Where Do I Stand on Charitable Giving?

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

• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• digital literacy
• empathy
• ethical understanding
• reflection
• social skills

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 10 English

• Evaluate the social, moral or ethical positions represented in literature (AC9E10LE04)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding, Literacy

NSW Syllabus Outcomes: EN5-URB-01

Relevant parts of Year 10 achievement standards: Students develop and justify their own interpretations of texts. They explain different viewpoints, attitudes and perspectives through the development of cohesive and logical arguments. Students create a wide range of texts to articulate complex ideas. They make presentations and contribute actively to class and group discussions, building on others' ideas, solving problems, justifying opinions and developing and expanding arguments.

UN SDG 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere 

• Target 1.a Ensure significant mobilisation of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions

• Copies of Chapters 2 + 3 of The Life You Can Save ebook 
• Device capable of projecting onto the board
• Sticky notes
• Student Worksheets for each student

This lesson has been developed with the support of The Life You Can Save. 

The Life You Can Save makes “smart giving simple” by curating a group of nonprofits that save or improve the most lives per dollar. They aim to create a world where everyone has an opportunity to build a better life and where there’s no suffering or death due to extreme poverty.

The Life You Can Save was founded by Melbourne-born Peter Singer, widely recognised as one of the world’s most influential contemporary philosophers, to advance the ideas in his 2009 book The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty (republished 2019).

Since then, they’ve worked to introduce the ideas from Professor Singer’s book to new audiences, inspiring people to help the world’s poor and empowering them to make the greatest impact possible.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - the teacher will have to organise students into groups and facilitate some class discussion. 

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