BELONGING
STAGE 3: Years 5 and 6
Rich Learning Task:
Peer support: Human Rights Advocacy Project
Cross Curriculum Priorities:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Civics and Citizenship
Difference and Diversity
Teaching and Learning Strategies
Assessment Strategies
PDHPE Outcomes
PD3-2 investigates information, community resources and strategies to demonstrate resilience and seek help for themselves and others
PD3-3 evaluates the impact of empathy, inclusion and respect on themselves and others
English Outcomes
EN3-5B Discusses how language is used to achieve a widening range of purposes for a widening range of audiences and contexts.
EN3-1A communicates effectively for a variety of audiences and purposes using increasingly challenging topics, ideas, issues and language forms and features.
EN3-8D Identifies and considers how different viewpoints of their world, including aspects of culture, are represented in texts.
Active Learning- Brainstorming, Group work, Explicit instruction and questioning, and ICT resources
Relevancy- Know students, their culture and their lifestyles, strengthen relevance of activities
Differentiation - individualised feedback, group work designed to fit individual needs; groupings based on ability and shared interest, activities alternative options and choices, variety of resources, respectful tasks
Positive feedback that encourages students learning
Student's assess their strengths and weaknesses as a learner
Informal monitoring of student's learning process
Learning Intention: This unit is designed for students to explore the idea of 'belonging' in the context of student's individual lives and the lives of those around them. Within this unit, students will explore human rights, racism, and the impact racism has on human rights.
Learning activities
Resources
The Little Refugee by Anh Do
The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan
https://www.deadlystory.com/page/culture/history/Apology_to_the_Stolen_Generations
Refer to website in classroom activities. Watch "After the Apology" video clip
Texts discussed, analysed and studied during class time can be used during peer support groups.
Learning Intention: The aim is for students to become more aware of the effects of racism within society and how this can affect an individual's human rights and sense of belonging. The lessons students will engage with will give them the tools to conduct peer support groups, where they will teach younger students about human rights and belonging.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate an understanding of strategies that promote a sense of personal identity and build resilience and respectful relationships
- Develop and use self-management skills that enable them to take personal responsibility for their actions and emotions and take positive action to protect and enhance the health, safety and wellbeing of others
Objectives:
- Use language to shape and make meaning according to purpose, audience and context
- The power of language to explore and express views of themselves as well as the social, cultural, ethical, moral, spiritual and aesthetic dimensions of human experiences