Dying To Live - Community Conversations

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Years 9 & 10 Health and Physical Education:

• Plan, implement and critique strategies to enhance health, safety and wellbeing of their communities (ACPPS096)
• Critique behaviours and contextual factors that influence health and wellbeing of diverse communities (ACPPS098)
• Critically analyse and apply health information from a range of sources to health decisions and situations (ACPPS095)

Syllabus outcomes: PDHPE5.6, PDHPE5.7, PDHPE5.8, PDHPE5.13

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding

Cross-curriculum priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures OI.8

Relevant parts of Years 9 & 10 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students critically analyse contextual factors that influence identities, relationships, decisions and behaviours. They analyse the impact attitudes and beliefs about diversity have on community connection and wellbeing. Students access, synthesise and apply health information from credible sources to propose and justify responses to health situations. 

Unit of work: Dying To Live – H&PE – Years 7–10

Time required: 250+ mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – lead students in class discussion, guide students in project planning and implementation

• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Article 1
• Article 2
• Chalk-Talk Prompts
• S.M.A.R.T. Criteria Factsheet
• Sticky notes, butcher’s paper, markers
• Project-specific resources, as identified by students in their planning (such as stationary, access to computers, etc.)
• Project Planning Tool
• Project Checklist

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Community engagement
• Critical thinking
• Creativity
• Cultural understanding
• Empathy
• Ethical understanding
• Problem solving
• Social skills

Dying To Live is a documentary feature film that examines organ and tissue donation and transplantation in Australia through seven different stories that highlight the social, physical and emotional effects of being on the organ donor waiting list. The film also aims to dispel myths about organ and tissue donation while encouraging family conversations so that family members are aware of their loved ones’ donation intentions. Find out how to screen or view the film here.