Speaking Up

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

• creative thinking
• communication
• community engagement
• initiative
• problem solving

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 5, Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS)

• How citizens (members of communities) with shared beliefs and values work together to achieve a civic goal. (AC9HS5K07)
• Propose actions or responses to issues or challenges and use criteria to assess the possible effects. (AC9HS5S06)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability. 

NSW Curriculum:

• HT3-3 - Identifies change and continuity and describes the causes and effects of change on Australian society.
• HT3-4 - Describes and explains the struggles for rights and freedoms in Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 5 HASS achievement standards:

• Students explain how people achieve civic goals
• Students consider criteria in proposing actions or responses

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion and assist students to pick local issues.

UN SDG 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

• Target 10.2: By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.

• ‘Creating Change’ Planning Guide
• Device to watch the ‘Trailblazers’ film if needed 
• Resources for media creation such as an iPad, camera, devices, posters, etc. 
• Student devices for research - if needed for media creation

Trailblazers is a Savage Films, Milestone Films, and LM Films production by Director/Producers Maggie Miles and Maggie Eudes and Producer Lucy Maclaren.

Trailblazers tells the story of the fight for equality by Australia’s female footballers. It celebrates the rise of Australian women’s football from the early days of paying-to-play in front of small crowds to appearing in sold-out stadiums, watched by over 11 million people at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. 

The Cool.org resources and impact campaign are supported by major partner MECCA M-POWER and driven by Documentary Australia. The Trailblazers campaign aims to build momentum for further progress in gender equality and leadership and to increase investment and opportunities for women and girls to participate in sports.

If Trailblazers has inspired your students to take action, they can #Blaze a Trail for gender equality by take part in campaigns and sharing their commitment with the world. 

Visit www.trailblazersfilm.com.au 

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Create Change that Lasts

Quick summary: Make change last longer – in your classroom, service, school or organisation – with a range of strategies and tools that help gather and maintain momentum. You will learn the basics of behavioural science, shared by international experts, different strategies that support groups of people to maintain the momentum of change and how to use and teach with a tool that focuses on setting realistic goals.