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Years 9 and 10 units

Cooperative sport
This unit provides an opportunity for students to develop constructive attitudes, values, and behaviours to manage cooperative and competitive sporting environments through modified volleyball.

Heart running
This unit provides an opportunity for students to explore their notions of health, influences on their health, critique the value of deliberate physical activity, and apply a process to improve competence in cross-country.

My athletic identity
This unit provides an opportunity for students to explore the social and cultural significance of participation in athletics, both for the individual and for the school.

Perceptive cricket
This unit provides an opportunity for students to explore the effect of the media on their perspective of cricket and the social and cultural significance of sport, both for the individual and for society.

Playing the game safely
This unit provides an opportunity for students to explore the safety issues related to learning, devising, teaching, and playing minor games.

Techy tennis
This unit provides an opportunity for students to identify and critically appraise the contribution of science, technology, and the environment to tennis.

Touch
This unit provides an opportunity for students to explore what inclusion means, develop strategies to enhance inclusion, and consider the effect on promoting inclusion in a sport context.

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Introduction
Underlying concepts
Teaching approaches
Years 6-7 units
Years 9-10 units
   Cooperative sport
   Heart running
   My athletic identity
   Perceptive cricket
   Playing the game safely
   Techy tennis
   Touch