Lesson Plan 3 - Strand 3: Individual and community health (Stage 5)

Rationale lesson 3:
The aim of this learning task is to further develop students understanding and especially awareness around how to use different strategies to minimise harm in specific situations. Through using the poem “I went to a party mum” students are able to relate to this topic on a more personal level and are more engaged in the content. The article allows students to apply their knowledge and understanding to this situation because it relates to their own lives. The questions again are developed to generate conversation and discussion among students to further develop their understanding and awareness around harm minimisation and at party’s in particularly.

Outcomes
A student identifies the consequences of risk behaviours and describes strategies to minimise harm.

Students learn about
Strategies to minimise harm:
-acquiring knowledge
-safe attitudes
-developing personal skills
-safe and supportive environments
-recognising, assessing and responding to risk situations

Students learn to:
Describe strategies to minimise harm in the following real life situations:
-at a party

Learning experiences:
Poem analysis - I went to a party mum;
Students each read the whole poem and than firstly split into small groups and discuss the situation and clarify what has happen.

The students will than each write down one strategy that they think may have prevented this from happening.

The groups will than split with another and discuss their strategies and which would be most effective and why. A class discussion will summarise understandings with the following questions.

Higher order thinking Questions:
1. What factors influenced the first girl not to drink, and what factors may have influenced the other boy to drink and drive?

2. Which strategies would be most effective in tyring to prevent this accident from occurring and why?

3. What are the positive and negative consequences from this behaviour?

Resources
Butchers paper
Pens (group ides)

Stimulus:
Poem – I went to a party mum

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-went-to-a-party-mom/