Key Priority Area - Active Classrooms

What makes an active classroom?

Active classrooms incorporate movement into classroom learning helping students to retain knowledge in a meaningful way. Small changes in the classroom can have a big impact on student learning, health and contribution to their daily activity levels.

An active classroom involves:

• active breaks between and within learning activities
• learning activities which involve movement
• working at benches, standing desks, on the floor, or in combination to create movement between work areas
• learning outdoors.

Join our Expert Support Service staff members Gabrielle Smales and Monique FitzGerald as they explored practical strategies to implement Active Classrooms in your school with Natalie Lander, Senior Research Fellow - Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at Deakin University, and Jess Orr, Secondary Teacher and Educational Lead at TransformUs.

How to implement Active Classrooms in your School | DOWNLOAD

Transform US - link to home page where you will find free resources to support development of more active learning spaces including lesson plans.

Toolkit for Teachers (Outdoor Learning) - resources dedicated to helping teachers increase their confidence in taking students into the outdoors across a variety of curriculum focus areas.

Cricket Australia Cricket Smart resources - Aligned to the Australian Curriculum, Cricket Smart helps students to grasp and retain knowledge using cricket themed lesson plans as a teaching tool.