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BLM 1 Looking after yourself

What does it mean to be healthy?
What does ‘risk’ mean?
What factors placed Jane at risk – how was her behaviour affecting her health and safety?
Were Jane’s study practices successful?
Who could Jane have talked to about her study habits? Who could have helped her?
What can you do to stay healthy?

BLM 2 Taking Risks

Some risk taking is good.
If you don’t take risks you don’t have fun.
Boys take too many risks.
You take more risks when you are with your friends.
If you take risks you either get hurt or get into trouble.

BLM 3 Listening to your inner voice

POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES / Say YES
I would love to be a House Captain.
I think I would do a good job.
My parents would be proud.
I would learn a lot about leadership and making speeches.
I might win. / Say NO
My friends will still like me if I don’t do it.
I will protect myself from being disappointed if I lose.
Someone else will get a chance to be House Captain.
NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES / I might lose.
People might laugh at me if I lose.
I would be disappointed if I lose.
My speech might be really bad.
I might be too nervous to make the speech. / My friends might think I’m weak.
I’ll miss out on being a House Captain.
I will be disappointed with myself for not being brave enough.
I might not get an opportunity like this again.

BLM 4 Listening to your inner voice

POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES / Say YES
/ Say NO
NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES

BLM 5 The art of saying NO

No one will know. / Stop being a wuss. / I’ve done it hundreds of times.
You won’t get hurt. / Everyone does it. / You can’t come with us if you don’t.
I won’t tell anyone. / Everyone will laugh at you if you don’t. / Why don’t you grow up?
You won’t be our friend if you don’t. / Do you think we don’t know what we’re doing? / Everyone’s parents let them.
We won’t get caught. / Non-verbal: They look at each other and roll their eyes and laugh at you. / Non-verbal: They exclude you at lunchtime.

BLM 6 The art of saying NO

You have just finished a football game about a kilometre from your home. Your parents are shopping and can’t pick you up. They had arranged with you to walk home. It’s raining and cold. Parents of a friend offer you a lift. The car is already full and they say you can squeeze into the back without a seat belt because it’s not far to your home. / On the way home from school, your best friend suggests that you both catch a bus into the city to meet someone that she has met on the internet. Your friend has been chatting with him on-line for weeks and really likes him. Your parents will be at work till later in the evening so you will get home before they do if you go.
You go to a friend’s birthday party. There are so many kids there and some are outside. You go outside and see some kids from school at the back of the yard and they are drinking from a bottle of vodka. One of the kids stole it from her house. They offer you some. / You are at the beach for the day with your friends. One of them smokes. When she gets out a packet, she offers them around to everyone. Most take one. The packet is then offered to you.
One day a friend is already in the line at the canteen and he says he will get you want you want. You hand over your money. He returns after being served and hands over your food and your money too. He said that no one noticed when he took the food without paying. He says that you can take a turn getting lunch the same way tomorrow. / When you’re waiting to cross the highway after a trip to the shopping centre, one of your friends runs across on a red light. Everyone laughs and she yells for everyone else to do the same. Another friend does it too, and a car has to brake and the driver winds down the window and yells at him. This makes everyone laugh even more. The two on the other side of the road yell that it’s your turn.

BLM 7 Wasted

My talents / skills / What my talents / skills may allow my to do in the future

BLM 8 Assessment Short Answer

ANSWERALLQUESTIONS BELOW

Q1 / Why is it important to stay healthy?
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Q2 / From your classroom discussion, what are three ways to ensure you stay healthy?
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Q3 / Choose one of your answers from Q2 and describe two ways that a teenager can incorporate this in to their life to help them stay healthy
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Q4 / What does the term risk taking mean?
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Q5 / Use an example covered in class to describe why certain risk taking behaviours are dangerous
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Q6 / List three risk taking behaviours that were identified in the material covered in class
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Q7 / Use an example covered in class to describe how risk taking can negatively impact on a teenager’s life? Remember to include impacts to the individual, their family, friends and school life.
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Q8 / What are two ways that other people can make you feel pressured into taking a dangerous risk?
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Q9 / List three ways in which Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones or River Phoenix could have received help to stop them from engaging in risk-taking behaviours.
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Q10 / Describe, in detail, how one of these ways could have helped Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones or River Phoenix whose lives were all wasted at a young age due to risk-taking behaviour. Remember to include who could have helped them, what help they could have offered and where they could have gone to seek this help.
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BLM 9 Assessment – Extended Response

CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING AND ANSWER IN DETAIL

A. / Consider the following scenario and explain in detail how you would deal with the situation to ensure that you did not engage in risk taking behaviour. Use strategies identified in class and your knowledge of harm-minimisation to describe how you would reach your final decision.
You and your best friends are at the local shopping centre during the school holidays. Your friends suggest that you go to see a new movie playing that has a rating of MA15+. As you are only 13, this means you will have to sneak into the cinema. Your parents are expecting you home at 4pm but the movie does not finish until 4.30pm.
You tell your friends that you are expected home at 4pm and they say that you should text your parents that you are going back to one of their houses for dinner. You are hesitant to sneak into the cinema as you know the consequences if you are caught, and do not want your parents to find out. When you tell your friends this, they say that you are boring and never want to do anything fun.
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B. / You have been asked to write a letter to be sent out to all drivers who pass their driving test in Victoria. Your letter will need to include the following information:
  • An explanation of risk-taking behaviour
  • An example of risk-taking behaviour involving young drivers
  • Information on Victoria’s road toll from the research you conducted in class
  • Three strategies that the young driver could use to ensure they are not pressured into taking dangerous risks on the road.
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Dear ‘P plate’ driver,
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Yours sincerely,
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