Lesson summary
Students explore the importance of youth-led governance and decision-making. They will view clips from the feature documentary Future Council to understand the importance of advocating for sustainable solutions for the future. Students analyse case studies to assess measures of efficacy in youth-led governance initiatives and participate in a role-play activity.
Learning intentions
Students will:
- understand the role of youth in governance and decision-making
- explore how language can empower youth to influence social and environmental change.
Success criteria
Students can:
- explain how youth-led governance can shape societal decisions
- understand how language is used to advocate for change and express values.
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Lesson details
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- critical thinking
- collaboration
- communication
- leadership
- global citizenship
- problem solving
Curriculum Mapping
Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 9 & 10, English
Year 9:
Students learn to
- analyse how representations of people, places, events and concepts reflect contexts (AC9E9LY01)
Year 10:
Students learn to
- understand that language used to evaluate, implicitly or explicitly, reveals an individual’s values (AC9E10LA02)
Relevant parts of Year 9 & 10 achievement standards: Students analyse representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how texts respond to contexts. They analyse and evaluate representations of people, places, events and concepts, and how interpretations of these may be influenced by readers and viewers.
General capabilities: Ethical Understanding, Literacy, Numeracy, Personal and Social Capability
Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability
Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - Facilitate class discussions and activities.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
UN SDG 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
- Target 16.7 Ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.
Resources Required
- Activity sheet - Youth-led governance case studies
- Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
- Student devices
- Student Worksheet
- Whiteboard
Additional Info
Future Council is a Regen Studios film co-produced with Tebbernekkel. Cool.org and Regen Studios would like to acknowledge the generous contributions of Shark Island Foundation, LEEAF, Alberts I The Tony Foundation, Documentary Australia and our philanthropic partners in the development of these teaching resources. These lessons have been created in partnership with Regen Studios & Regenerators.
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