The Health and Physical Education

EDU30014: Health and Physical Education
Assignment 2A: Portfolio (Template)
Theme #1:
Food and Nutrition – an educational resource developed for the purpose of teaching
children on the importance of consuming a nutritionally balanced diet based on the
Australian Food and Nutrition curriculum.
Item:
‘Live Outside the Box’ – developed by the New South Wales (NSW) Government with the
aim to teach students on increasing their levels of physical activity, reduce their
engagement in sedentary lifestyle and improving their ability to select foods and drinks
for healthy breakfast and snacks (NSW Government, 2019).
Evidence of the resource:
https://www.healthykids.nsw.gov.au/campaigns-programs/live-outside-the-box
Teaching guide for teachers:
https://www.healthykids.nsw.gov.au/downloads/file/teacherschildcare/
LOTBTeacherImplementationGuide_FINAL1.pdf
Food and Nutrition guide for Stage 3 students (years 5 to 6):
https://www.healthykids.nsw.gov.au/downloads/file/teacherschildcare/
CC08328hLOBWeeklyActivityfinal.pdf.
Lesson plan overview:
1. A brief description of the resource, including a clear link to relevant curriculum
documentation.
The ‘Live Outside the Box’ resource instructs teachers as well as Stage 3 children to
engage in at least an hour of physical activity (like cycling, skipping, playing sports or
biking) and replace ‘screen time’ that is, time for sedentary activities like television
watching and video games with outdoor and indoor hobbies, activities and games (NSW
Government, 2019). This resource activity is relatable to the Australian Curriculum
component of ‘Health benefits of physical activity’ which emphasizes teaching
Foundation to 10th year children on ways in which participation of sedentary activities can
be reduced and replaced with moderately vigorous physical activities (The Australian
Curriculum, 2016).
The ‘Live Outside the Box’ resource also guides students on increasing their intake of
fruits and vegetables, water, whole grains and lean proteins for breakfast and snacks and
reduce intake of packaged, processed foods excessively high in added sugars, via a
‘Student Card’ (NSW Government, 2019).
This resource activity can be related to the Australian Curriculum component of ‘ Food
and nutrition’ which focusses on teaching Foundation to 10th year children regarding
healthy snack, drink and meal options and methods of maintaining balanced diet
consumption via compliance with the food recommendations included in the ‘ The
Australian Guide to Healthy Eating’ (The Australian Curriculum, 2016).
2. An explanation of how it would be used in health and physical education, providing
evidence of knowledge and understanding of pedagogy, tools, methods and
resources.
The ‘Live Outside the Box’ instructs teachers to incorporate food and nutrition education
for Stage 3 children via two methods – a Student Card and a Teacher Implementation

EDU30014: Health and Physical Education
Assignment 2A: Portfolio (Template)
Guide. The Teacher Implementation Guide instructs teachers on encouraging students to
record in the ‘Student Card’ their daily physical activity and food consumption as well as
working with students and canteen supervisors to design innovative posters and
newsletters on balanced diet consumption (NSW Government, 2019).
In this manner, the resources complies well with the pedagogical need to make learning
fulfilling and engaging as evidenced by the Early Years Learning Framework of
‘Belonging, Being and Becoming’ ( Department of Education, 2019).
The Teacher Implementation Guide resource also instructs teachers to disseminate
physical health knowledge to students by collaborating with their respective parents
(NSW Government, 2019).
This resource component thus incorporates the pedagogical need of parent participation
in childhood education as researched by the Australian Children’s Education & Care
Quality Authority (ACECQA, 2019).
3. An analysis of the technology aspect of the resource (with a focus on student
engagement) and how it relates to the curriculum.
The technology aspect of student engagement is actively addressed by this resource via
the ‘Student Card’, which contains pictures or symbols of food group items like water,
fruits, vegetables and packaged food (or ‘sometimes food’). Students are required to
colour each picture for the food they consume and report the same to parents and
teachers for evaluation (NSW Government, 2019). This resource component relates well
to the Australian Curriculum component of ‘Active play and minor games’ which focusses
on encouraging student participation in activities which are engaging, imaginative and
problem solving (The Australian Curriculum, 2016).
4. Methods to maintain safe and challenging learning environments.
The resource however, does not address any issues of safety especially during the
participation of physical activity - except for instructing children to sign their cards by
parents and teachers (NSW Government, 2019).
This demonstrates lack of compliance to the Australian Curriculum component of ‘Safety’
– which focuses on teaching children the importance of safety, emergency and first aid at
school and home (The Australian Curriculum, 2016).
5. An analysis of the benefits and limitations of the resource, linked to academic
literature and curricula documentation (i.e. the Australian Curriculum),
demonstrating evidence connecting academic literature to practice.
The resource’s compliance with essential curriculum components of food and nutrition as well as
physical activity, can be considered as a benefit. Indeed, nutritional education comprising of
student engaging and creative activities have been evidenced to motivate children towards
healthy lifestyle behaviours (Mbhatsani, Mbhenyane & Mabapa, 2017). However, the lack of
compliance to safety components of the curriculum is a major limitations since lack of education
and supervision on safety can increase a child’s risk of acquiring injuries during physical activity
participation (Spreafico et al., 2019).
References:
ACECQA. (2019). National Quality Standard. Retrieved 25 December 2019, from
https://www.acecqa.gov.au/nqf/national-quality-standard.
Department of Education. (2019). Early Years Learning Framework | Department of Education.
Retrieved 25 December 2019, from https://www.education.gov.au/early-years-learning-
framework-0.