Descriptors›Health and Physical Education›Years 7 to 8›Personal, social and community health›Identities and change›AC9HP8P03
AC9HP8P03 Years 7 to 8 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP8P03 | Years 7 to 8 Health and Physical Education: Identities and change

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor examine how roles, decision-making, and levels of power, coercion and control within relationships can be influenced by gender stereotypes
Strand
Personal, social and community health
Substrand
Identities and change

This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 7 to 8 Health and Physical Education. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration exploring scenarios in texts that demonstrate how gender inequality can arise from intergenerational patterns of inequity and unequal power in relationships
  • • Elaboration examining how gender roles and stereotypes can influence beliefs and decisions about self, friendships, sexual relationships, sexual behaviour, contraceptive use, substance use and future life plans
  • • Elaboration identifying those positive character attributes and strengths that are valued regardless of gender
  • • Elaboration investigating strategies that have been successful in challenging harmful or limiting stereotypes, attitudes or practices

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