Health and physical education / Year 9 and 10 / Personal, Social and Community Health / Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing

Curriculum content descriptions

Investigate how empathy and ethical decision making contribute to respectful relationships (ACPPS093)

Elaborations
  • investigating the characteristics of positive, respectful relationships and the rights and ethical responsibilities of individuals in relationships
  • investigating how the balance of power influences the nature of relationships and proposing actions that can be taken when a relationship is not respectful
  • comparing own decisions with those of others and acknowledging others’ right to act differently and to change their mind
  • demonstrating and advocating appropriate bystander behaviour when participating in online interactions, for example in situations where another persons photo has been tagged without permission, sexting and posting explicit content
  • Practising skills to deal with challenging situations such as communicating choices, expressing opinions and initiating contingency plans
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural understanding
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
ScOT terms

Ethics,  Empathy,  Respect

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Teaching and learning about pornography in Health education

This resource provides insights into the use of pornography by young people with the aim of enabling teachers to identify the extent to which they might teach about this topic within the remit of Health education. The resource provides some ideas for ways to inform parents about what students will be learning about pornography, ...

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Resolving conflicts

Through this resource, students explore some effective conflict resolution strategies, including identifying conflict triggers, understanding the role of emotions in conflicts, and strategies to reduce conflicts.

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Confidence Building

This resource is designed to facilitate the development of confidence in young people. Giving and earning respect, identifying strengths, making decisions that are consistent with personal values, improving well-being through good health and physical fitness, and developing personal power are key components of the resource.

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The YeS Project

The YeS Project is a workshop-based program supporting young people to act as positive leaders and effective friends in all their social spaces, especially online. The resource enables students to learn about their digital communities, and to aim to make improvements to online safety practices and cultures within their ...

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Young and eSafe

These short videos and associated lesson plans are designed to help young people create a positive online world and reinforce respectful and responsible online behaviour. Find topics such as Respect, Responsibility, Empathy, Resilience and Critical thinking.

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Tagged

The award-winning short film Tagged is supported by teaching resources that encourage young people to reflect on the real life consequences of cyberbullying, sharing intimate images, and a negative digital reputation.

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Be Deadly Online

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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Consent & respectful relationships

In this lesson, students learn that consent can take many forms and that there are different ways to ask for and give consent to support respectful relationships. Short videos and discussion questions scaffold the resource.

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Young Deadly Free: How to have healthy relationships

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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Respectful Relationships: Teaching and Learning

Find comprehensive resources organised by stages of schooling including a scope and sequence, teaching and learning activities and links to resources. The activities provide explicit opportunities for developmentally appropriate learning about consent education, gender stereotypes and roles, keeping safe, respectful relationships ...

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How to be an ally

Students learn what it means to be an ally, and identify practical ways to support others as well as strategies they can use for self-care. Through this lesson, they recognise examples of allyship, identify strategies for being a good ally and identify self-care strategies to use as an ally.

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Enhancing interpersonal skills

Students explore what constitutes respectful relationships, what influences inclusivity and equality in relationships, and how to seek help if something isn’t right. They identify interpersonal skills that build and maintain respectful and inclusive relationships.

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Building respect in relationships

Students explore what constitutes respectful relationships, what influences inclusivity and equality in relationships, and how to seek help if something isn’t right. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to analyse factors and strategies that enhance respectful relationships, articulate interpersonal skills in ...

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First Nations Resource Hub

This set of resources is designed for teachers and other adults working with First Nations students. The resources describe new, hidden forms of disrespect that many young people are engaging with every day online. Find conversation starters, a Coaching Clinic presentation about respect and other useful resources on this webpage.

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See The Hidden Trends of Disrespect

This webpage includes The Algorithm of Disrespect which is an educational tool that simulates a young person’s online experience. It is designed to educate adults about the new, hidden forms of disrespect that young people are engaging with every day online. Find conversation starters and other useful resources through ...

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Child protection units and resources

Find units of work on topics such as Keeping myself safe, My right to be safe, Safe and unsafe relationships, Online/Offline relationships, and Using my personal power positively on this webpage. The resource includes advice about teaching respectful relationships effectively and examples of information appropriate for ...

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More Than This

This learning resource has been developed to support the video series More Than This which is a teen drama that explores the wide range of emotions and challenges that secondary school students face as they explore identity and belonging, gender identity and sexuality, relationships, family and academic pressures and taking ...

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Fox: Unit of work

This unit of work has been written to support the book Fox which is a picture book that explores the themes of betrayal, friendship, jealousy, loneliness, loyalty and wilderness. This unit provides practical teaching ideas, an assessment task and an essay by Robyn Sheahan-Bright.

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Brontide: Unit of work

This unit of work has been written to support the novel Brontide which is a coming of age story about four teenage boys. This unit provides practical teaching ideas and an assessment task.

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How to teach digital citizenship and online safety - Scope and sequence Australian curriculum

This resource provides links to lessons and activities at each level of schooling from Foundation to Year 10 in the area of online safety.