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Health and Physical Education / Year 7 and 8 / Personal, social and community health / Interacting with others

Curriculum content descriptions

examine the roles of respect, empathy, power and coercion in developing respectful relationships (AC9HP8P04)

Elaborations
  • analysing how behaviours, actions and responses to situations can change depending on whether they are by themselves, with friends or with family
  • recognising the impact bullying and harassment can have on relationships, including online relationships
  • showing respect for cultural norms and sensitivities when building relationships with people from different cultural backgrounds
  • proposing strategies for addressing racism towards First Nations Australians, including the role of bystanders in promoting respectful interactions and challenging disrespect and discrimination
  • examining what constitutes disrespectful, harmful or violent behaviour within peer, family and intimate relationships
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Empathy,  Respect,  Social competence,  Social relations

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Non-Verbal Communication

This lesson plan supports students to consider the many ways in which people communicate non-verbally, to identify their own preferences, and begin to think about the importance of this concept when interacting with others who may be different from them.

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Resolving conflicts

This comprehensive resource builds students’ skills in the process of resolving conflicts. Topics include understanding the nature of conflict, being able to identify and control emotions in conflict, using communication skills effectively, and application of the skills to conflict situations.

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Confidence Building

This resource is designed to help in facilitating the development of confidence in young people. Self-respect, respect, identification and use of strengths and weaknesses, healthy life habits, the significance of clarifying values, avoidance of stereotyping, and development of personal power are all covered throughout this ...

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Growing and developing healthy relationships: Activities

Find a range of lesson plans for topics such as managing relationships, puberty, resilience, body image, bullying, and peer pressure across a range of year levels.

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First Day Series 2

This resource contains five lessons which explore key themes in First Day series 2 including gender diversity, leadership, allyship, advocacy and media representation. Each lesson includes discussion starters, a relevant First Day clip to view and respond to, and suggested learning tasks to reinforce and demonstrate student ...

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Are you talking to me?

This unit is designed to be the initial learning unit in English in Year 7. It uses a novel as the basis for learning resilience strategies to assist students in coping with change and with bullying. The recommended text used in this unit is the novel Samurai kids: white crane, but many of the activities could be adapted ...

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RELATE: Respectful relationships program - Stage 2

This resource is a one-term Respectful Relationships program consisting of 8 scaffolded sessions covering topics such as Creating a group agreement, Assessing prior knowledge, Difference between gender stereotypes and expectations, Respectful relationship qualities, Non-consensual image sharing, Decision making frameworks, ...

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What's OK and what's not OK

Students deepen their understanding of 'what's OK' and what's 'not OK' in friendships/romantic relationships and find examples in the film 'Tagged'.

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Qualities of respectful relationships

Students identify the qualities of a respectful relationship, problem solve in a range of bullying, harassment and stressful situations and work towards enhancing an existing relationship by making informed choices about future actions.

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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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#Game On

This resource is based around a drama about a group of students who find themselves in situations that catch them off-guard and shows the consequences of making poor decisions online. It includes 5 short videos and associated lesson plans for upper primary and for lower secondary students.

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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 ...

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Years 7 and 8: Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships

This set of learning materials covers eight topics of Social and Emotional Learning across the Years 7 and 8 levels of schooling. Topics include Emotional Literacy; Personal strengths; Positive Coping; Problem Solving; Stress Management; Help Seeking; Gender and Identity; and Positive Gender Relationships.

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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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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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Establishing and maintaining respectful relationships online and offline

This resource includes learning sequences on the following topics: Qualities of respectful relationships, The importance of consent, Trust your gut, and Respectful relationships in an online world.

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Understanding cultural difference: Aboriginal cultures and their games

This unit focuses on developing an understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal cultures through participating in traditional Aboriginal games. Students explore differences in family structure and the nature of relationships. They will regularly reflect on their own family structure and relationships to identify similarities ...

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Stronger together

This unit focuses on developing knowledge and understanding of diversity and inclusion for individuals and the community. Students will develop skills and strategies to support inclusivity as an individual and also within the school and wider community. They will apply these skills in a number of settings and develop empathy ...

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Skills and strategies for striking or fielding games

In this unit, students will explicitly learn and practise the skill required to be successful in striking/fielding games and explore the elements of effort, space, time, objects and people in developing a batting (offensive) and/or a fielding (defensive) strategy for the Home Runs (softball) activity.