This unit places focus on managing risks facing young people in relation to cybersafety in the digital world, gender stereotypes and mental health. You will analyse ways to cultivate resilience and demonstrate help-seeking strategies and behaviours to support themselves and others. Students will develop self-management and interpersonal skills related to interacting with others in ways that promote inclusivity, equality and respect.
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Changeable Detail Esteem Notice
Friend Irresponsible Leisure
Learning Intention: We will be able to suggest strategies to maximise safety in the digital world
Success Criteria:
Define terms associated with online safety
Identify risk factors related to social media
Suggest strategies to minimise harm in the digital world
Staying safe online can be challenging in the digital world in which we live. In order to protect ourselves, there are a range of hazards that we need to navigate.
Download and make a copy in your Unit 5 Folder, and complete the Google Doc 'Staying Safe Online', to enhance your knowledge of online safety. There are links in the document related to each topic or you can click on the linked images provided below.
Using the eSafety Comissioner link, watch one of the videos.
Use the interactive activity to help you reflect on the scenarios in the video. Click on I'm Ready to Reflect
As a class, discuss the impact of cyberbullying on the characters and how they could get help.
As a class, watch the video Tagged
Download, save a copy and complete the 3 Level Reading Guide - Tagged.
As a class, discuss the 3LRG responses and the issues raised about:
our digital reputation and;
the possible negative consequences of our poor decisions regarding online activities
The Australian Government eSafety Agency has asked you to construct a creative mobile App that supports teenagers in minimising or preventing harm when online.
Your teacher will share your Mobile App Google Slides Template through the Google Classroom.
During class, your teacher will provide instructions about inserting hyperlinks and setting up your Mobile App for teens. You will have to complete most of the task at home but use the information from our class learning activities to help you.
There are some buttons on the left that may help you with linking and set up, also.
Learning Intention: We will be able to create an online resource (Mobile App) that provides strategies to maximise online safety for teens
Success Criteria
Select two online safety issues to examine
Use a Google Slides template to create an online App
Investigate online help agencies related to supporting responsible use of technology for teens
Following your teacher’s instructions and the Task Linking Instructions Doc, you are to set up your task template:
Modelled Demonstration: your teacher will model how to set up your mobile App home page and linking to the issue slides
Teacher may show you an example to illustrate a basic finished App
It is important to keep the vertical slide set up.
In the notes section, on each slide of the template, the suggested contents are listed
Shared Practice: Together with your teacher, work through setting up your Homepage, inserting hyperlinks to slides and inserting icons/images
Guided Practice: You should continue inserting links while the teacher gives feedback and assistance
Independent Practice: continue inserting links and icons. Ask your teacher when/if you need more help
Download, make a copy and complete the Technology Support Agencies Worksheet to:
Support your task research
Find and write a definition for your two technology/online issues for teens
Research information about online help agencies related to your two technology/online issues for teens
You will be able to use this information for your Mobile App.
On your Task 3 Mobile App Template, Help Agencies slides, and using the activity completed above:
explain, in detail, how each agency or service can support teens in being safe online
provide a link to each agency/service
provide an exit link back to the issue slide
Your teacher will assist you and provide feedback. Don't be shy! Ask for help.
Learning Intention: We will be able to investigate risks of use and strategies for staying safe online.
Success Criteria:
Identify the current online risk factors to your privacy.
Discuss the risks of social media usage.
Propose methods for staying safe online.
Your teacher will set up the lesson for your class on Education Perfect and/or Google Classroom
As a class, work through the EP lesson - Social Media, Technology and Strategies for Staying Safe. You will learn about:
Data privacy and the online world
The risks of social media
Applying strategies for staying safe
As a class, discuss and provide feedback on the responses
Students complete the eSafety Commissioner - Be Secure Quiz
On your Task 3 Mobile App Template, for each online issue, create a slide/platform that provides eSafety information for teens that:
outlines, in detail, the online issue
explains the risks involved (what may happen to them)
includes a relevant Australian statistic that shows the importance of being safe online eg how many experience it, average time online, % teens online gaming, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and so on
includes a link to a slide that:
explains, in detail, two personal online safety strategies they might use to protect themselves
has an exit link to issue slide
Your teacher will provide feedback via Google Classroom. Don't be shy! Ask for help.
Adolescence is a period of great change for all young people and can entail a range of physical, social, emotional and academic challenges. It is a time when young people are establishing their identities, seeking greater independence, moving into adulthood and often facing pressures from both school and social environments. It is also the peak age of onset for many mental health disorders.
According to Beyond Blue (2019), half of all mental health conditions in adulthood emerge by age 14, and three quarters by 24.
That's why it's so important to talk about what's going on and seek support early. Just like physical conditions, mental health conditions can be managed. With the right support and treatment, a young person can get back to smashing their goals and enjoying life.
It’s normal at various times to feel sad, stressed, angry or anxious. But when these feelings last for longer than usual and start to affect your everyday life, it's important to find out what's going on and what you can do about it.
Learning Intention: We will be able analyse different mental health disorders
Success Criteria:
Define mental health
Identify different mental health disorders
Examine the signs and symptoms of mental health
View the video, Mental Health - The Basics, to gain an overview of mental health.
As a class, discuss the meaning of mental health
Your teacher will set up the lesson for your class on Education Perfect and/or Google Classroom
As a class, work through the Education Perfect lesson - Looking After Your Mental Health. You should develop understanding and skills related to:
Connections between mental health and wellbeing
Separating emotional health, mental health and mental illness
The physical aspects of mental illness and wellbeing
Breaking misconceptions and building mental health
As a class, discuss and provide feedback on the responses.
