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Health and Physical Education

Years 7 and 8

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Written response: Bushwalking

Summary of task

As part of a unit of work about healthy eating and the outdoors, students learnt about the natural environment and participated in a bushwalk in their local community. Students explored strategies to promote minimal impact on the environment.

Students were asked to reflect on their own experience and then plan and develop safe, healthy and environmentally friendly guidelines for taking younger students on a bushwalk.

This task relates to the focus areas: challenge and adventure activities, food and nutrition, and safety.

Achievement standard

By the end of Year 8, students evaluate strategies and resources to manage changes and transitions and investigate their impact on identities. Students evaluate the impact on wellbeing of relationships and valuing diversity. They analyse factors that influence emotional responses. They investigate strategies and practices that enhance their own, others’ and community health, safety and wellbeing. They investigate and apply movement concepts and select strategies to achieve movement and fitness outcomes. They examine the cultural and historical significance of physical activities and examine how connecting to the environment can enhance health and wellbeing.

Students apply personal and social skills to establish and maintain respectful relationships and promote safety, fair play and inclusivity. They demonstrate skills to make informed decisions, and propose and implement actions that promote their own and others’ health, safety and wellbeing. Students demonstrate control and accuracy when performing specialised movement sequences and skills. They apply movement concepts and refine strategies to suit different movement situations. They apply the elements of movement to compose and perform movement sequences.

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Identifies two benefits of being in the outdoors, including connection to the natural environment
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Describes practical strategies they used to prepare for their bushwalk to protect their safety and health
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Describes how the nutritional value of the food they took was appropriate for the energy demands of the walk
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Identifies two strategies for protecting the environment so that others may enjoy it in the future
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Reflects on additional preparation they could undertake next time to enhance their experience of connecting with the natural environment
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Includes an intention to connect with the environment

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Identifies a strategy to ensure their buddy takes the appropriate clothing with them and details what this might be
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Identifies the importance of taking the right foods on a bushwalk and gives an appropriate example
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Identifies appropriate actions to take to care for the environment
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Suggests how they can ensure that their buddy stays safe while on the bushwalk
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Promotes wellbeing by involving their buddy in deciding on safety rules

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Identifies that food preferences can contribute to their buddy's enjoyment of the walk
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Considers the enjoyment and involvement of others
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Plans for the safety of themselves and others