Fast Fashion: Biases in Fast Fashion Articles

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

• collaboration
• social skills
• ethical understanding
• empathy
• communication
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 10: English

• Understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly reveals an individual's values AC9E10LA02
• Analyse and evaluate how language features are used to implicitly or explicitly represent values, beliefs and attitudes AC9E10LY03

Relevant parts of Year 10 achievement standards: Students analyse and evaluate representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how interpretations of these may be influenced by readers and viewers.

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

UN SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production 

• Target 12.8: By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.

• A device capable of projecting information. 
• Fast fashion articles (two per student)
• Paper and pens for students to record information
• Whiteboard
• Whiteboard Markers

This is a Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion.

Create a Culture for Change (Cool+)

Quick Summary: This course will help you to tackle the tricky changes we can make for a better world, and how to guide students through this process as well.