AC9HP10P09 Year 9 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP10P09 – Year 9 Health and Physical Education: Making healthy and safe choices

Strand

Personal, social and community health

Substrand

Making healthy and safe 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

critique health information, services and media messaging about relationships, lifestyle choices, health decisions and behaviours to evaluate their influence on individual attitudes and actions

Elaborations

• critiquing health information and services that provide advice and support on issues targeted at specific groups of young people, including support with substance use, healthy food choices, fitness and exercise plans, mental health support, sexual health and personal safety
• analysing the nutritional composition of foods eaten by the First Peoples of Australia and explaining how the information could be used to increase health benefits for everyone
• evaluating strategies and actions to increase personal safety and planning to promote these in the school and community
• investigating health issues specific to First Nations Australian communities and proposing proactive community strategies for promoting better access and health outcomes; for example, remote area dialysis buses and community-based treatment options
• discussing how the portrayal of sexual relationships in TV shows, advertisements, movies, popular music and online content (such as pornography) may influence people’s beliefs about respectful, safe and consensual relationships

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.