AC9HP6P02
Years 5 to 6
Health and Physical Education
AC9HP6P02 | Years 5 to 6 Health and Physical Education: Identities and change
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor investigate resources and strategies to manage changes and transitions, including changes associated with puberty
Strand
Personal, social and community health
Substrand
Identities and change
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 5 to 6 Health and Physical Education. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration understanding that experiences of puberty differ, and the resources and strategies chosen to manage these changes are personal
- • Elaboration examining the range of products and resources available to manage the physical changes associated with puberty, including products for managing menstruation
- • Elaboration understanding that physical changes experienced during puberty are linked to rites of passage ceremonies in many First Nations Australian communities
- • Elaboration discussing ways families and cultural groups acknowledge and celebrate major stages of development in young people’s lives
- • Elaboration analysing how roles and responsibilities change as people grow older and examining strategies for managing these increasing responsibilities
- • Elaboration examining how the developmental changes that occur through puberty prepare a persons' body for reproduction
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Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
Read the full Years 5 to 6 Health and Physical Education achievement standard