The Oasis - Building Empathy and Understanding

The Oasis - Building Empathy and Understanding

Lesson 7 of 13 in this unit

  • Secondary
  • Year 9 - 10
  • Health and Physical Education
  • Physical Education
  • Social
  • Equality
  • Homelessness
  • Human Rights
  • Social Action
  • ...

Lesson summary

Students watch Part 8 of THE OASIS and identify the social and emotional challenges that young people experiencing homelessness face. Students empathise with a character’s experience of homelessness by assuming his or her persona, creating a Facebook profile and feed based on the perspective of their chosen character. Students complete a series of questions reflecting on the emotional toll that being homeless takes.

Key ideas to explore:

  • Homelessness can impact on an individual’s health and well being.
  • Students examine a more realistic view of homelessness.
  • There are ways to effectively address and challenge negative stereotypes about youth homelessness.

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Australian curriculum content descriptions:

  • Evaluate situations and propose appropriate emotional responses and then reflect on possible outcomes of different responses (ACPPS094)
  • Evaluate factors that shape identities and critically analyse how individuals impact the identities of others (ACPPS089)

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

Syllabus Outcomes: PDHPE5.1, PDHPE5.3, PDHPE5.11, PDHPE5.13, PDHPE5.16.

Unit of work: THE OASIS – HPE

Time required: 60 minutes

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate discussion.

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Additional info

This resource has been adapted from ‘Teaching Social Issues Through English’ developed with English Teachers Association NSW and the â€˜Youth Homelessness Matters Resource’ developed by Janice Atkin. You can find these resources here.

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