Lesson summary
Students explore and assess the impact of non-profits against key criteria from The Life You Can Save and work together to use a cost-benefit analysis to better evaluate the work of charitable organisations.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- understand how to assess the work and impact of non-profits
- collaborate on investigating the work of a non-profit.
Success criteria:
Students can...
- apply criteria in the assessment of an organisation
- use a cost-benefit analysis to help evaluate the impact of an investment.
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Lesson details
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- critical thinking
- communication
- empathy
- ethical understanding
Curriculum Mapping
Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 9 & 10 Business and Economics
- Develop and evaluate a response to an economic and business issue, using cost-benefit analysis or criteria to decide on a course of action (AC9HE9S04, AC9HE10S04)
General capabilities: Digital Literacy
Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability
NSW Syllabus outcomes: COM5
Relevant parts of Year 9 & 10 achievement standards: Students develop an evidence-based response to an economic and business issue. They evaluate a response, using appropriate criteria to decide on a course of action.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
UN SDG 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
- Target 10.b: Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to States where the need is greatest, in particular, least developed countries, African countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in accordance with their national plans and programmes.
Resources Required
- Shared digital devices for access to a website
Additional Info
This lesson has been developed with the support of The Life You Can Save.
The Life You Can Save conducts research to identify non-profits running highly impactful programs that address the multiple dimensions of poverty. They also help connect people who want to donate money and resources with these non-profits to maximise the impact of their gifts. They aim to create a world where everyone has an opportunity to build a better life and where there’s no suffering or death due to extreme poverty. The Life You Can Save was founded by Melbourne-born Peter Singer, widely recognised as one of the world’s most influential contemporary philosophers, to advance the ideas in his 2009 book The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty (republished 2019). Since then, they’ve worked to introduce the ideas from Professor Singer’s book to new audiences, inspiring people to help others experiencing poverty around the world and empowering them to make the greatest impact possible.
Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion.
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