AC9HP8M05 Year 7 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP8M05 – Year 7 Health and Physical Education: Making active choices

Strand

Movement and physical activity

Substrand

Making active choices

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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 utilise community spaces and outdoor settings, and evaluate strategies to support increased use of these spaces

Elaborations

• evaluating different strategies used to manage and protect environments where physical activities take place, such as bushwalking trails, surf beaches, skate parks and sporting fields
• investigating different approaches to custodial responsibility for Country/Place used by First Nations Australian communities to support the use of local settings and spaces for physical activity while protecting the environment
• designing and evaluating physical activity options that reimagine the use of community spaces to encourage more active lifestyles among their peer group
• promoting an understanding of minimal-impact outdoor recreation in the local area

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASHPEY78

Year 7 Health and Physical Education Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students analyse factors that influence identities, emotions and responses to change, and describe strategies to respond to these influences. They analyse how stereotypes, respect, empathy and valuing diversity influence relationships. Students analyse the effectiveness of assertive communication strategies, protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies applied online and offline. They analyse health information and messages to propose strategies that enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing. Students apply and transfer movement skills and movement concepts across a range of situations. They implement and evaluate the effectiveness of movement strategies on movement outcomes. Students propose and evaluate strategies designed to achieve personal health, fitness and wellbeing outcomes. They select, use and refine strategies to support inclusion, fair play and collaboration across a range of movement contexts.