Outdoor learning: Health and Physical Education

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Health and Physical Education

Outdoor learning provides opportunities to learn about interacting with others, connecting to the environment, teamwork and leadership. The outdoors provides a valid and important environment for developing movement competence, promoting a sense of wellbeing, enhancing personal and social skills, and developing an understanding of the concept of risk versus challenge. Outdoor recreation is typically associated with physical activity in outdoor, natural or semi-natural settings. These activities provide opportunities to connect individually, in small groups or as a community to the outdoor environment, contribute to health and wellbeing through direct personal experiences and promote lifelong physical activity.

Depending on how outdoor learning is planned and delivered, there is scope to link to focus areas such as: challenge and adventure activities, safety, health benefits of physical activity, food and nutrition, mental health and wellbeing, and lifelong physical activities.

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Investigate community resources and strategies to seek help about health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS053)

Practise skills to establish and manage relationships (ACPPS055)

Investigate the role of preventive health in promoting and maintaining health, safety and wellbeing for individuals and their communities (ACPPS058)

Identify how valuing diversity positively influences the wellbeing of the community (ACPPS060)

Practise specialised movement skills and apply them in a variety of movement sequences and situations (ACPMP061)

Propose and apply movement concepts and strategies with and without equipment (ACPMP063)

Participate positively in groups and teams by encouraging others and negotiating roles and responsibilities (ACPMP067)

Apply critical and creative thinking processes in order to generate and assess solutions to movement challenges (ACPMP068)

Examine how identities are influenced by people and places (ACPPS051)

Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships (ACPPS056)

Investigate the role of preventive health in promoting and maintaining health, safety and wellbeing for individuals and their communities (ACPPS058)

Explore how participation in outdoor activities supports personal and community health and wellbeing and creates connections to the natural and built environment (ACPPS059)

Exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander understandings of special places and the connection of these places to physical activities (ACPPS059)