How is technology impacting on our health, safety and wellbeing? - Stage 3 PDHPE unit

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Stage 3 PDHPE unit exploring how technology affects students’ health, safety and wellbeing. Teaching and learning activities guide students to investigate impacts of technology, reflect on their own technology use, and make informed personal choices for daily life. The unit is structured around an essential question—how technology affects health, safety and wellbeing—supported by lesson sequences on our technology, sharing information, respect, safe and unsafe use, online behaviour, bystander actions, mental and physical health, guidelines for activity and screen time, and technology with physical activity.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryPresentations

FormatDOCX

Pages58

Reading Time20 min

AccessFree to download

Table of Contents

Big idea and key concept

Essential question

Unit description

Contextual statement

Propositions in action

Lesson 1 – Our technology

Key Inquiry Questions and syllabus content

Teaching and learning activities

Lesson 2 – Sharing information

Key Inquiry Questions and syllabus content

Teaching and learning activities

Lesson 3 – Respect

Key Inquiry Questions and syllabus content

Teaching and learning activities

Lesson 4 – Safe and unsafe use of technology

Key Inquiry Questions and syllabus content

Teaching and learning activities

Lesson 5 – Managing online behaviour

Key Inquiry Questions and syllabus content

Teaching and learning activities

Lesson 6 – Being a bystander

Key Inquiry Questions and syllabus content

Teaching and learning activities

Lesson 7 – Managing our own mental and physical health

Key Inquiry Questions and syllabus content

Teaching and learning activities

Lesson 8 – Guidelines for physical activity and screen time

Key Inquiry Questions and syllabus content

Teaching and learning activities

Lesson 9 – Technology and physical activity

Key Inquiry Questions and syllabus content

Teaching and learning activities

Unit evaluation

Glossary

Assessment framework

Appendix 1 – How does technology impact on our health, safety and wellbeing?

Appendix 2 – Device use

Appendix 3 – Concept map

Appendix 4a – Y chart – Respect example

Appendix 4b – Y chart – Respect template

Appendix 5 – Do’s and Don’ts of online usage

Appendix 6 – Y chart – Bullying template

Appendix 7a – 5 whys – Teacher example

Appendix 7b – 5 whys – student template

Appendix 8a – Strategies for positive mental health – teacher example

Appendix 8b – Strategies for positive mental health – student template

Appendix 9 – Daily guidelines journal

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FAQs

What is the unit’s big idea about technology?

The unit’s big idea is that technology impacts students’ health, safety and wellbeing, challenging how risk and choices relate to everyday technology use.

How does the essential question guide learning activities?

The essential question—how technology is impacting on our health, safety and wellbeing—drives both teaching and learning, with activities designed to help students build understanding and answer it over time.

What are students expected to do by the end of the unit?

Students investigate technology impacts, reflect on their own technology use, develop strategies for seeking help when needed, and learn to make personal choices for healthier, safer daily use.

Which topics are covered across the lessons?

The unit covers lessons on our technology, sharing information, respect, safe and unsafe technology use, managing online behaviour, being a bystander, mental and physical health, screen time and physical activity guidelines, and technology’s link to physical activity.

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