Learning Intentions students are learning to...
- Understand some aspects of important developments in health during the 1950s.
- Consider the ways in which expectations of youth and gender roles have changed since the 1950s
Success Criteria how do students know they have achieved the learning intentions?
- Students will be able answer questions about health, education and gender roles in a manner which demonstrates they understand how these have changed over time.
Relevant Footage
Disk Two
Health
Education & Youth
Lesson Outline
- Briefly discuss what students already know about Plunket. Do they know how their own families may have received assistance from this organisation? Have they seen advertisements on television for Plunket?
- How do students think health care may have been different during the 1950s? Have they heard of Tuberculosis? Do they know it has reappeared recently within some poor areas of New Zealand?
- Show the footage on Health (note the men smoking in the footage on x-raying for TB), Education and Youth. Have students work through the worksheet (Resource Seven: Healthy Happy Youth) as they view.
- Students could also do a short research project on the history of Plunket or Girl Guides.
