Exploring How Values and Beliefs Shape Identity

Exploring How Values and Beliefs Shape Identity

Lesson 4 of 5 in this unit

  • Secondary
  • Year 7 - 8
  • Health and Physical Education
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Lesson summary

Students will explore the identities of famous Australians and analyse how their values and beliefs form part of their identities. Students will then reflect on their own values and beliefs and use these as a basis for developing their own identity profile.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • reflect on how the values and beliefs they hold form their identities through developing an identity profile.

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • list a number of values and beliefs 
  • explain how values and beliefs influence the development of identity
  • develop an identity profile based on their own beliefs and values.

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Skills

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

  • creative thinking
  • communication
  • digital literacy
  • reflection
  • social skills

Curriculum Mapping

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 7 & 8, HPE

  • Analyse and reflect on the influence of values and beliefs on the development of identities. (AC9HP8P01)

General capabilities: Literacy, Personal and Social Capability

NSW Curriculum:

  • PD4-3 - Investigates effective strategies to promote inclusivity, equality and respectful relationships.
  • PD4-10 - Applies and refines interpersonal skills to assist themselves and others to interact respectfully and promote inclusion in a variety of groups or contexts.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 7 & 8 achievement standards: Students analyse factors that influence identities.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – teachers will need to facilitate class discussion and support students in their research.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

UN SDG 10 Reduce inequality within and among countries

  • Target 10.2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.

Resources Required

  • Student device for research and poster creation
  • Student headphones for listening to short clips individually
  • Student worksheet (1 per student)

Additional Info

Trailblazers is a Savage Films, Milestone Films, and LM Films production by Director/Producers Maggie Miles and Maggie Eudes and Producer Lucy Maclaren.

Trailblazers tells the story of the fight for equality by Australia’s female footballers. It celebrates the rise of Australian women’s football from the early days of paying-to-play in front of small crowds to appearing in sold-out stadiums, watched by over 11 million people at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. 

The Cool.org resources and impact campaign are supported by major partner MECCA M-POWER and driven by Documentary Australia. The Trailblazers campaign aims to build momentum for further progress in gender equality and leadership and to increase investment and opportunities for women and girls to participate in sports.

If Trailblazers has inspired your students to take action, they can #Blaze a Trail for gender equality by take part in campaigns and sharing their commitment with the world. 

Visit www.trailblazersfilm.com.au 

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