AC9HP10M04 Year 9 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP10M04 – Year 9 Health and Physical Education: Making active choices

Strand

Movement and physical activity

Substrand

Making active choices

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Health and Physical Education provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

participate in physical activities designed to enhance health, wellbeing and fitness, and design, apply and evaluate strategies for incorporating these activities into their lives

Elaborations

• participating in a range of physical activities and evaluating individual responses such as heart rate, breathing rate, ability to talk and recovery rate
• performing a range of activities designed to improve fitness and analysing how the activities improve individual components of fitness
• setting realistic physical activity goals, and designing, implementing and evaluating a personalised program to incorporate regular physical activity into their weekly routines

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASHPEY910

Year 9 Health and Physical Education Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students propose and evaluate personal strategies to manage their identities, emotions and responses to change. They evaluate how attitudes and beliefs about equality, respect, diversity and inclusion influence the nature and quality of relationships. Students propose and justify strategies to manage online and offline situations where their own or others’ health, safety, relationships or wellbeing may be at risk. They synthesise health information from credible sources to propose and justify strategies to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. Students evaluate and refine their own and others’ movement skills and performances, and apply movement concepts in challenging or unfamiliar situations. They adapt and transfer movement strategies to unfamiliar situations to achieve successful outcomes. Students propose and evaluate community-based physical activity interventions designed to improve the health, fitness and wellbeing of themselves and others. They apply and evaluate leadership approaches, collaboration strategies and ethical behaviours across a range of movement contexts.