Life Ed Qld works in partnerships with more than 800 schools and teachers across the state to support and reinforce the important health messages being taught at home and in the classroom.
All primary modules are aligned with the Australian curriculum for health and physical activity and are developed to support teachers reach these specific learning outcomes and complement learning in the classroom.
Each module provides core knowledge and skills in a fun, interactive and age appropriate manner. Our programs focus on:
Once you book in a Life Ed Qld program to your school you will receive access for the whole calendar year to our online learning resource, the Life Education Hub to complement the learning delivered by our educator team.
The Hub includes a suite of interactive lessons aligned to the Australian curriculum, pre-and-post visit resources, tips for parents and teachers, plus access to our podcasts with leading experts.
Harold and his friends want to look their best for photo day at school, but discover that things don’t always go to plan. This module focuses on things children can do to keep themselves healthy including:
This module focuses on students’ ability to recognise the importance of taking care of their bodies and supports them to manage unsafe behaviours at home, school and in the community.
Knowledge gained from this module includes:
After building a model spaceship at school, Harold and his friends Boots and Red, venture into an imaginary world in outer space. As the adventure unfolds children explore:
In this module, students will learn to recognise the importance of relationships and will gain skills to seek help in a variety of situations and will also practice strategies to manage their feelings and emotions.
Outcomes include:
Harold and his friends are ready for their big race at the school athletics carnival, or are they? When one member of their relay team doesn’t show up, what will they do? This fun, engaging narrative provides opportunities to discover:
This module examines the many dimensions of health including feelings and emotions, safe and unsafe situations and behaviours that promote nutrition and wellbeing.
Knowledge gains include:
Harold and his friends have gone camping, but when someone gets injured on a hiking expedition, how will they look after each other and make it back to camp? This module helps children to problem solve and focuses on:
This module educates children about positive relationships, how to seek help, nutrition and how to protect themselves in unsafe environments.
Key focus areas are:
Harold battles to figure out what to give his grandma for her birthday, until his friends Boots and Red, step in and offer some good ideas. This animated story takes us to familiar surroundings where students can:
This module highlights the role that positive relationships plays in their health and wellbeing.
Learning outcomes include:
The Inside Story, set in a Kid’s TV News program, sees a team of young innovative scientists that shrink Harold and place him inside a tiny capsule. The class will be travelling through the body of, Max Questions, and get the ‘inside story’ from Harold himself.
They learn the functions of various body parts and the actions required to keep these systems working well as well as:
Focusing on how positive lifestyle choices help to maintain internal body systems, students identify and practice strategies to resist pressure from others to maintain personal safety.
Learning outcomes include:
Friends and Feelings is presented in engaging comic book-style videos, the lesson revolves around a conflict between old friends, Boots and Red. When Red runs off, upset, Boots starts to feel sick in her stomach. With help from their friendship group, they sort things out.
Learning includes:
This module focuses on friendship and how having a sense of belonging influences health and wellbeing.
Learning outcomes include:
This module focuses on cybersafety, cyber ethics and building positive relationships with friends online and offline. The students explore a range of issues such as password security, risks of sharing personal information, how to communicate respectfully both online and offline, and strategies to handle bullying including cyberbullying as well as:
bCyberwise teaches strategies and skills to combat cyberbullying. In this module, students learn that safe, responsible and respectful behaviour is necessary when interacting with others online as well as face-to-face.
Learning outcomes include:
Harold’s Healthy Foods focuses on increasing vegetable and fruit consumption to empower students to make healthier food and drink choices. Through interactive AV demonstrations and fun activities, students will explore:
Join Mac McHardy, a time travelling detective and his sidekick ‘Conan’, as they gather evidence to persuade McHardy’s great, great granddaughter not to take up smoking. Set in a fantasy world of futuristic steam powered machines, students travel through time, collaborate and explore:
By focusing on decisions related to smoking and vaping, this module helps students develop strategies to reduce harms related to smoking and vaping.
Learning outcomes include:
Using distinctive animated and vox-pop videos, this module tackles the topic of drinking alcohol in an age appropriate context. Students explore concepts such as the effect that alcohol has on body systems, myths and facts about alcohol, laws relating to its sale and reasons why people choose not to consume alcohol as well as:
This module identifies and develops personal strategies to reduce alcohol-related harm and builds understanding of students’ responsibility for personal and community health.
Knowledge gained includes:
This module offers a choice of content on legal drugs or legal and illegal drugs. Students explore the decision-making process and improve decision making skills by looking at choices, consequences, responsibility, facts, and influences as well as:
By recognising their responsibility for the health and safety of themselves and others, students identify strategies to manage unsafe situations and social dilemmas.
Learning outcomes include:
In this updated module, students investigate the importance of respectful relationships for wellbeing, including face to face and online connections.
Students explore how the physical and personal changes at this stage of life impact their behaviour, emotions and relationships. They also learn to recognise, react and report disrespectful, unsafe and potentially predatory behaviour online. They key areas covered include:
Talk About It by Life Ed Qld is designed to help support students explore the concept of identity, develop safe and respectful relationships, and understand and manage the physical and emotional changes that occur during puberty.
Developed with the support of Queensland Health, Talk About It supports schools to deliver curriculum aligned education in the areas of relationships, identity and puberty.
Explore Talk About It via the link below.
Explore Talk About It