SHS3 Physical Education Health Core · Semester 2 Week 15: Recreational Activities

Lesson notes

Learning Objectives

Indicator: 3.1.5.LI.3 - Explain the benefits of engaging in recreational activities.

By the end of the lesson, learners can:

Describe at least five distinct benefits of engaging in recreational activities, drawn from physical, mental, social, emotional, and skill development domains.
Categorise the benefits of recreational activities into physical, mental, social, and emotional aspects using a visual map or chart.
Explain how at least three specific recreational activities lead to identifiable health and wellness benefits.
Examine how regular participation in recreational activities contributes to a healthier and longer life across multiple components of health and wellness.
Evaluate their own recreational experiences from earlier lessons and articulate how those activities have personally benefitted them.

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Curriculum details

Strand: Physical Activity and Health (Strand 1)
Sub-strand: Recreational Activities (1.5)
Content standard: 3.1.5.CS.1 - Demonstrate an understanding of the importance, benefits and various types of recreational activities and participate in any of them to promote lifelong fitness and well-being. 3.1.5.LO.1 Demonstrate the ability to incorporate recreational activities into daily lives by identifying, stating their benefits and participating in them.
Indicator: 3.1.5.LI.3 - Explain the benefits of engaging in recreational activities.
Suggested placement: Semester 2, Week 15 (Week 35 of the year)
Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.
Curriculum reference: NaCCA curriculum document, p. 85

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

Reflective Learning: Learners watch a video on the benefits of recreational activities from multimedia aids like slides, videos and infographics and share their thoughts on how recreational activities have benefitted them or others they know.
Case Study Analysis: Learners in groups are assigned a specific benefit of recreational activities (e.g. physical health, mental well-being, social connections, skill development, stress reduction etc), they research and create a PowerPoint presentation highlighting three recreational activities from which the benefits can be derived.
Group-based Learning: In groups, learners create visual maps (e.g. mind maps or flowcharts) and illustrate the various benefits of identified recreational activities. They categorise the benefits into physical, mental, social and emotional aspects and explain them in a gallery walk (displayed on a wall) where they can view and discuss each other's work.

Assessment (3.1.5.AS.3): Level 1: Describe one benefit you got from engaging in recreational activities in PEH. Level 2: Select two components of health and wellness and explain how they can be achieved by engaging in recreational activities in PEH. Level 3. Examine three benefits of recreational activities and how they can contribute to living a healthier, longer life. Level 4: Suggest four traditional activities that can be used as recreational activities and how they can benefit a lot of the adolescents who engage in them.

Teaching and Learning Resources:
- Online resources
- Pictures/charts
- Phones/laptops
- Projectors
- Showing or exhibiting opportunities in Physical Activities and Health.
- Videos
- Textbooks
- Any other relevant materials.
- Any other equipment found in the community fit for purpose