Lesson summary
Explore the concepts of respect, empathy, and gender stereotypes through the lens of the national women’s football team. Students create definitions for respect and empathy and practice applying these concepts to a range of situations for the benefit of everyone.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- students examine gender stereotypes and their impacts on societal roles and responsibilities.
Success criteria:
Students can...
- discuss respect and empathy in relationships and how behaviours influence the well-being of individuals and communities
- describe strategies to challenge stereotypes and support their communities.
Lesson guides and printables
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Lesson details
Curriculum mapping
Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:
Health and Physical Education
Students learn to:
- investigate how the portrayal of societal roles and responsibilities can be influenced by gender stereotypes (AC9HP6P03).
- describe and demonstrate how respect and empathy can be expressed to positively influence relationships (AC9HP6P04).
- analyse how behaviours influence the health, safety, relationships and wellbeing of individuals and communities (AC9HP6P10).
General capabilities: Personal and Social Capability
Syllabus outcomes: PD3-3
Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability
Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 achievement standards:
Students propose strategies to demonstrate respect, empathy and inclusion. They explain how stereotypes influence roles and responsibilities. They analyse health information to refine strategies to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing.
Resources required
- device to show media to the class
- Is This Fair? slide deck
- Why did the Matildas Strike? factsheet
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- communication
- leadership
- ethical understanding
- empathy
- reflection
- social skills
Additional info
Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - Facilitate classroom discussions.
Celebrate the Matilda’s world cup campaign with this three-lesson unit exploring respect, empathy and gender equality in sport through the lens of Australia's national women's football team.
Cool Australia is not an official partner of the FIFA Women's World Cup™, Football Australia or the CommBank Matildas.
In these lessons, we have provided you with a range of examples to use with your students. Some of these examples might hit close to home for some students. That’s not always a bad thing, but you need to be aware of what might make your particular students feel vulnerable and what support they need. You don’t need to use all of the examples provided if it will be too tough a topic for right now! For more information on leading difficult discussions, take a look at our Handling Sensitive Topics Factsheet.
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