Building respect in relationships

This lesson focuses on inclusion and students building respectful relationships. In this activity, students explore ways to celebrate diversity and identify the interpersonal skills that help in forming respectful relationships.

Year level

9-10

Duration

60 minutes

Type

In class activity

SEL Competencies

Social awareness

Relationship skills

Responsible decision-making

Learning intention

Students explore what constitutes respectful relationships, what influences inclusivity and equality in relationships, and how to seek help if something isn’t right.

Key outcomes

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

analyse factors and strategies that enhance inclusivity, equality and respectful relationships
articulate interpersonal skills to build and maintain respectful and inclusive relationships
evaluate factors that shape identities, and analyse how individuals impact the identities of others
articulate support available to themselves and others.

Materials needed

Coloured pens/pencils/textas
6 pieces of butchers paper
One piece of A4 paper per student (or student workbook/laptop/computer or mobile device)

Mapped to

Australian Curriculum Health and Physical Education

Analyse factors that shape identities and evaluate how individuals influence the identities of others (AC9HP10P01)
Refine, evaluate and adapt strategies for managing changes and transitions (AC9HP10P02)
Evaluate the influence of respect, empathy, power and coercion on establishing and maintaining respectful relationships (AC9HP10P04)

Australian Curriculum: General Capabilities

Personal and Social Capability:
- Social awareness
- Appreciate diverse perspectives
- Understand relationships
Critical and Creative Thinking
- Reflecting

NSW PDHPE Syllabus

Analyse factors and strategies that enhance inclusivity, equality and respectful relationships (PD5-3)
Critique their ability to enact interpersonal skills to build and maintain respectful and inclusive relationships in a variety of groups or contexts (PD5-10)

Victorian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education

Evaluate factors that shape identities, and analyse how individuals impact the identities of others (VCHPEP142)
Investigate how empathy and ethical decision making contribute to respectful relationships (VCHPEP146)

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Activity 1

Think/Pair/Share

5 minutes

Individually students write their own definitions for inclusivity, equality and respect.
Students share their definitions with a partner, re-write using both ideas.
Pairs share their definitions to develop class definition.

Activity 2

Graffiti walk: influences on inclusivity, equality and respect

25 minutes

Create six graffiti sheets (six pieces of butchers paper/A3-sized paper placed around the room), each with one of the following topics written at the top of the page:
- Family
- Gender
- Sexuality
- Peers
- Religion
- Australian Law.
Students work in small groups.
Allocate two minutes for each group to work with each graffiti sheet. After one minute, groups move on to the next sheet.
Once each group has completed all six graffiti sheets, they choose and highlight three pieces of information recorded on the last graffiti sheet they wrote as a group and present this information to the class.

Activity 3

Circle chat: Respectful relationships

30 minutes

Move students to a large free space.
Position students in two circles, the inside circle facing out and the outside circle facing in so that everyone has a partner.
Teacher reads out the questions, and each pair of students has one minute to discuss their responses.
The outside circle moves one space to the left and the next question is read out and answered. Repeat until all the questions are answered.