AC9HP10P08 Year 9 Health and Physical Education

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.

plan, rehearse and evaluate strategies for managing situations where their own or others’ health, safety or wellbeing may be at risk

Elaborations

• 1 critiquing the appropriateness and effectiveness of help and support services available for young people in the local community
• 2 proposing and practising a range of realistic responses to scenarios where peers are encouraging them to take unnecessary risks, such as in relation to the use of e-cigarettes, cannabis, psychostimulants, opiates or hallucinogens
• 3 investigating a range of behaviours to determine positive, safe, legal and ethical behaviour when using digital tools and environments and recognising what actions can be taken when behaviour becomes abusive
• 4 planning and practising responses to emergencies where they may be required to administer first aid to a friend or stranger, including CPR
• 5 understanding the factors that impact a person’s ability to seek, give or deny consent, including when a person is affected by alcohol and other drugs, or there is an imbalance of power or coercion within the relationship
• 6 examining practices, policies and processes for ensuring safe blood practices in a range of situations, including not sharing needles, precautions when participating in physical activities and safe practices during sexual activity, including use of condoms and dams

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