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Matrix Strand D: Healthy Communities and Environments

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Progress indicators

Matrix Strand D: Healthy Communities and Environments

Achievement aims Progress indicators
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5
Societal Attitudes and Beliefs Takes individual actions to make a specific context safe.

Takes actions, as a member of a group, that contribute to making a specific context safe.
Examines how people's attitudes, values, and actions contribute to healthy physical and social environments. Identifies how community and environmental factors influence health care.

Identifies how community and environmental factors influence physical activity practices.
Investigates and describes lifestyle factors that contribute to common health problems across the lifespan.

Investigates and describes media influences that contribute to common health problems across the lifespan.
Investigates and discusses the ways societal influences have an impact on the well-being of student communities.
Community Resources Identifies people who can help with health care in a range of situations. Identifies people or other resources in their community who can contribute to a healthy community.

Explains how local community resources can contribute to a healthy community.
Participates in a communal event.

Describes how participation in communal events enhances the well-being of the community.
Investigates a range of community resources.

Evaluates the contribution that a range of community resources makes to the well-being of the community.
Investigates community services that promote and support people's well-being.

Takes action to promote personal and group involvement in a specific context.
Rights, Responsibilities, and Laws Understands rules and responsibilities for being in a group. Uses simple guidelines and practices to contribute to a safe and happy environment. Researches and describes current health and safety guidelines and practices in a specific, familiar context.

Takes action to enhance the effectiveness of current health and safety guidelines and practices in a specific, familiar context.
Identifies specific individual responsibilities for the care and safety of self and others.

Takes collective action for the care and safety of others in a wider community context.
Identifies the rights and responsibilities of consumers.

Uses information about the rights and responsibilities of consumers to evaluate specific health-related products and services.
People and the Environment Identifies obvious hazards in the home, school, and local environment.

Follows simple safety practices.
Shares their ideas and beliefs about the ways in which the environment contributes to well-being.

Works with others to make improvements to the environment.
Plans a programme to enhance a social or physical aspect of the environment that needs improvement.

Takes action to implement a programme to enhance a social or physical aspect of the environment.
Creates an action plan that specifies individual responsibilities for the care and safety of others in context.

Takes collective action to implement an action plan that specifies individual responsibilities for the care and safety of others in context.
Investigates and evaluates features of a specific environment that affect people's well-being.

Takes action on their findings from an investigation to enhance features of a specific environment that affect people's well-being.

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