Your teacher might review the following instructions and the Task Linking Instructions Doc, to assist students setting up their hyperlinks
Modelled Demonstration: Your teacher might model the set up of the home page and linking to the issue slides
You may like to use the 8PDH Task 3 Mobile App Template - Example MCRA to see a basic finished App
It is important they keep the vertical slide set up.
In the notes section, on each slide of the template, the suggested contents are listed
Together with your teacher work through setting up your Homepage, inserting hyperlinks to slides and inserting icons/images
You may like to use the sample template to show what it might look like
Continue inserting links and icons, your teacher will assist if you need further support
Add information to your Mobile App Safety Strategies Slides
Complete eSafety issues platform/slides
Insert the hyperlinks as per task guidelines
Ensure slides have the correct exit links to issue slide and/or HomePage
Your teacher will provide feedback via Google Classroom. Don't be shy! Ask for help.
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
Learning Intention: We will be able analyse different mental health disorders
Success Criteria:
Identify different mental health disorders
Examine the signs and symptoms of mental health
Practise how to tell support people about mental health concerns or issues
Your teacher will set up the lesson for your class on Education Perfect and/or Google Classroom
As a class, work through the Education Perfect lesson - Communication Techniques for Seeking Help. You should develop understanding and skills related to:
Supporting a friend
Open and closed questions
Encouraging a friend to seek help
Planning to talk
Active listening
Things you can do in support of a friend
Things you can do, things you can’t
Supporting flow chart
Risk of harm
As a class, discuss and provide feedback on the responses
Working in groups of three, one member downloads and shares the Mental Health Jigsaw Table
In the shared document and using the links below, each student completes the Jigsaw Table by:
Recording a definition of mental health
Researching and answering the questions for one of the following mental health issues:
What is the disorder?
How does it affect people?
What are the signs and symptoms?
What causes it?
What to do if you experience it?
How can others support the mentally ill person?
A a class, discuss your findings
Using one of the disorders from the mental health jigsaw research, each group is to make a poster advertising a support group or network for people with that disorder
Using the Newman’s Prompts scaffold, complete the steps to solve the following problem:
According to the Headspace website, 74.8% of young people turn to the internet as their primary source of information in a time of crisis. Based on this information, determine how many of the 210 year 8 students at St John Paul II College would use the internet as their first strategy for seeking help?
Log into Kahoot.it, using the code supplied by the teacher
Complete the Better Choices for Me Kahoot
Learning Intention: We will be able to explain respectful relationships and expectations on our rights and responsibilities.
Success Criteria:
Describe what a stereotype is.
Explain how gender stereotypes affect relationships.
Describe some ways to challenge gender stereotypes.
Many people don’t know the difference between gender and sex. Sex is anatomical and biological - how our body is put together. Gender roles are expectations of how a person should act, dress, and talk based on our sex. The majority of people conform to those roles very early on, but sometimes the line blurs between femininity and masculinity. Who’s to say that just because you are male you have to act manly and if you are female you must be girly?
The teen years are a time when a person begins to discover his or her gender identity. A teen’s sex - meaning if they are male or female – is determined by genetics. On the other hand, his or her gender identity is determined by a combination of factors, including the gender roles he or she adopts and his or her sexual orientation.
Gender roles determine how “masculine” or “feminine” a teen seems. Teens are exposed to gender roles from birth through parents, the media, and society, but during the teen years, teens begin to question and choose various gender roles.
If you are still not sure what this all means go to the Reachout.com site and read about sex, gender and sexuality.
View the YouTube video - Interview with Kids on Gender Roles
Download, save a copy into your Unit 5/Better Choices folder and complete the Gender Roles Worksheet to
Write your own definition of gender stereotypes
Research and record a dictionary definition of gender stereotypes
Explore some gender role activities or stereotypes that exist
Your teacher will set up the lesson for your class on Education Perfect and/or Google Classroom
As a class, work through the Education Perfect lesson - Gender, Stereotypes and Relationships. You should develop understanding and skills related to:
Gender stereotypes and relationships
Impact on relationships
As a class, discuss and provide feedback on the responses
Download, save a copy and complete the Figuring Out Your Role - Student Version, by following the teacher’s version to:
Explore how gender roles develop during adolescence
Challenge gender stereotypes
Introduce respectful relationships and decisions about sexual activity
Learning Intention: We will be able to analyse the impact music video clips have on sexual behaviour
One of the most common themes of the media is the theme that an attractive appearance and sexy body are among the most important goals young people, especially women, can achieve. Music videos place a great deal of emphasis on women’s appearance and sexual appeal. Studies have found that compared to male artists, female artists were more sexually objectified, held to stricter appearance standards, and more likely to demonstrate sexual behaviour. Interestingly, more than 10% of 11- to 14-year-olds regularly watch music videos.
Download and make a copy, in your Unit 5 Google Shared Folder, of the Music Video Analysis - Student Version Google Slides presentation. Following the teacher’s version, complete the following activities.
Working in your Music Video Analysis slides presentation and as a class, brainstorm the features common to music videos, focusing on how women and men are portrayed (shown)
Working in your Music Video Analysis slides presentation, watch the Kid Rock - All Summer Long video clip and complete the related questions.
Working in your Music Video Analysis slides presentation, watch the Taylor Swift - Shake It Off video clip and complete the related questions.
Working in your Music Video Analysis slides presentation, view the Jason Evert - Dressing for Love video that gives a modern viewpoint on how teenage girls dress and the vibe teenage boys get from it.
Complete the related questions.
It is God's will that we value ourselves as unique.
It is important that we recognise and build relationships that are healthy and appropriate to our stage in life.
Remember, it is a fact that the majority of young people do not engage in sexual activity.
You should focus on the idea that:
“It’s your body and your choice – it’s ok to wait and it’s ok to say NO”.