Super Ball Play
$14.95
Super Ball Play is a collection of games and activities that are played with large ‘floating’ balls called Super Balls. The games are diverse in nature and include tag games, relays, group cooperative challenges, and modified Sports. Super Ball Play experiences involve cooperation and in some cases competition.
Introducing Super Ball Play into a Physical Activity Program adds an exciting, fun and new dimension to motivate students to be physically active. Super Ball Play activities are inclusive and cater for a wide range of student abilities and needs.
The games and activities in this curricular based Resource provide opportunities for students to develop their motor skills and social skills while enjoying successful games experiences.
Providing students with opportunities to engage in Super Ball Play will add variety and richness to students’ movement experiences and further enhance connections between them. More Info
Healthy Steps
$14.95
The ‘Healthy Steps’ Pedometer Walking Program provides opportunities for students to participate in a variety of walking experiences using pedometers.
This curricular based program introduces students to the purpose of a pedometer, how it functions and a variety of walking activities that aim to motivate them to increase the number of steps they take each day.
This program will help students develop patterns of physical activity and teach them how to monitor the amount of physical activity they accumulate on a daily basis.
The Resource also advocates and promotes the
involvement of the school and families into the Pedometer Walking Program in order to help the wider community develop and maintain active lifestyles.
Included in the Resource is a plethora of reproducible Resource Sheets and Cross-Curricular Links to further enhance and extend students’ Learning Experiences. More Info
Fit Ball Play
$14.95
This Resource provides opportunities for students to participate in Fit Ball activities individually and in groups. Fit Ball Play provides an exciting and novel way for students to be physically active. It enable them to participate in health promoting physical activity while helping them to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to value and make physical activity a dail habit. Group Fit Ball activities also make ideal school Assembly performances. More Info
Sit-ercise Play
$14.95
This Resource provides opportunities for students to participate in a variety of physical activities on a chair or other seating arrangement. The nature of the activities allows them to be incorporated into a Physical Activity Program or used as transition activities in the day-to-day classroom environment, or as an energiser. Some of the activities are transferable to the playgroound in school break times, or even wider community. More Info
Special Physical Activity Events
$14.95
This Resource focuses on a variety of physical activities that can be presented as discrete Special Events for inclusion within a Health Promoting School Program. These Special Events have been organised around the following specific themes: Games for Diversity, Health Promotion Initiatives (HPI) and The Olympics. The theme Games for Diversity provides opportunity to develop an awareness and appreciation of games played by people from other cultures. Health Promotion Initiatives presents a variety of experiences that could be used to celebrate special community-based events such as Heart Week, Be Active Day/Week and Mental Health Week, and, creates awareness of community-based health promotion programs while developing values, knowledge, skills and behaviours for an active lifestyle. The Olympic Theme provides an opportunity for students to participate in their own class Olympics and gain the skills and health benefits of being physically active with others. Refer to Olympic Summer Games for more information. More Info
Olympic Summer Games
$14.95
This Resource focuses on Physical Activity and Nutrition activities that have been organised around the Summer Olympics theme. Through participation in these activities students can be introduced to a series of fundamental human values that are applicable both on the field of play and in everyday life. This Resource endeavours to foster students’ knowledge, skills and understandings to lead a healthier, active lifestyle, to develop resiliency and to become a more connected and caring person in an increasingly conflicted world. To this end the content can meet the needs of national curriculum.
Health promotion ideas for schools and communities are included as are cross-curricular teaching ideas. Nutrition ideas linked to the Olympic theme can be found in the Cross-Curricular Links section. Many of the activities included could also take place in non-school settings such as camps, youth and community clubs, family outings and so on. More Info
‘Healthy Habits’ Olympic Passport
$11.95
Students can achieve their own Olympic Award from participating in this program. There are three levels (Bronze, Silver and Gold) and students can receive their certificate upon successful completion of a
level. The Award is given in recognition of individual student achievement in reaching and maintaining specific nutrition, physical activity and other health enhancing goals. Specific information is given in the booklet itself.