AC9HP10M05 Year 9 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP10M05 – 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 that promote health and social outcomes to design and evaluate participation strategies for themselves and others

Elaborations

• creating and evaluating proposals to promote the use of natural settings within the local community for physical activity
• designing and critiquing a strategy to involve family, friends and members of the community in celebrations based around culturally significant physical activities to promote a sense of connection with and belonging to the community
• investigating community-based campaigns to promote physical activity participation and determining key elements of success that could be replicated in a school-based campaign
• identifying local natural resources and community spaces where individuals and groups can connect and participate in physical and social activities

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.