Taking Pride in Your Pride

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

• communication
• empathy
• social skills
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 5 & 6, Health and Physical Education

• Students learn to explain how identities can be influenced by people and places, and how we can create positive self-identities (AC9HP6P01)

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 achievement standards: Students explain how different factors influence identities.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

A student

• examines and explains factors that influence identity, health and wellbeing of individuals and groups (PH3-IHW-01)

General capabilities: Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussions and oversee students in independent tasks.

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

• device capable of sharing a video with the class
• Taking Pride in Your Pride Worksheet (1 per student)
• writing materials

Since Disney released The Lion King, in 1994 and the world fell in love with its story of adventure, friendship, and family on the savanna, Africa has lost half of its lions.

In 2019, Disney released the groundbreaking live-action adaptation of The Lion King and teamed up with the Wildlife Conservation Network’s Lion Recovery Fund and its partners to help bring back lions in the wild. Through this collaboration, Disney and the Wildlife Conservation Network’s Lion Recovery Fund encouraged audiences to “Protect the Pride,” urging fans and wildlife lovers around the world to participate in the conservation of lions and their habitats and help support local people who live alongside lions.

Now, five years later, with the release of Mufasa: The Lion King in theatres on December 19, Disney and the Lion Recovery Fund are teaming up again to continue efforts to Protect the Pride, celebrate successes to date, and grow hope for a future where lions and people thrive.

Find out more about how you can Protect the Pride here (disney.com.au/mufasa-the-lion-king-protect-the-pride).

Cool.org would like to extend our thanks to the Lion Recovery Fund and the Zambian Carnivore Programme (zambiacarnivores.org/programme) for their contribution of data, imagery and stories from the field to bring these resources to life. The Zambian Carnivore Programme (ZCP) is a Zambian-registered non-profit organisation dedicated to conserving large carnivores and the ecosystems they reside in through a combination of conservation science, conservation actions, and a comprehensive education and capacity-building effort. We would particularly like to thank PhD candidates Anna Kusler and Johnathan Reyes de Merkle and wish them the best of luck with their continued research.

Building a Positive Classroom Culture With Our Students

Quick summary: As teachers, we will work with groups of students who gel well together and feel easy to teach, and then we will have other groups who have difficulties getting along, which gets in the way of your teaching. In this course, we will explore strategies you can use to build a positive classroom culture with your students, no matter their age, year level, or the frequency in which you get to teach them.