Risk Taking

Strand 3: Individual and Community Health

Outcome - 5.6: Students analyse attitudes, behaviours and consequences related to health issues affecting young people.


SLA - 5.7: Influences on health decision-making and risk behaviours

> Individual factors, eg values and beliefs
> sociocultural factors eg family, peers, gender and culture

SLT - 5.7: Recognise that health decisions and risk behaviours are not simply an individual responsibility but are shaped by a range of influences

> anaylse the range of influences that impact on an individuals ability to behave in healthy and safe ways in relation to personal safety and physical activity

Skill - 5.12: Decision Making

Task 1: You Tube train surfing expose by Chanel 10

Follow link to video and play to class. At conclusion of video the class is to be divided into two groups that will debate this topic. Group 1 will identify all negative aspects of rosk taking and group 2 will identify the positive aspects of rosk taking. Allow groups 10 minutes to formulate their arguments and then proceed to class debate. As a additional engagement activity the teacher is to select students to perform the role of moderator. Interchange this role as the debate progresses.

During the debate teacher is to write students identified points on white board as a visual aid for students.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN-bixbaeB8


Task 2: You Tube - Snake Charming:

Follow link to video and play to students. The focus of this task is to demonstrate to students the relevance that sociocultural issues have on risk taking.

Time Line Continum: At the conclusion of the video have all students stand at the front of the class. Explain to students that to their right is fully agree, the middle is utral ground and to their left is disagree. Ask the following questions.

1. Would snake charming be considered risky in Australia?

As the class moves into position ask questions of individual students such as.
>Why do you think that?
>Is this because you weren't brought up snake charming?

Balance your questions between groups of students that have chosen different responses

2. Is snake charming considered risky in India?

Why is not considered risky?
What is the difference between Australia and India?


3. Does the society in which a person lives provide you with what is risky or not?

Do values and beliefs shape what is acceptable or not?
Does the society in which we live make unwritten rules of behaviour?

4. Do all people have the same definition of what is risky?

Why and why not?

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=snake+charming&search_type=&aq=f

Prior to the conclusion of the lesson ask students to compile a list of Australian activities that might pose an element of risk to someone looking in from the outside. This list is to be presented and discussed in the next class.