Teaching Youth Social Action (Inclusion & Diversity KS 3&4)
An overview of how Inclusion and Diversity can be taught through 5 lessons.
On this resource page, you will find the following lessons and guide: Overview of Teaching Lesson 1: Understand the meaning of Inclusion and Diversity Lesson 2: Focusing on discrimination and prejudice and how we are all treated differently Lesson 3 - 5: Understanding Diversity
On this resource page, you will find the following lessons and guide: Teaching Youth Social Action Guide Lesson 1: How is our planet's geography diverse? Lesson 2: What makes people unique? Lesson 3: How can we celebrate our diversity? Lesson 4: How can sporting events connect us together? Lesson 5: How can inclusion promote diversity? Lesson 6: How can we be inclusive towards others?
On this resource page, you will find the following lessons and guide: Teaching Youth Social Action Guide Lesson 1: What diversity is found in us? Lesson 2: What diversity can we see outside? Lesson 3: How can we celebrate diversity?
Schools have a responsibility to tackle poverty and promote equality of opportunities. Teaching young people about poverty can empower them to understand the subject and its impact, motivating them to act within a school, community, or city. Using the National Curriculum, we have linked as many opportunities as possible to deliver poverty through a range of different subject areas. These opportunities can be used to either deliver the topic as a stand-alone or through cross-curricular planning with a number of different subject areas, depending on the focus of the school.
On this resource page, you will find the following lessons and guide: Lesson 1: Understand the meaning of Poverty Lesson 2: Understanding the impact of Poverty Lessons 3 and 4: Debate: Ending poverty everywhere Lesson 5: Why does poverty exist? Lesson 6: Why is Marcus Rashford a role model? Lesson 7: Evaluate the letter written by Marcus Rashford
On this resource page, you will find the following lessons and guide: Overview of Lessons Lesson 1: What is poverty? Lesson 2: What are the different forms of poverty? Lesson 3: How does poverty affect young people in school? Lesson 4: How can you tackle poverty at your school?
Guidance on how to plan Youth Social Action projects using the steps process 1- Teacher Resource: Teaching HH: - The resources below support the teaching of the skills needed so pupils can carry out their social action projects on health: 2- Lesson 1: What is a healthy system? (PowerPoint and PDF) - To understand how health systems function and define what health is. 3- Lesson 2: When is food giving me energy? (PowerPoint and PDF) - To explain the role of physical activity and nutrition in physical and emotional health. - To create a charter on health. 4- Lesson 3: Lesson 3: How can I take action about my health? (PowerPoint and PDF) - To plan the skeleton of a social action project that could improve health in my school/local area/somewhere in the world. 5- Lesson 4: Lesson 4: Taking action (PowerPoint and PDF)
This section focuses on delivering healthy habits. The following resources/lesson plans are available for download. Each lesson plan comprises a PDF document and a PowerPoint presentation. - Overview of Lessons: Teaching Healthy Habits - Guide: Teaching Healthy Habits through Other Activities - Lesson 1: Who influences our food choices? - Lesson 2: How can we make healthy food choices? - Lesson 3: Understand the consequences of imbalances in the diet, including obesity, starvation and deficiency diseases - Lesson 4: How can we tackle malnutrition?
Refers to activities that young people do to make a positive difference to others while developing key skills and attributes and having fun. YSA can take place in various contexts (i.e. at home, schools, youth clubs etc) and can include volunteering, fundraising, campaigning or supporting peers. We believe social action can play an essential role: in young lives, the success of a school, the local community or more.
Our Resource Hub aims to act as a Youth Social Action search engine, offering tailored results to inspire and guide. The hub hosts a wide variety of resources, including our own Youth Social Action Toolkit, case studies, research reports, and helpful resources from other reputable organisations in the sector.
Our Resource Hub aims to act as a Youth Social Action search engine, offering tailored results to inspire and guide. The hub hosts a wide variety of resources, including our own Youth Social Action Toolkit, case studies, research reports, and helpful resources from other reputable organisations in the sector.
To find appropriate resources, use the filter feature to select the relevant options. You can filter by key stage (1-5), YSA theme (e.g. poverty), or a particular skill (e.g. communication). You can also filter by resource owner (Ormiston Trust or external organisation) and resource type, such as lesson plans. If you know what you are looking for, you can use the search bar.
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Our Youth Social Action Toolkit has been carefully developed by industry professionals with input from young people to guide school leaders, support staff, and young people through a Youth Social Action project. Our curriculum guides clearly outline how YSA can be integrated into the curriculum of schools with limited time.
We don’t gatekeep – by sharing our sector knowledge and resources, we aim to enrich the lives of all young people by fostering skills development, improving agency and wellbeing, and promoting active citizenship.
The first step of the YSA process is to be inspired by an issue you care about! Check out our inspirational case studies on what you could do!
The second step of the YSA process is to explore your options! You‘ll need to research the issue that inspired you to take action to understand how you can help.
Ready to start planning your project? Access our Youth Social Action Toolkit here.
The third step of the YSA process is to plan your project! Lucky for you, we have a Project Planning Template for that.
The fourth step of the YSA process is to carry out your plan! This is when the physical activities involved like fundraising, campaigning, and volunteering kick off.
The fifth and final step of the YSA process is to reflect! Looking back at your plan, did you achieve your aims? What went well and what didn’t go so well? Can you sustain your project? Or did you take steps to ensure further projects aren’t needed?