Health and physical education / Year 7 and 8 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Contributing to healthy and active communities

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Plan and use health practices, behaviours and resources to enhance health, safety and wellbeing of their communities (ACPPS077)

Elaborations
  • investigating preventive health practices relevant to young people, and designing and implementing health promotion activities targeting these practices
  • investigating food-serving recommendations from The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating and producing a guide to help students make healthy choices when buying food from the school canteen
  • examining how different cultures value the contribution of the mind-body-spirit connection to health and wellbeing
  • explore how spiritual connection to Country/Place enhances health and wellbeing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Wellbeing,  Health promotion

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Be on the Safe Side Year 7-8 HPE

  • TLF-IDM019248

This webpage includes a unit of work about how to be a safe, active and responsible citizen on and around the rail network. The resource focuses on identifying the hazards and the hazardous behaviours and influences such as emotions and peer pressure that may impact the decisions young people make on and around the rail ...

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Writing in Health and Physical Education

  • TLF-IDA006084

This practice guide focuses on the types of sentences students should use in their writing in Health and Physical Education. It has been developed for secondary teachers of this learning area. This guide offers guidance for analysing and providing targeted feedback on your students’ sentence structure, grammar and punctuation. ...

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Young Deadly Free: How to have healthy relationships

  • TLF-IDA004778

This resource includes the This is US series of short videos made to explore challenges and issues in the lives of teenage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Topics include relationships, underage drinking, managing friendships and trouble with the law. An accompanying Teacher Resource includes lesson plans ...

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Years 7 and 8: Resilience, rights and respectful relationships

  • TLF-IDA004776

This resource explores eight topics of social and emotional learning across Levels 7 and 8 of schooling. The topics are emotional literacy; personal and cultural strengths; positive coping; problem-solving; stress management; help-seeking; gender and identity; and positive gender relations. Each topic includes background ...

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Be Deadly Online

  • TLF-IDA004869

In this resource, students explore how their digital footprint or reputation builds up over time, and how cyberbullying, sending nudes and sexting can impact themselves, their family and their community. They will discuss the concept of respect in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and how this can ...

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Issues with online communication

  • TLF-IDA005046

Students discuss the positives and challenges of using technology to communicate. They also reflect on their own and other people’s online behaviour.

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Gambling: Identifying influences

  • TLF-IDA003768

In this lesson students consider their circles of influence, identifying influential factors that may contribute to finding ourselves in potentially unsafe situations. Students then explore ways to resist negative influences and encourage positive influences. The class practices responding to situations of gambling harm ...

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