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Self Discovery: Recognise situations and opportunities to promote health, safety and wellbeing

Curriculum Content

Recognise situations and opportunities to promote health, safety and wellbeing.

Elaborations

  • identifying poison labels and medicine packaging and understanding to ask an adult before taking medicines
  • exploring how eating healthy foods can influence health and wellbeing
  • exploring benefits of regular physical activity and identifying opportunities when they can be active at school, at home and in the community
  • describing actions to stay safe in a range of environments, including water, road, nature and outdoors

My classroom is healthy, safe and fun

In this teaching unit, students investigate the concept of what health is and which foods and activities make them healthy. They explore opportunities in the classroom environment where healthy and safe practices can be implemented. Students also identify the actions that they can apply to keep themselves and others healthy and safe in their classroom. The resource includes a unit plan, topic outlines and a video to help teachers unpack the content as well as resources, an assessment task and guide to making judgments, teacher notes and a model response. This resource is part of a complete set of units for Year 1 and 2 Band, Health and Physical Education - Personal, social and community health Strand.

Drug Education - using medicine safely

Healthy Living

Sun Safe - audio track 1

Sun Safe - audio track 4

Sun Safe - audio track 7

Message targets

In this teaching unit, students examine the purpose of advertising and the techniques used to engage children. They explore health messages seen in advertising and how they can be used to make good decisions about their own and others health and wellbeing. This package includes a unit plan, topic outlines, a video to help teachers unpack the content, resources, an assessment task and guide to making judgments, teacher notes and a model response. This unit is one of a complete set of units for Year 1-2 Band, Health and Physical Education - Personal, social and community health strand.

Drug Education - audio file 1

Healthy Living - Journal

Sun Safe - audio track 2

Sun Safe - audio track 5

Sun Safe - audio track 8

Stay Safe

In this teaching unit, students explore safe and unsafe situations so that they understand their responsibility in staying safe. They examine the safety clues that can be used in situations and will explore the emotions they feel in response to safe and unsafe situations. Students consider different aspects of sun safety and how they can promote their health, safety and wellbeing. This package includes a unit plan, topic outlines and a video to help teachers unpack the content as well as resources, an assessment task and guide to making judgments, teacher notes and a model response. This unit is part of a complete set of units for Year 1 and 2 Band, Health and Physical Education - Personal, social and community health strand.

Drug Education - audio file 2

Sun Safe

 

Sun Safe - audio track 3

Sun Safe - audio track 6