CTG_Overview

** CLOSING THE GAP** This unit is about the uneven distribution of wealth, resources and access to health services across the world’s peoples. Students will commence the unit by establishing the difference between their own needs and wants and begin to question what really is essential in their lives. They will investigate what poverty is, who it affects, and ways people are trying to address issues of poverty in the world. Students will compare the living conditions and health related issues of people from around the world including Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Through examining the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals they will identify ways different groups are working to support people in need. Through the ‘Close the Gap’ campaign students will identify the huge gap in the health needs and issues of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as compared to other Australians.
 * Level 4 VELS, Years 5 and 6**
 * Overview**
 * Understandings**
 * In our world there are some people who have more than they need, some people who have enough, and others who do not have enough resources to meet their needs.
 * There are people across the world, within Australia, and in our own community who cannot access what they need to maintain their wellbeing.
 * Indigenous Australians have significant health issues compared to other groups within Australia.
 * We all have a responsibility to contribute to a more ‘equitable’ world where the dignity of every person is respected.

How can we work towards a more ‘equitable’ world?
 * Rich Question**
 * Contributing Questions**
 * What factors contribute to our wellbeing?
 * What is essential in your life? (needs and wants)
 * Who has enough in the world? Who doesn’t?
 * Do all Australian people have enough to meet their needs?
 * Why do some people have so little whilst others have more than they need?
 * Why do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have more health issues than other Australians?
 * Why are some groups of people more at risk than others?
 * Who are the people who work to make a difference?
 * How can we make a difference?

From the Yarra Healing website: essential learnings. ** Overview Assessment ** Tuning in (building stage) Finding out Sorting out Reflection Action Resources
 * Background Notes**
 * //Koorie People Today//**
 * When developing units of work on this particular topic, the following learnings need to be considered:**
 * There is diversity of lifestyles amongst Indigenous communities today.
 * Kinship ties are integral to Koorie identity and lifestyles.
 * A sense of belonging to 'a place' is an important feature of Koorie identity, although this has been impeded by the dislocation suffered by Indigenous people. Members of regional populations are knitted together by reciprocal relationships of hospitality and help and by lifelong bonds of affection, duty and loyalty to relatives and friends.
 * Significant advances have been made by Koorie organisations and people seeking to overcome the long history of discrimination and disadvantage in mainstream social, educational and economic structures.
 * Efforts to redress past injustices and to advance the status and cultural integrity of Indigenous people are responsibilities which belong to all Australians.
 * Index**