Lesson plans and activities: Middle Childhood
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Lesson plans
KLA-based lesson plans with a values focus (approximately 50 minutes in length) for primary (Middle Childhood) students are available for downloading as PDF files below. Each lesson includes teaching and learning strategies with getting started, discovering and bringing it together activities.
Middle Childhood
Students will consider water sources and usage in their school. They will explore water usage and wastage. Reflecting on their findings, students will identify recommendations and alternatives to current practice. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Students will access the ‘Clean up Australia’ website to gain an understanding of the major sources of litter. With this knowledge, students will investigate the cleanliness of one or two areas of their school and graph their findings. Recommendations about school littering practices can be made. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Students will identify and recognise attributes that we as a society see as desirable in individuals, such as honesty and integrity. To demonstrate that dishonesty carries consequences, students will use their findings to develop a set of ‘integrity questions’ as the basis for a game of snakes and ladders. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Middle childhood (8–11 years) |
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Australia is populated by a diverse range of people with varied backgrounds and understandings. In order for people to get along in a multicultural society, they may share values including a belief in equality, freedom and respect for one another. Understanding, tolerance and inclusion are also important. Students will explore some of these values through examining and thinking about examples of inclusion, exclusion and segregation in their own lives and in the broader community. Students will play a game and view a film clip on racial segregation in Australia in the 1950s. Students will research the Australian Freedom Rides and reflect on changing attitudes. Students will consider values they admire in another Australian and how they could enact these in their own life. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Middle childhood (8–11 years) |
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Students investigate and identify ‘best and fairest’ guidelines in sport, use the guidelines in a game of sport and reflect on the experience.
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