Lesson summary
This lesson explores potential avenues of support for young people within their personal, local and online communities. Students will explore the barriers and enablers to seeking help, and reflect using a simple three-step formula that can be used when asking for help. Students will undertake a group research task, to learn more about the services that are available to support the health and wellbeing of young Australians and make comparisons to other support services.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- identify and analyse credible and reliable sources of health information
- communicate health information with others
- develop skills and confidence in asking for help
Success criteria:
Students can...
- locate credible and reliable health information, and explain the importance of using them.
- identify support people and services that they and others can use when needed
- locate and analyse community health services that work to support vulnerable youths
- communicate health information with others
- use a simple formula to ask for help
Lesson guides and printables
Lesson details
Curriculum mapping
Australian curriculum content descriptions:
Health and Physical Education Year 9 and 10:
- Critically analyse and apply health information from a range of sources to health decisions and situations (ACPPS095)
Syllabus outcomes: PDHPE5.6, PDHPE5.7, PDHPE5.8
General capabilities: Literacy, Ethical Understanding, Personal and social capability
Unit of work: Life After The Oasis – HPE
Time required: 100 mins
Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion and guide student research
Resources required
- Student Worksheets – one copy per student
- A device capable of presenting a video to the class
- Handling Sensitive Topics And Controversial Issues Factsheet – teacher copy (optional)
- Evaluating Websites Factsheet – one copy per student (optional)
- Butcher’s paper and markers
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Community engagement
- Digital literacy
- Empathy
- Initiative
- Problem solving
Additional info
This resource has been adapted from ‘Teaching Social Issues Through English’ developed with the English Teachers Association NSW and the ‘Youth Homelessness Matters Resource’ developed by Janice Atkin. You can find these resources here.
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