Including Everyone - Show Your Strength

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Years 5 & 6 Health and Physical Education:

• Identify how valuing diversity positively influences the wellbeing of the community (ACPPS060)
• Participate positively in groups and teams by encouraging others and negotiating roles and responsibilities (ACPMP067)

Syllabus outcomes: COS3.1, IRS3.11, INS3.3. 

General capabilities: Literacy, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, Critical and Creative Thinking.

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: By the end of Year 6, students explain the influence of people and places on identities. They recognise the influence of emotions on behaviours and discuss factors that influence how people interact. They describe their own and others’ contributions to health, physical activity, safety and wellbeing. They examine how physical activity, celebrating diversity and connecting to the environment support community wellbeing and cultural understanding. Students demonstrate fair play and skills to work collaboratively.
 
This lesson is part of the wider unit of work Including Everyone

Time required: 80 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low – students focus on creating representations of themselves and making selections that allow them to show their strengths

• The Girl Who Thought in Pictures – The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin by Julia Finley Mosca, or a device capable of displaying a video to the class
• Show Strength Challenges sheet
• List Your Strengths sheet
• pencils and plain paper
• dry spaghetti (1/2 packet per participant)
• marshmallows (1/2 bag per participant, or alternative construction resources that you already have in the school)

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Creativity
• Empathy
• Ethical understanding
• Social skills

These lessons have been developed in partnership with Down Syndrome Australia.