Strategy in Action: Team Games

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

• adaptability
• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• digital literacy
• problem solving
• prototyping
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 5 Health and Physical Education

Students can:

• transfer familiar movement strategies to different movement situations (AC9HP6M02)
• investigate how different movement concepts related to effort, space, time, objects and people can be applied to improve movement outcomes (AC9HP6M03).

Year 5 Mathematics

Students can:

• plan and conduct statistical investigations by posing questions or identifying a problem and collecting relevant data; choose appropriate displays and interpret the data; communicate findings within the context of the investigation (AC9M5ST0).

Relevant parts of Year 5 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students refine and modify movement skills and apply movement concepts across a range of situations. They transfer movement strategies between situations and evaluate the impact on movement outcomes. 

Relevant parts of Year 5 Mathematics achievement standards: Students plan and conduct statistical investigations that collect nominal and ordinal categorical and discrete numerical data using digital tools. 

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 supervise physical activities.

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.

• Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• Equipment  for the chosen game
• Student devices for individual use
• Whiteboard
• Line Graph Template
• Weekly Training Planner
• Team Skills Cards

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.