Balancing Budgets and Impact

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

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• curiosity
• enterprise

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Develop a response to an economic and business issue, identifying potential costs and benefits AC9HE7S04

General capabilities: Digital Literacy

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 7 & 8 achievement standards: Students respond to the challenges of sustainability through an understanding of the key historical, geographical, political, economic and societal factors involved and how these different factors interrelate.  

NSW Syllabus outcomes: COM4

UN SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

• Target 1.4: By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance.

• Device capable of accessing the internet (1 per student)
• Poster paper, textas, glue, scissors (optional)

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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