The Game of Life
Changes In Identity
Rationale
By understanding who I am, and how I have changed, I am better able to navigate challenging situations.
Investigation Into
- Managing challenging situations.
- Cultural and personal identities.
- Health messages in the media.
Essential Questions
- What are some strategies to manage challenging situations?
- How do I ask questions about different cultural and personal identities?
- How do I know which health messages in the media to trust?
Future Action
Your students will use strategies to manage changes in their identity. They will consider when they should trust health messages in the media. Your students will participate in regular exercise as they lead an active life. Your students will say no when someone is pressuring them to do something they don't want to do. They will understand that their identity is unique and is formed by many things including their family and their culture and they will respect other people's identities.
Pretesting and Familiarisation
The Concept of Identity
Your students will consider what 'identity' means as they complete 'identity' equations.
Your students will consider what 'identity' means as they complete 'identity' equations.
Pretest
Your students will complete a pretest to determine what they know about personal identities, managing challenging situations, and messages in the media.
Your students will complete a pretest to determine what they know about personal identities, managing challenging situations, and messages in the media.
Immersion
Your students will create an acrostic poem describing their identity.
Your students will create an acrostic poem describing their identity.
Introducing the Unit
Your students will learn what they will be doing during this learning sequence.
Your students will learn what they will be doing during this learning sequence.
Glossary of Identity
Your students will write the definition of words that they already know from the glossary of this unit.
Your students will write the definition of words that they already know from the glossary of this unit.
Habit of Mind: Taking Responsible Risks
Your students will consider how they will expand their 'comfort zone' by taking responsible risks.
Your students will consider how they will expand their 'comfort zone' by taking responsible risks.
Habit of Mind: Metacognition: Monitoring Your Thinking
Your students will consider their thoughts, feelings, and principles as they work out what they would do when faced with an ethical dilemma.
Your students will consider their thoughts, feelings, and principles as they work out what they would do when faced with an ethical dilemma.
Learning Opportunities
Staying Active: A Daily Health Hustle
Your students will move around the school oval each day and reflect on the impact that exercise has on their well-being.
Your students will move around the school oval each day and reflect on the impact that exercise has on their well-being.
Producing a Healthy Meal
Your students are going draw a healthy meal and consider how to prepare a healthy meal.
Your students are going draw a healthy meal and consider how to prepare a healthy meal.
Trusting Health Messages
Your students will rank how much they trust health messages in the media.
Your students will rank how much they trust health messages in the media.
Healthy Sports and Hobbies
Your students will consider how sports and hobbies can help us to stay healthy.
Your students will consider how sports and hobbies can help us to stay healthy.
My Game of Life: Sports and Hobbies
Your students will develop a card depicting their favourite sport or hobby for their Game Of Life.
Your students will develop a card depicting their favourite sport or hobby for their Game Of Life.
Ways to Say No
Your students will learn different ways say no when someone is pressuring them to do something they don't want to do.
Your students will learn different ways say no when someone is pressuring them to do something they don't want to do.
Ethics: In a World
Your students will consider what it would be like to live in a world without principles.
Your students will consider what it would be like to live in a world without principles.
My Game Of Life: Principle
Your students will develop a card depicting an important principle that they live by for their Game Of Life.
Your students will develop a card depicting an important principle that they live by for their Game Of Life.
Cultures and Customs
Your students will compare the celebrations of different cultures and research their family's customs.
Your students will compare the celebrations of different cultures and research their family's customs.
My Game of Life: Custom
Your students will develop a card depicting one of their family's customs for their Game Of Life.
Your students will develop a card depicting one of their family's customs for their Game Of Life.
The Habits of Role Models
Your students will think of role models that practise the Habits Of Mind.
Your students will think of role models that practise the Habits Of Mind.
My Game of Life: Role Model
Your students will develop a role model card for their Game Of Life.
Your students will develop a role model card for their Game Of Life.
Demonstration of Understanding
Changes to My Identity
Your students will consider how changes to their identity can result in new challenging situations.
Your students will consider how changes to their identity can result in new challenging situations.
Playing My Game of Life
Your students will play 'The Game Of Life'.
Your students will play 'The Game Of Life'.
Future Action and Independent Inquiry
Future Action
Your students will consider what they have learnt during this learning sequence and how they will use what they have learnt in the future.
Your students will consider what they have learnt during this learning sequence and how they will use what they have learnt in the future.
Planning an Independent Inquiry
Your students will plan an inquiry into an aspect of this learning sequence that they would like to learn more about.
Your students will plan an inquiry into an aspect of this learning sequence that they would like to learn more about.
Conducting an Independent Inquiry
Your students will practise the skills of questioning, research and working independently as they conduct an inquiry into a topic that they have learnt about during this unit.
Your students will practise the skills of questioning, research and working independently as they conduct an inquiry into a topic that they have learnt about during this unit.