Year 7 Health – Term 3 (WA Curriculum): Building Healthy and Active Communities

What this unit covers

In Term 3, Year 7 Health in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Building Healthy and Active Communities”.

Students explore preventive health practices, the benefits of physical activity, media influences, and relationship impacts to develop skills for creating healthy and active communities.

Lesson sequence (10 lessons)

The unit breaks down into the following lesson-by-lesson sequence — each title below is a teachable lesson, in order:

1. Sun Safety Strategies for Active Outdoor Communities
2. Applying the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating in Your Daily Life
3. Road Safety Rules and Guidelines for Young People
4. Discovering the Health Benefits of Physical Activity and Recreation
5. How Physical Activity Builds Social Connections in Communities
6. Analysing Television Advertising's Impact on Health Choices
7. Identifying Media Influence on Body Image and Lifestyle Decisions
8. Building Respectful Relationships: The Power of Empathy and Respect
9. Understanding Power and Coercion in Peer and Family Relationships
10. Applying Online Safety Protocols to Enhance Digital Relationships

Curriculum codes in this unit

Content codes:

Reading the codes: WA codes (the ones starting with WA) pack the year level, learning area, strand and content number into one string, while the national Australian Curriculum v9 uses a different anatomy that starts with AC9 — same content family, different labels. Our complete WA Curriculum guide decodes both, character by character.

Planning notes for Term 3

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 3 runs from Monday 20 July to Friday 25 September — 10 weeks for WA public schools. With 10 lessons in this unit, that leaves breathing room for assessment, moderation and the weeks that disappear to carnivals, camps and public holidays — plan the assessable work to land two to three weeks before the end of term rather than in the final week.