Someone Else's Shoes
Application of Social Justice
Rationale
Being in someone else's shoes, allows us to imagine how we would feel and how we might act if we were them.
Investigation Into
- The organisations and aids that support people with disabilities.
- What it is like to live with a disability.
- Criteria for good rules and laws.
Essential Questions
- How can we respect those who are different to us?
- What is it like to live with a disability?
- How can we make rules and laws that are fair for everyone?
- What can I learn from people who live with a disability?
Future Action
Your students will use an understanding of social justice to advocate for people in their community who live with a disability. They will appreciate the flexible thinking and courage shown by those with a disability and use them as inspiration to achieve their own goals. Your students will perceive rules and laws as a mechanism for fairness in our community.
Pretesting and Familiarisation
The Concept of Social Justice
Your students will be immersed into the concept of Social Justice as they watch videos about people who have disabilities.
Your students will be immersed into the concept of Social Justice as they watch videos about people who have disabilities.
Immersion
Your students will be immersed into life with a disability as they reflect on video about a boy with cerebral palsy.
Your students will be immersed into life with a disability as they reflect on video about a boy with cerebral palsy.
Pretest
Your students will record what they know about how we can ensure that everyone is treated fairly and without prejudice.
Your students will record what they know about how we can ensure that everyone is treated fairly and without prejudice.
Introducing the Unit
Your students will learn what they are going to do during this learning sequence.
Your students will learn what they are going to do during this learning sequence.
Someone Else's Shoes Glossary
Your students will learn words they will use during this learning sequence.
Your students will learn words they will use during this learning sequence.
Habit of Mind: Thinking Flexibly
Your students will learn about the Habit of Mind 'Thinking Flexibly'.
Your students will learn about the Habit of Mind 'Thinking Flexibly'.
Habit of Mind: Listening with Understanding and Empathy
Your students will learn about the Habit of Mind 'Listening with Understanding and Empathy'.
Your students will learn about the Habit of Mind 'Listening with Understanding and Empathy'.
Learning Opportunities
Blindfolded Experience
Your students will experience what it is like to be blindfolded as they try to complete a simple activity.
Your students will experience what it is like to be blindfolded as they try to complete a simple activity.
Introduction to Auslan
Your students will learn how to introduce themselves using Auslan.
Your students will learn how to introduce themselves using Auslan.
Fairness Inspectors
Your students will learn about the importance of accessibility as they assess how wheelchair friendly their school is.
Your students will learn about the importance of accessibility as they assess how wheelchair friendly their school is.
Writing a Cinquain Poem
Your students will write a cinquain poem about physical, visual or hearing impairment.
Your students will write a cinquain poem about physical, visual or hearing impairment.
Developing Questions For Our Guest Speaker
Your students will generate questions for a guest speaker who will explain how they support people with a disability.
Your students will generate questions for a guest speaker who will explain how they support people with a disability.
Listening To Our Guest Speaker
Your students will hear from a guest speaker who will explain how they support people with a disability in the local community.
Your students will hear from a guest speaker who will explain how they support people with a disability in the local community.
Fair Rules and Laws
Your students will consider the difference between a rule and a law and develop criteria for making good rules and laws.
Your students will consider the difference between a rule and a law and develop criteria for making good rules and laws.
Developing Laws
Your students will work in a group to develop new laws to ensure that everyone is treated fairly.
Your students will work in a group to develop new laws to ensure that everyone is treated fairly.
Researching a Disability
Your students will research a disability.
Your students will research a disability.
Sharing Research
Your students will share their research into a disability with other students in their class.
Your students will share their research into a disability with other students in their class.
Planning and Drafting My Story
Your students will write a story about someone with a disability achieving a goal.
Your students will write a story about someone with a disability achieving a goal.
Writing My Story
Your students will share the plan and first draft with a partner before writing the final copy of their story.
Your students will share the plan and first draft with a partner before writing the final copy of their story.
Demonstration of Understanding
Sharing My Story
Your students will share their creative story with other students in their class.
Your students will share their creative story with other students in their class.
Creating Social Justice Art
Your students will use their non-dominant hand to draw or paint a picture depicting the concept of social justice.
Your students will use their non-dominant hand to draw or paint a picture depicting the concept of social justice.
Future Action and Independent Inquiry
Future Action
Your students will make a pledge about how they will act when they meet people who are different from them.
Your students will make a pledge about how they will act when they meet people who are different from them.
Planning an Independent Inquiry
Your students will plan an inquiry into an aspect of this unit that they would like to learn more about.
Your students will plan an inquiry into an aspect of this unit that they would like to learn more about.
Conducting an Independent Inquiry
Your students will practise the skills of questioning, research and working independently as they conduct an inquiry into a topic that they have learnt about during this unit.
Your students will practise the skills of questioning, research and working independently as they conduct an inquiry into a topic that they have learnt about during this unit.