Science The Human Bodyusually ages 9–11

Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Understand how lifestyle choices affect the body’s health: a balanced diet, regular exercise, adequate sleep, and avoiding harmful substances (tobacco, alcohol, drugs) help body systems function well, while poor choices increase the risk of disease

How to tell they’ve got it

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Explain how regular exercise strengthens the heart, lungs, and muscles
Describe how a poor diet high in sugar and fat can lead to obesity, tooth decay, and heart problems
State at least two harmful effects of smoking (damages lungs, increases heart disease risk) or alcohol (damages liver, affects brain)

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Can your child explain how what they eat, how much they exercise, and how much they sleep affects how their body works — and why smoking or drugs are harmful?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

Balanced Diet & Food Groupsages 7–9Making lifestyle choices requires knowing what a balanced diet is

Circulation & Breathing Togetherages 9–11Understanding how lifestyle affects health requires knowing how circulatory and respiratory systems interact

The Immune Systemages 9–11Lifestyle choices affect immune health; understanding immune system enriches health reasoning

Healthy Lifestyle Choicesthis skill · ages 9–11

Unlocks

Diet, Exercise & Lifestyleages 10–11Enrichment knowledge of lifestyle choices and health supports formal curriculum study of diet/exercise/lifestyle impact

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Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2TDE6C03low confidenceDesign and Technologies · Levels 5 and 6 · Technologies Contexts strand

VC2TDE4C03low confidenceDesign and Technologies · Levels 3 and 4 · Technologies Contexts strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

Nearby on the map

Circulation & Breathing Togetherages 9–11 Growing Up & Pubertyages 9–11 Heart & Blood Circulationages 9–11 How the Lungs Workages 9–11

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