Exploring Gender Stereotypes in Sport

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

Health and Physical Education

Students learn to:

investigate how the portrayal of societal roles and responsibilities can be influenced by gender stereotypes (AC9HP6P03).
explain how identities can be influenced by people and places and how we can create positive self-identities (AC9HP6P01).
describe and demonstrate how respect and empathy can be expressed to positively influence relationships (AC9HP6P04).
analyse how behaviours influence the health, safety, relationships and well-being of individuals and communities (AC9HP6P10).

General capabilities: Personal and Social Capability

Syllabus outcomes: PD3-3

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 achievement standards:
Students explain how different factors influence identities. They propose strategies to demonstrate respect, empathy and inclusion. They explain how stereotypes influence roles and responsibilities.

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

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

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate classroom discussion.

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.

How to Teach Critical Thinking - Primary

Quick Summary: This course will help you to view the world with a more critical eye by introspectively exploring your own biases of thinking.