Unit Option A: Lifestyle and financial choices

• Assessment A1: Contemporary Lifestyles

  • fast fashion and overconsumption

  • food waste and convenience habits

  • too much screen time / digital dependence

  • low physical activity and sedentary lifestyles

• Assessment A2: Money management

  • Budgeting and saving on a casual income (e.g. irregular shifts, hospitality or retail work, balancing spending and saving)

  • Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services and debt (e.g. Afterpay, Zip, impulse spending, late fees)

  • Impulse spending and overconsumption (e.g. social media influence, fashion, food delivery, entertainment spending)

Unit Option B: Healthy choices for mind and body

• Assessment B1: Recreation and leisure

  • Create a Youth Week event or activity to meet the needs of teenagers in the local community

• Assessment B2: Food and nutrition

  • food choices and habits

  • access to nutritional food

  • food waste and sustainability

  • food advertising

Unit Option C: Relationships and Work Environments

• Assessment C1: Relationships

  • provide clear advice on how to manage conflict and maintain healthy connections between relationships such as:

    • Workplace (e.g., handling a difficult manager or a lazy co-worker)

    • Peer/Friendship (e.g., navigating a fallout in a friendship group)

    • Family (e.g., managing conflict with a sibling or parent)

    • Digital/Online (e.g., dealing with drama in a group chat or gaming community)

    • Year 7 Students (Helping them adjust to the social world of high school)

    • Year 10 Students (Focusing on complex adolescent social dynamics)

    • Young Adults (Focusing on the transition to work or uni life)

• Assessment C2: World of Work

  • Job-readiness and communication in the workplace such as résumés, interviews, teamwork, communication expectations

  • Employment conditions, rights and protections for young workers such as penalty rates, casual work, youth wages, workplace safety

  • The changing nature of work such as gig economy, seasonal work, remote work, automation

Unit Option D: Legal and digital citizenship

• Assessment D1: Law matters

  • Investigate legal issues affecting Australians when travelling overseas - students choose countries that interest them and look at Smart Traveller for stimulus

• Assessment D2: Digital technology and wellbeing

  • Possible demographics: Year 7 students, student-athletes, young content creators, etc

  • How do algorithms and "likes" affect self-esteem and identity?

    • Provide advice on managing screen time and recognizing digital addiction.

  • How has technology changed the way we form and maintain friendships?

    • Give practical tips for respectful communication and mitigating "online drama."

  • What are the legal risks of sharing images or engaging in cyberbullying?

    • Define the responsibilities of a digital citizen and where to get help.

  • Possible references: eSafety Commissioner, Australian legislation,