Lesson summary
Students develop a deeper understanding of how to assess the impact of charitable organisations by exploring different criteria and conducting a short case study.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- consider different criteria for valuing and giving to a charitable organisation
- investigate a non-profit through a case study.
Success criteria:
Students can...
- offer various criteria for understanding a charitable organisation
- use a cost-benefit analysis.
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Lesson details
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- critical thinking
- ethical understanding
- global citizenship
Curriculum Mapping
Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Years 9 and 10 Economics and Business
- Develop and evaluate strategies using environmental, economic or social criteria; recommend a strategy and explain the predicted impacts (AC9HE9S05, AC9HE1005).
General capabilities: Digital Literacy
Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability
NSW Syllabus outcomes: COM5
Relevant parts of Year 9 & 10 achievement standards: Students use economic and business knowledge, concepts and terms to develop descriptions, explanations and reasoned arguments that synthesise research findings.
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
- Device capable of projecting media to the class
- Option for students to use their own internet-connected devices
- Butcher’s paper
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.
Related Professional Learning
Ethical Understanding in the Australian Curriculum v9
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