Footy Fit - The Mechanical Body

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 3 & 4 HPE:

• Practise and refine fundamental movement skills in a variety of movement sequences and situations (ACPMP043)

Year 5 & 6 HPE:

• Practise specialised movement skills and apply them in a variety of movement sequences and situations (ACPMP061)
• Manipulate and modify elements of effort, space, time, objects and people to perform movement sequences (ACPMP065)

Syllabus outcomes: MOS2.4, MOS3.4, GSS2.8, GSS3.8, GYS2.10, GYS3.10

General capabilities: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability

Relevant parts of Years 3 & 4 achievement standards: 
By the end of Year 4, students can refine fundamental movement skills and apply movement concepts and strategies in a variety of physical activities and to solve movement challenges. They create and perform movement sequences using fundamental movement skills and the elements of movement.

Relevant parts of Years 5 & 6 achievement standards: 
By the end of Year 6, students perform specialised movement skills and sequences and propose and combine movement concepts and strategies to achieve movement outcomes and solve movement challenges. They apply the elements of movement when composing and performing movement sequences.

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge – HPE – Years 3-6

Time required: 80 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low – teacher may need to facilitate some games and conduct demonstrations, but students mostly work independently.

• Craft materials such as balloons, Blu-Tack, cardboard tubes, cardboard boxes, elastic bands, paper straws, paper bags, plastic straws, scissors, string, tape
• Device capable of creating audio-visual recordings, such as an iPad or camera
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Joints Worksheet – one copy per student
• Plastic straw – one for demonstration purposes
• Rapid Movement Capture Worksheet – one copy per pair (optional)
• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge Tokens (from Lesson 1)
• Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge Game Plan (from Lesson 1 or 2)
• Volkswagen Footy Fit Stadium Scoreboard (from Lesson 1)

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

• Communication
• Collaboration
• Creativity
• Critical thinking
• Digital literacy
• Problem solving

The Volkswagen Footy Fit Challenge is a unit of work designed in collaboration with the Sydney Swans to promote health and wellbeing amongst students in years 3 to 6. It is designed to align with, and provide further depth to, the in-schools Volkswagen Footy Fit program for years 2 to 6.