Health and Physical Education / Year 1 and 2 / Personal, social and community health / Making healthy and safe choices

Curriculum content descriptions

investigate a range of health messages and practices in their community and discuss their purposes (AC9HP2P06)

Elaborations
  • identifying poison labels and medicine packaging and understanding to ask an adult before taking medicines
  • discussing how eating a variety of fresh foods can influence health and wellbeing by using The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating
  • investigating how foods are marketed and promoted to children through advertisements in online spaces, promotion in supermarkets, and labelling and packaging
  • exploring sustainable practices that students can implement in the classroom to improve the health and wellbeing of the class, such as composting food waste, creating an edible garden and reducing single-use plastics
  • creating rules and applying them at school and home to implement healthy and manageable practices with their use of digital tools
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Wellbeing,  Health promotion,  Safety

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