Feeling Excluded - Stories About Discrimination

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

• cultural understanding
• curiosity
• empathy
• ethical understanding
• intercultural understanding
• global citizenship
• social skills

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 3 and 4, Health and Physical Education 

Students learn to

• describe how choices and actions can be influenced by stereotypes (AC9HP4P03)

Relevant parts of Year 3 and 4 achievement standards: Students describe the influences that inclusion and stereotypes have on choices and actions.

Victorian curriculum (2.0)

Year 3 and 4, Health and Physical Education 

Students learn to 

• describe how valuing diversity influences wellbeing and identify actions that promote inclusion in their communities (VC2HP4P05)

Relevant parts of Year 3 and 4 achievement standards: Students describe the influences that inclusion and the challenging of stereotypes have on choices and actions.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student

• describes and applies skills and strategies to strengthen respectful relationships (PH2-RRS-01)

General capabilities: Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding, Personal and Social Capability 

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

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – Teachers will moderate student discussion and support student work.

UN SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Target 4.7: By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

• coloured strips of paper
• device for showing videos to students
• Inclusion and Exclusion Images
• Student Worksheet

Together for Humanity is an inclusive, not-for-profit educational organisation that works with school communities to combat prejudice and advance belonging and inclusion. We offer a range of student programs linked to the Australian Curriculum, Teacher Professional Learning and online learning for students and teachers. Our work contributes to a more socially cohesive Australian society that values and respects cultural and religious diversity.

Respectful Terminology: Engaging with First Nations peoples

Quick Summary: This course equips educators with the knowledge and confidence to use respectful terminology when engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories, and cultures.