Fit for Life: Health and Physical Education for the Australian Curriculum has been explicitly aligned with the revised Australian curriculum: Health and PE and brings a practical and inquiry-based approach to the subject. Emphasis has been placed on ensuring the health and wellbeing, and respectful relationships content is up-to-date and reflects best practices in an increasingly prominent area of the curriculum.
STUDENTS: Year Level: 07 and 08
FEATURES
- Learning objectives: listed on each chapter opener in clear, accessible language
- Wellbeing check-in activities: developed with Clinical Psychologist Dr David Bakker from MoodMission. Each activity introduces students to a specific strategy, based on scientific research, that is designed to improve their wellbeing.
- Investigations: scaffold research topics and experiments and allow students to conduct their own investigation into a topic. Students practise their data analysis skills and how to present results.
- Case studies: create authentic connections between Health & Physical Education knowledge and real-world applications. Feature perspectives from diverse social and cultural groups, including First Nations peoples.
- Face to face: activities designed to be completed in pairs or groups, and provide opportunities for debate and collaboration and improved teamwork skills. Students explore different movement skills and practise games and sports.
- Fast facts: short bites of information and data that are designed to engage and interest students while building knowledge and creating real-world connections.
- Review, reflect, extend activities provide differentiated summary questions to review student knowledge and explore topics further. Chapter reviews: questions ranging in complexity to further build knowledge and help apply concepts.