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Students will share their views about being a teenager in today’s world. They will participate in a speed-dating type activity to consider aspects of teenage identity and the ways that teenagers are portrayed in the media and perceived by other generations.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

understand that different people have different ideas and perspectives about teenage identity.

Success criteria:

Students can...

engage in conversations about their identity as individuals and as part of a generation and intergenerational connections.

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This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

critical thinking
collaboration
communication
curiosity
empathy
reflection
social skills

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 9 & 10 Health and Physical Education:

Analyse factors that shape identities and evaluate how individuals influence the identities of others (AC9HP10P01)

Relevant parts of Year 9 & 10 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students propose and evaluate personal strategies to manage their identities, emotions and responses to change.

NSW Syllabus outcomes: PD1-2

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability

Space set up the style of a speed dating event where tables are separated and each table has two chairs
Talking Points About Teenage Identity presentation (to be displayed where all students can see it).

This is a Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low - set up space, introduce the activity and oversee students moving between tables.

We don’t have any related professional courses for this lesson at the moment, but we do have heaps of other Cool professional learning here.

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