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

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Communicating and interacting for health and wellbeing
The lesson
Introduction
• Show pictures of famous people and ask who
likes or dislikes them, giving reasons why.
• Categorise reasons for liking/disliking a
celebrity under the following headings:
- 'How the person interacts with others'
- 'How the person performs in his/her career'
- 'What the person looks like'
Discuss the difference.
Development
• What does your body allow you to do? What
does your appearance allow you to do? Do
either of them (body or appearance) make you
who you are?
• When can you say you know or like a person?
Is it as soon as you meet them (and see what
they look like) or is it after you've spent time in
their company to find out how they interact with
others and the environment?
• Students complete the activities on page 43.
• Discuss how illogical it is to like someone
because of how they look.
• Complete the activity on page 44. How would
you like being told who you could and could
not be friends with based on how they looked?
What would be your objections?
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 their ideas about disregarding
appearances and valuing people for who they
are; not what they look like.
Content description
Describe how respect, empathy and
valuing diversity can positively innuence
relationships (ACPPS037) 0
Resources
• Sufficient copies of pages 43 and 44
• Internet images of famous people
Assessment
• Does the student know how people look is down to
luck (genetics)?
• Does the student know how we interact with others
and the environment is a mixture of luck (genetics)
and environmental factors?
• Does the student know how we treat others
can affect how they interact with others and the
environment?
Going further
• With a partner, read and discuss Jordan's story on
page 45. What does it tell you about being different
and what different people have to offer?
• Create a booklet of people you know. Describe what
they are like as people. Do not mention what they
look like or what their bodies can do.
• On separate pieces of paper, write reasons why
people may be excluded based on how they look.
Sit the class in one circle all facing inwards with a
waste paper bin in the middle. Students take turns
to read one reason for exclusion then they crumple
the paper and throw it in the bin.
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