Activity Introduction
In this lesson, students will explore how to create change by starting with individual action. By exploring examples of change-making, students see that starting with themselves and an intention born of love can have a huge impact on those around them, and in turn inspire global change. Students will develop a personal action project and monitor the impact of their change wave.
Find all the IMAGI-NATION{TV} episodes on AIME’s YouTube channel.
Time required: 60 minutes
Learning intentions:
- Students understand how they can create change
- Students understand the importance of knowing what they can control and what they can influence
- Students understand the potential impact of individual action.
- Topics: Social Issues
- This lesson is part of a wider program: IMAGI-NATION{TV}
- Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – teachers will need to guide students through activities
- Syllabus outcomes: PDHPE5.3, PDHPE5.6, PDHPE5.7, PDHPE5.8, PDHPE5.11, PDHPE5.13, PDHPE5.16, HT5-1, HT5-3, HT5-4
- General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding
- Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability (optional)
- 21st century skills: Community Engagement, Critical Thinking, Global Citizenship, Initiative, Leadership, Problem Solving
Australian Curriculum Mapping
Years 9 & 10 Health and Physical Education
- Evaluate situations and propose appropriate emotional responses and then reflect on possible outcomes of different responses (ACPPS094)
- Plan, implement and critique strategies to enhance health, safety and wellbeing of their communities (ACPPS096)
Year 10 History (optional)
- The growth and influence of the environment movement within Australia and overseas, and developments in ideas about the environment including the concept of ‘sustainability’ (ACDSEH126)
- Significant events and campaigns that contributed to popular awareness of environmental issues, such as the campaign to prevent the damming of Australia’s Gordon River, the nuclear accident at Chernobyl and the Jabiluka mine controversy in 1998 (ACDSEH127)
Year 10 Work Studies
- Complete an action project utilising entrepreneurial behaviours to address an identified challenge or opportunity (ACWSCL031)
- Circles of Influence and Control Slides
- Circles of Influence and Control Worksheet (optional)
- Device capable of presenting a video to the class
- Student Worksheets – one copy per student.
Background Information
AIME created IMAGI-NATION{TV} & the IMAGI-NATION{CLASSROOM} experience to put a mentor in the home every day during the tough times of COVID-19 and beyond. It’s a daily TV show broadcast live on the internet, and it’s a gift for teachers, parents and kids to help make sense of today and imagine tomorrow.
The pursuit is to elevate knowledge; every guest we bring on knows something and has wisdom to share. This show is not just about entertainment to pass the time. We want to remake the mould for the modern hero – from beauty to brains, from selfies to self-knowledge, from hashtags to hope. IMAGI-NATION{TV} is seeking to unlock the best in every single one of us; to inspire a generation of heroes in the form of mentors who fight for a fairer world.
 This lesson has been developed in partnership with AIME. AIME is an Imagination Factory that since 2005, has been creating pop-up Imagination Factories on university campuses around the world to unlock the internal narrative of marginalised kids, taking them from a world that tells them they can’t to a world that tells them they can. Kids who experience the Imagination Factory have gone on to achieve educational parity, rise up as entrepreneurs, and take on a whole new mindset that prepares them for success. |
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