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'Go Noodle' is an interactive site with short videos and interactive games (3-5 min) that encourage students to take regular movement breaks (brain breaks) throughout the day.This resource is free but you need to create an account, with the option to download the app on a second device.
This series of free remote learning resources will help boost your students’ wellbeing. These activities draw on new and existing resources to give your students a wide variety of options. This resource is for students in year R-6.
Get advice about the amount and kinds of foods that we need to eat for health and wellbeing. This resource helps all users follow recommendations from the Australian Dietary Guidelines and Infant Feeding Guidelines.
The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) provides nutritious, tasty recipes that can be prepared by anyone with a busy lifestyle. This resource includes healthy meal ideas for the whole family, prepared by dietitians.
Students can learn about safe social media use, and how to stop bullying online. Each learning module has an activity guide for teachers to use in the classroom or online at home.
This resource helps teachers and schools to get children outdoors for all types of activities. Students will add art and natural beauty to their schoolground environments, and connect to their neighbourhood’s unique natural, geographic, and cultural context.
Not sure how to get students learning in the outdoors? These resources will inspire you, and help you plan a range of outdoor classroom activities aligned to the Australian Curriculum. Books, lesson ideas and printable materials will help you communicate about you 'Outdoor Classroom Day'.
'Crunch&Sip' is a WA program that helps set students up for success in their learning. It's all about encouraging them to refuel with vegetables, fruit and water at a set time during the school day.
This website provides units of work including video links, music and assessments for R to 6 students. They can develop personal and social skills, and learn to critically appraise cultural and social factors that shape their own identities, bodies and communities.
SDERA (School Drug Education and Road Aware) has produced printable fact sheets to support parents in the areas of resilience, drug and road safety education.
'Challenges and Choices' is a unit designed to assist teachers who want to guide students in learning about resilience, drug education and road safety activities.
The healthy eating curriculum incorporates information from the Australian dietary guidelines and the Australian guide to healthy eating. This resource provides a range of lessons for R-7 students. Year levels are suggested, although they can often be adapted for other age groups.
Explore soccer careers with the Adelaide United Football Club's 'Football Fever' educational resource. Learn what it's like to be a sport event manager, nutritionist, coach, promoter, or designer through dedicated tasks and lessons.
Cricket Australia’s development program for primary schools focuses on ‘learning through play’. Also called Woolworths Cricket Blast Health & PE (WWCB HPE), the inclusive and engaging program is built on the foundations of the Australian Curriculum, the Australian Sports Commission Physical Literacy Standard, and the Australian Cricket Coaching Philosophy.
TED-Ed (TED’s youth and education initiative) is a great companion for student provocations. This resource has video-based lessons about health topics including growth and development, medical conditions, consumer health, public health, nutrition, physical fitness, and emotional health.
A lesson plan for teachers to help students make informed healthy food choices and engage in physical activity at school. There is an option to modify this for home. Students will learn that it is their responsibility to maintain good health and lifestyle choices.
Access communication and healthy relationships resources including videos, tip sheets and stories. The videos and tip sheets are directed at older audiences; the storytelling section is ideal for younger students.
This resource has examples of inclusive games that can be played in small spaces with 2 to 6 people. The instructional cards provide opportunities to adapt and modify game rules, equipment and techniques so that anyone can participate in the fun.
This resource provides information to encourage online safety.
Designed for kids, this site contains written information, diagrams, links and games on a variety of health topics that are of interest to students. Over 500 kids were surveyed to find out what topics they would like on the website; all the Kids topics have been trialled by kids.
This American resource offers educators free health-related lesson plans, interactive games, educational videos and activities. Students can engage with the range of discussion questions, classroom activities and extensions, printable handouts, and quizzes and answer keys. This site also contains emotional health lesson plans created by Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, called
Free-G (freestyle gymnastics) is a unique fusion of traditional gymnastics and acrobatic tricks. It draws on influences from martial arts, free-running, parkour, tricking and breakdance, and captures the excitement and fast pace of Ninja Warrior.
Kids need at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity every day. 'Find Your 30' helps Australians find ways to fit 30 to 60 minutes of activity into their day.
These resources provide detailed instructions on how to juggle, skip and speed stack at home to improve fitness and concentration.
Nature Play SA helps your family enjoy the outdoors. To help you make the most of time spent outside, Nature Play SA gives you practical, creative and simple ideas to try with your children in your own backyard, a local park, or anywhere in the state.
Nature Play SA takes your learning outside. This page includes a Go Wild pack with prompt activity cards to inspire outdoor learning.
PE Central is an American-based website with thousands of free physical education lesson plans and ideas from physical education professionals. Teachers can use the lesson ideas to support their planning in PE.
With PE Geek's brand new iPad app, students can produce a workout video at home. The app lets students be the director and the star of their very own workout video. It works especially well for students who are working from home. Please note: the app can only be used on an iPad.
This free interactive course from Play by the Rules explains and explores the role of coaches in community sport. The portal gives you access to learning resources and assessments.
The Port Adelaide Football Club community youth program is a joint initiative between the South Australian Government and Port Adelaide Football Club. The program, established in 1999, promotes healthy living, respect, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). By participating in the program, teachers, families and students gain access to online resources,
The Power Community Limited – community youth program, teaches students about living a healthy lifestyle and nurturing respectful relationships through the sporting lens of football.
The Australian Human Rights Commission provides a range of resources for students to explore children’s rights, human rights and the associated responsibilities. Explore information about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, human rights, and our responsibility as respectful citizens.
Kids News is a free ready-to go literacy resource for teachers using current daily news stories for students in the classroom. It's suitable for students from Year 3 to Year 8. Kids News is written specifically for students, so they can use it safely in an unsupervised environment or for independent learning.
We don’t need to eat fancy, expensive foods to enjoy good health. Affordable, everyday foods can be 'Superhero Foods'. This fresh approach to nutrition education and cooking empowers children to make healthy lifestyle choices.
The 'e-learning for kids' resource is a free interactive platform that integrates gaming and learning. To make learning fun, courses are presented as 'learning journeys'. While acquiring all their new skills, students 'travel' around the world learning more about the 7 continents, countries, cities, oceans and cultures.
'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:
This series of short, creative yoga videos will introduce students to yoga through storytelling and song. The benefits of yoga include:improving coordination, balance, concentration and rhythmic expressionpromoting healthy living and inclusivitydeveloping strategies to manage stress through breathinghelping students grow in confidenceintroducing students to mindfulness.