What is racism?

Lesson overview

Learning Area:English Life Skills and PDHPE Life Skills
Age Group:Secondary Lower – Secondary Middle

Learning intention

To learn about what racist behaviour is and to be able to identify it when we see it at school, at home, online, or in the community.

Success criteria

Students can explain what racism is and provide some broad examples or situations of how individuals might be discriminated against based on race (including indicators such as food, language, skin colour, religion, culture or heritage).

Introduction

These resources have been developed to support delivery to students accessing a Life Skills curriculum across stages 4-6.