What do students learn in Year 8 Health and Physical Education?

The Australian Curriculum v9 has 19 Health and Physical Education content descriptions for Year 8 (some are written for a band of years: Years 7 and 8). They are listed on this page with their codes.

How do I plan a Year 8 Health and Physical Education lesson for a content description?

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Year 8 Health and Physical Education in the Australian Curriculum

19 content descriptions from Version 9.0. Choose "Plan this" to open a lesson plan set up for that content description.

Content descriptions

Personal, social and community health

Identities and change

AC9HP8P01
analyse and reflect on the influence of values and beliefs on the development of identities
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AC9HP8P02
analyse the impact of changes and transitions, and devise strategies to support themselves and others through these changes
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AC9HP8P03
examine how roles, decision-making, and levels of power, coercion and control within relationships can be influenced by gender stereotypes
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Interacting with others

AC9HP8P04
examine the roles of respect, empathy, power and coercion in developing respectful relationships
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AC9HP8P05
investigate strategies that influence how communities value diversity and propose actions they can take to promote inclusion in their communities
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AC9HP8P06
analyse factors that influence emotional responses and devise strategies to self-manage emotions
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AC9HP8P07
explain and apply skills and strategies to communicate assertively and respectfully when seeking, giving or denying consent
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Making healthy and safe choices

AC9HP8P08
refine protective behaviours and evaluate community resources to seek help for themselves and others
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AC9HP8P09
investigate how media and influential people impact attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours in relation to health, safety, relationships and wellbeing
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AC9HP8P10
plan and implement strategies, using health resources, to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing
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Movement and physical activity

Moving our bodies

AC9HP8M01
analyse, refine and transfer movement skills in a variety of movement situations
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AC9HP8M02
design and demonstrate how movement strategies can be manipulated to improve movement outcomes
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AC9HP8M03
demonstrate and explain how movement concepts related to effort, space, time, objects and people can be manipulated to improve movement outcomes
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Making active choices

AC9HP8M04
participate in physical activities designed to improve fitness and wellbeing to investigate the impact of regular participation on health, fitness and wellbeing
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AC9HP8M05
participate in physical activities that utilise community spaces and outdoor settings, and evaluate strategies to support increased use of these spaces
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AC9HP8M06
design and justify strategies to increase physical activity levels to achieve health and wellbeing outcomes
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Learning through movement

AC9HP8M07
propose and evaluate movement strategies and skills that would be most effective in different movement situations
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AC9HP8M08
investigate modifications to equipment, rules and scoring systems that support fair play and inclusive participation
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AC9HP8M09
practise and apply leadership, collaboration and group decision-making processes when participating in a range of physical activities
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Elaborations and achievement standards on the Australian Curriculum website

Other Year 8 learning areas

Questions teachers ask

What do students learn in Year 8 Health and Physical Education?: The Australian Curriculum v9 has 19 Health and Physical Education content descriptions for Year 8 (some are written for a band of years: Years 7 and 8). They are listed on this page with their codes.
How do I plan a Year 8 Health and Physical Education lesson for a content description?: Choose "Plan this" next to the content description. Heapso opens a lesson plan set to Year 8 Health and Physical Education with that code linked, so the plan is built around it. You can change anything before Pip writes.

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