Learning Area: Health

Topic: Relationships
Sub Topic: Respecting Peers
ACARA Learning Purposes: Practise skills to establish and manage relationships (ACPPS055); Plan
and practise strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing (ACPPS054)
Learning Outcomes: Students will continue to develop their understandings of how to respectfully
treat others and gain a greater understanding of how to resolve conflicts using positive strategies.
Year: 5
Duration: 3 Weeks
Number of Lessons: 6
Outline of Unit:
The Year 5 Curriculum provides a requirement that students are given the opportunity to develop
skills to manage and establish relationships. This unit of work gives students the opportunity to
authentically engage in the area of respectful citizens and broaden their knowledge of how to act
positively and with respect to avoid conflict. The Curriculum supports students to develop
knowledge, understanding and skills to create opportunities and take action to enhance their own
and others' health, wellbeing and safety participation. Students develop skills to manage their
emotions, understand the physical and social changes that are occurring for them and examine how
the nature of their relationships changes over time (Australian Health Curriculum, 2014).
The unit of work is designed for students to gradually become more independent throughout the 3
weeks. The lessons encompass the need for students to initially be directed to and guided through
the expected outcomes and then be given the opportunity to self-direct and achieve through peer
support and individual motivation.
The learning in this unit circles around students seeking research from wider community members
and recording their responses to a series of questions that students create themselves. This will then
give students the opportunity to create and edit a video that can then be published to educate lower
grades in the school.
Students will be introduced to the topic and gradually work their way to creating the proposed
movie in groups of 4. The introduction will see students being exposed to a variety of sources that
detail individual approaches to being a respectful community member.

Key Inquiry Questions:
Questions that students should be able to answer following the unit of work are below.
What does being a respectful citizen mean to you?
How can you show people you are being respectful?
How can positively influence peoples opinion of you or a situation?

Throughout the unit students will learn and develop an understanding of the following:
Respectful Relationships
Respectful use of Language
Respectful Conflict Resolution
Respectful Community Members
Assessable Tasks: The assessable task in this unit of work is the video presentation they create. A
rubric of what is expected is included below (Please note the Rubric is created for the marking to be
done as a group project)
Does not Meet
Students was unable
to display adequate
understanding of topic
for their year level.
Meets
Students achieves
appropriate year level
understanding of the
topic.
Exceeds
Students achieves
above the appropriate
year level of
understanding
towards the topic.
Students created
relevant and
authentic interview
questions.

Students interviewed
at least 5 community
members that were
able to give differing
perspectives of a
respectful community
member.

Students included
video recordings of
themselves explaining
how to overcome
problems in the
school yard, at home
or in the community
in a respectful
manner.

Students displayed a
developing
understanding of
respectful
relationships in their
presentation.

Students created and
presented an
engaging video
presentation that was
edited and published.

Total Mark:
Overall Comment:







ICT Tools Used:
Smartboard
Student laptops
Websites
iMovie
YouTube
Student Weebly