Year 8 Health & Physical Education
Year 8 Health & Physical Education on VCE Vault: 12 lessons written for Year 8 (Victorian Curriculum), each with worked examples, practice questions and Aari, an AI tutor. The first 4 lessons are free; the whole subject is a one-off A$8.99.
Lessons
Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Body Image, Identity and Media (free) — Analyse how media and social influences shape body image and identity in adolescence.
- Stress — Understanding and Managing (free) — Explain the stress response and apply evidence-based stress management strategies.
Movement and Physical Activity
- Sport and Physical Activity — Rules, Strategy and Tactics (free) — Analyse game strategies and tactics and apply decision-making in dynamic movement contexts.
- Energy Systems and Exercise Physiology — Describe the three energy systems and explain which is used for different types of activity.
- Advanced Training Principles and Periodisation — Apply advanced training principles including periodisation to design a seasonal training program.
- Injury Prevention and Safe Movement — Apply injury prevention principles to sport and physical activity.
Body Systems and Nutrition
- The Immune System and Disease Prevention (free) — Describe the immune system's function and explain vaccination and disease prevention strategies.
- Nutrition for Performance and Health — Apply nutritional knowledge to evaluate food choices for performance, growth and health in adolescence.
Personal and Community Health
- Alcohol and Other Drugs — Decision Making — Analyse factors influencing drug use decisions and apply harm minimisation strategies.
- Reproductive and Sexual Health — Describe aspects of reproductive health and explain how to access accurate health information and services.
- Environmental Health — Food Safety and Public Health — Explain how environmental factors affect community health and describe public health interventions.
- Health Advocacy and Community Action — Design and evaluate a health promotion action addressing a real community health issue.