AC9HP8P09 Year 7 Health and Physical Education

AC9HP8P09 – Year 7 Health and Physical Education: Making healthy and safe choices

Strand

Personal, social and community health

Substrand

Making healthy and safe 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

investigate how media and influential people impact attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours in relation to health, safety, relationships and wellbeing

Elaborations

• analysing the credibility, validity and relevance of health messages conveyed by different sources (including news sites, bloggers, influencers and social media advertising) and applying credible information to health-related decisions
• investigating how messages related to food are portrayed in the media and how this may impact decision-making in relation to health and wellbeing
• exploring and evaluating the accessibility and reliability of health information sources from the media that target young people in relation to their health, wellbeing, body, sexuality, relationships and other health issues
• exploring health campaigns targeting First Nations Australian young people and discussing the messages and strategies used to promote and enhance their health; for example, Deadly Choices, Don’t Make Smokes Your Story and Yarn Safe
• analysing how messages related to sexual relationships are portrayed in different forms of media and how they may influence the way people act within relationships

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.