'Playing for Life' activity cards are game-based, and easily adapted to different sports. The cards take a 'game sense' approach to teaching about games and sports. 'Game sense' is an approach to modified sport that:
- engages children in minor and modified game strategies and concepts
- encourages simple modifications to accommodate varying ability levels
- promotes the development of ‘thinking players’.
Structure and features
Structure and features
There are videos that develop student skills and understandings for net and court games, invasion games, target games, striking and fielding games, and movement exploration games. There are also activities for warm-up, energisers, group management and finish up.
To play:
- search for age appropriate activities or download all the task cards
- choose a game off the task cards and watch the optional video
- play a variety of different games everyday
- modify the game using the change it tips.
Families can choose a different game card to play each day, appropriate to your child's age.
Teachers can:
- access creative ways to get students active in the attached document
- ask students to play the practical game you suggest
- allow students to choose a game from the game category you are teaching.
Teacher notes
Teacher notes
Assessment opportunities
Students can:
- film themselves playing the games and send them to you
- record their reflection journals online or take a photo of it and share it with you.
Australian curriculum
- Strand – movement and physical activity.
- Focus area – active play and minor games, fundamental movement skills, games and sport
- Cross curriculum links – English, Maths.
