survey
• Now and Then Poster
• Student Worksheet
• Whiteboard
• Whiteboard markers

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

Visualise Data in the Primary Classroom 

Quick Summary: This course will help you teach Year 3-6 students how to use infographics to explore and represent information, data or knowledge. Infographics can be used as a teaching and learning tool in any primary subject.