Enrolments for 2020 have closed.
Health and Physical Education
Undergraduate | CUR-EDP255 | 2020
Previously CUR-EDP383
Course information for 2020 intake View information for 2024 course intake
Appreciate the factors that dictate the importance of health and physical education within the curriculum. Gain knowledge of children's physical and social development to instill positive attitudes towards personal health and activity in learners.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Health and Physical Education
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- create learning opportunities that promote the safe development of health and physical literacy for a diversity of children by applying discipline knowledge about health, movement and physical activity that embraces understandings of socio-cultural contexts and social justice
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the research context, rationale, content, substance and structure of the Health and Physical Education Primary School curriculum
- demonstrate safe, effective strategies to teach the curriculum including the capacity to apply theoretical knowledge to assessing children’s needs, and planning interventions
- demonstrate understanding of professional responsibilities regarding wellbeing and safety within the school, school system, curriculum and legislative requirements.
- Introduction and perspectives in Health and Physical Education
- Health and Physical Education Curriculum Overview
- Focus on Health Curricula
- Health Promoting Schools
- Focus on Physical Education Curricula
- Motor development, skill acquisition and classification
- Fundamental Movement Skills
- Physical fitness
- Game sense and Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU)
- Assessment in Health and Physical Education
- Teaching for inclusivity in Health and Physical Education
- Class management and safety in Physical Education
This subject was previously known as EDP383 Health and Physical Education.
This subject introduces students to health and physical education in the contemporary Australian primary school curriculum, where emphasis is on developing children’s health and physical literacies within safe and lifelong learning frameworks so they are able to flourish as healthy and active citizens. With attention to diversity and social justice, children’s rights to develop health and physical literacies within their personal, physical and socio-cultural contexts are explored, and relevant teaching approaches identified. Given the emphasis on evidence-based curriculum design, students will investigate the research that underpins the contemporary curriculum rationale and focus.
This subject reviews ongoing, developmentally appropriate and explicit teaching about health and movement, where children participate safely to develop the knowledge, skills, dispositions and understandings to make healthy and active choices for the wellbeing of themselves and others. In this regard, the importance of physical skills in the early childhood years, including observation and practise of fundamental motor skills (FMS), assessment of FMS and appropriate interventions, is addressed. Advanced movement skills and strategies, components of personal, social and community health, fitness, spatial awareness and games-based teaching models are also explored.
Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.
Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.
- Report (40%)
- Report (45%)
- eTest (15%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
Start your career with Curtin’s globally recognised courses and extensive industry connections. Through OUA, their online courses offer an interactive and collaborative learning experience that gets you the same degree as if you studied on campus. Curtin is a global university with a vibrant culture of innovation and collaboration and is ranked in the top one per cent of universities worldwide.
Learn more about Curtin University.
Explore Curtin courses.
- QS Ranking 2024:
- 14
- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 15
Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one of
- CUR-EDC135-Child Development for Educators
CUR-EDC151-Child Development for Educators (no longer available)
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
CUR-EDP383-Health and Physical Education (no longer available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.