AC9HP8P03 Year 7 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP8P03 – Year 7 Health and Physical Education: Identities and change

Strand

Personal, social and community health

Substrand

Identities and change

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

examine how roles, decision-making, and levels of power, coercion and control within relationships can be influenced by gender stereotypes

Elaborations

• exploring scenarios in texts that demonstrate how gender inequality can arise from intergenerational patterns of inequity and unequal power in relationships
• 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
• identifying those positive character attributes and strengths that are valued regardless of gender
• investigating strategies that have been successful in challenging harmful or limiting stereotypes, attitudes or practices

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.