Orienteering is a sport for everyone. Whether you’re a super-fit, elite athlete or someone who just enjoys a walk with friends, there’s an orienteering event that suits you. This program outlines basic orienteering knowledge, map skills, navigational aids (including a very clear description of how to take a bearing) and more advanced skills such as using hand rails, attack points, control flow and map memory. We also examine the history and different types and levels of this growing sport – a sport that has everything.
Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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Reality Bites!: Sex, STDs, and Contraception
This program explores the important issues for modern teenagers. Understanding sex and sexuality is a key component addressed in the program, as is decision making, being sexually active, practicing safe sex, and dealing with unwanted pregnancies.
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Newton’s Laws of Motion
This fast-paced program shows how Newton’s three laws of motion can be used to explain and predict the motion of everyday objects. The effect of friction, including air resistance, is highlighted and the concept of inertia is illustrated with classic demonstrations. The program features worked examples, questions for class discussion, as well as the remarkable Rocketman who provides a dramatic example of the third law in action.
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No Bullying in Our Community: Home/School Partnership Strategies
Bullying is complex, insidious and covert behavior that is difficult for any child to deal with in isolation. Our drive and instinct as parents is to protect and support our child and equip them with skills to handle what life presents. The key to tackling school bullying is to create a partnership between teachers, parents, students and the broader community. This program will support parents who want to work in partnership with their child’s school to bring about a suitable outcome for children involved in bullying. By doing this parents will become their child’s best advocate rather than a source that inflames the bullying.
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Not in My Class: Managing Classroom Bullying Behaviours
Bullying in the classroom is a reality but is not always as obvious as other instances of bullying – such as in the playground. Bullying in the classroom can affect all students – not just those involved in bullying or on the receiving end of the behavior. No action by a teacher can be seen by students as condoning the bullying or giving tacit acceptance of the behavior. This program discusses the issue of classroom bullying behaviors, and offers thought-provoking management solutions for teachers who need to address this type of behavior.
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Not in Our School: Creating a Non-Bullying Culture
Bullying – it’s a part of school life, but does it have to be? Preventing and responding to bullying is everyone’s responsibility. Not in Our School looks at the whole school approach to bullying. This approach focuses on a school’s formal curriculum and classroom practices and involves all members of the school community. This program highlights the steps to building a safe school, skills-building for students, peer support systems and student-directed campaigns. We feature expert opinion from Professor Ken Rigby, Psychologist Helen McGrath and Maree Stanley of the Better Buddies Program, and provide insights into approaches adopted by two Australian schools.
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Nutrients – Their Interactions
Carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water; these are the basic nutrients our bodies use everyday to keep us healthy. Individually, they are vital for many cellular and physical functions. Interacting with each other, in thousands of permutations, they allow our bodies not only to perform many other vital, complex and delicate functions that keeps us alive, but also to be very efficient in the way we do it. In this program we look beyond the relatively simple work of macro and micronutrients, to the complex and fascinating work that happens when nutrients interact with each other for the production of energy, for growth, repair and maintenance of hard and soft tissue and for regulation of the body’s processes. It’s a fascinating and complex process, presented in an entertaining, information-rich program that also examines the impact of deficiencies on short term and long term health. A must for Health and Human Development students and an excellent companion volume to VEA’s “Nutrients – the basics” , providing students with an understanding of the role of nutrients in the body and the almost miraculous way in which our bodies maintain themselves.
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Nutrition for Life One: Pregnancy, Infancy and Childhood
This program aims to educate students about the nutrients required for optimal growth and development across the lifespan. It will explore patterns of physical development during prenatal development through to late adulthood and the nutrients required to support both growth and maintenance of the human body.
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Nutrition for Life Two: Youth, Adulthood and Late Adulthood
Part two in the Nutrition For Life, this program will explore the nutrient needs of adolescence/youth and adulthood.
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Nutrition for Physical Activity
This program discusses what to eat, both for ‘normal’ physical activity and for elite athletes. Nutrition is an integral component of training and competition. This program explores the ways to use nutrition to your advantage.