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

Online

The Conversation - Understanding immunisation and vaccination

A series of articles about vaccination and immunisation including: explanations on so-called ‘herd immunity’; myth-busting; the research on the claims made by those who are anti-vaccination; and case studies of immunisation against polio, small pox, HIV, influenza, measles, and others. Each article is about 600-800 words.The ...

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Years 9 and 10: Resilience, rights and respectful relationships

This resource explores eight topics of social and emotional learning across Levels 9 and 10 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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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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Writing in Health and Physical Education

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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Health campaigns: Sexual health

Students explore the purpose of health campaigns and identify the components of a successful campaign. In groups, they develop their own campaign with a sexual health theme.

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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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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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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 ...

Interactive

Assess your classroom environment

Not every classroom is specifically designed to respond to the needs of all students. Using this interactive questionnaire, audit a classroom environment and create a task list of simple changes that can be made to create a more space inclusive for neurodivergent students.

Video

Get ready to learn! Interoception and self-regulation

Interoception (mindful body awareness) refers to the perception, recognition and understanding of the internal physical states. These body signals can be understood as emotions and/or feelings which can then be responded to. Self-regulation is the ability to moderate or control emotions and actions in order to function ...