AC9HP6P02 Year 5 Health and Physical Education

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

investigate resources and strategies to manage changes and transitions, including changes associated with puberty

Elaborations

• 1 understanding that experiences of puberty differ, and the resources and strategies chosen to manage these changes are personal
• 2 examining the range of products and resources available to manage the physical changes associated with puberty, including products for managing menstruation
• 3 understanding that physical changes experienced during puberty are linked to rites of passage ceremonies in many First Nations Australian communities
• 4 discussing ways families and cultural groups acknowledge and celebrate major stages of development in young people’s lives
• 5 analysing how roles and responsibilities change as people grow older and examining strategies for managing these increasing responsibilities
• 6 examining how the developmental changes that occur through puberty prepare a persons' body for reproduction

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