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

Curriculum content descriptions

Critically analyse and apply health information from a range of sources to health decisions and situations (ACPPS095)

Elaborations
  • critiquing and selecting the most suitable and reliable sources of health information according to the decision that needs to be made
  • examining actions to take greater responsibility in relation to their own health
  • critiquing services that provide advice and support on health-related issues, and investigating ways to store and share contact information of these services with other young people
  • evaluating strategies and actions to increase personal safety and planning to promote these in the school and community
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Social services,  Information literacy,  Health promotion

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