Lesson summary
Explore the National Women’s Football team as role models, and how role models in general influence our self-identities. Students discuss which attributes are displayed by positive role models and identify those attributes that don’t belong to good role models.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- examine how respect and empathy contribute to positive relationships and health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Success criteria:
Students can...
- discuss respect and empathy, how their behaviour impacts others, and how the behaviour of others impacts them
- explain the concept of fairness and how creating a fair situation benefits everyone involved.
Lesson guides and printables
Curriculum links
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Lesson details
Curriculum mapping
Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:
Health and Physical Education
Students learn to:
- explain how identities can be influenced by people and places, and how we can create positive self-identities (AC9HP6Pp01).
- describe and demonstrate how respect and empathy can be expressed to positively influence relationships (AC9HP6P04).
General capabilities: Personal and Social Capability
Syllabus outcomes: PD3-3
Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability
Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards:
Students explain how different factors influence identities. They identify strategies to enhance their own and others’ health, safety relationships and wellbeing.
Resources required
- brainstorming tools (e.g., whiteboard, smartboard, butcher’s paper, or digital app such as Miro)
- device to show digital videos to the class.
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- ethical understanding
- empathy
- reflection
- social skills
Additional info
Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion, select resources from the list that most suit your students.
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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