RIC-20013 AC Health (Year 4) Communicating for health and wellbeing

,,. Diversity; the spice of life
Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing
The lesson
Introduction
• Show internet images of many species of
different plants and animals from different
biomes. Discuss the meaning of diversity and
how the differences among things enhance the
beauty of life.
• Is any one species 'better' than another?
Discuss the roles of different species in the
food webs of different ecosystems.
Development
• Not one of us is better than another. We are all
different-but with many similarities! Students
investigate this concept as they work in pairs to
complete the activity on page 47.
• Do the differences you discover create
problems between you or are they celebrated
for the diversity and interest they bring to the
class?
• Working with the same partners, students
identify and explore a difference between them.
Discuss the difference between 'accepting' and
'challenging' each other's ideas or points of
view.
• Students complete the activity on page 48.
Differentiation
The activities are all outcome based. When
completing them, students could be grouped
in mixed abilities and the activities discussed
before being completed.
Conclusion
• Students share the differences between
themselves and their partner.
Content description
Describe how respect, empathy and
valuing diversity can positively influence
relationships (ACPPS037) 0
Resources
• Sufficient copies of pages 47 and 48
• Internet images of different plant and animal
species
Assessment
• Does the student know there is not a single person
on the planet who is absolutely identical to another?
• Does the student know we have many differences
among us, including opinions about and
preferences for a wide range of things?
• Does the student know in our society, celebrating
and accepting differences creates harmony?
Going further
• If people are excluded because there is something
different about them, why is anyone ever accepted?
Who decides which differences are acceptable
and which are not? What do you think? Complete
the activity on page 49 to identify what is different
about you. Include physical, emotional, intellectual
differences.
• Using instructions from a website, make and use a
Newton's disc to illustrate how different things can
be a part of a whole (colours of the rainbow= white).
• Identify important differences among students;
e.g. religion and cultural traditions, preferred afterschool
clubs. Choose ways to illustrate how these
differences come together to create one class.
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