Year 10 – Health
Year 10 – Health
OverviewYear 10 Health provides a wide variety of studies and practices to enable the student to explore and develop skills relating to individual and community health outcomes, including competencies relating to interpretation and explanation of data relating to health trends, common diseases, and the health status of Australians. They will develop the skills to identify and explain factors affecting physical, social, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and wellbeing. Students will participate in a variety of recreational physical activities to gain an understanding of the benefits of life-long physical activity. Students will analyse the positive and negative health outcomes of a range of personal behaviours, including identifying safe sex practices and key components of healthy sexual relationships. They will outline the importance of nutrition and the consequences of nutritional imbalance on health and wellbeing and identify and describe strategies that address current trends in the nutritional status of Australians.
| Units / Topics | Types of Assessment |
|---|---|
| Dimensions of health and wellbeing | Australia’s Health data analysis task |
| Factors influencing health and wellbeing | Health and Wellbeing and Health Status test |
| Indicators of Australia’s health status | Nutrition group assignment |
| Leading causes of disease, including the National Health Priority Areas | End of Semester examination |
| Australia’s health care system | |
| Nutrition | |
| Physical activity benefits and guidelines | |
| Sexual health |
Future Directions
Satisfactory completion of this subject will provide a sound foundation for students to proceed to VCE Health and Human Development Units 1 to 4