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Lesson plan: Finding out about armed conflict
From Making Sense of World Conflicts online resource
Age group:
14–17
Objectives
Learning outcomes
You will need
What to do
Objectives
- To explore and extend knowledge about armed conflict.
Learning outcomes
Pupils will have:
- anticipated responses and tested ideas and conclusions.
- developed information-processing skills.
You will need
What to do
Starter
1. Hand out the Armed conflict quiz, and ask pupils to do it either individually or in pairs. Tell them that it is not a test and not to worry if they don’t know the answers – they should guess. It is a way of both finding out what they know about conflict in today’s world and giving them some information when they get the answers. Give them about ten minutes to do the quiz.
Activity
2. Go through the answers to the quiz and discuss any particular points that need clarifying. Discuss any information that surprised pupils. Were any misconceptions demonstrated through doing the quiz? How do misconceptions arise?
3. Ask
pupils what the quiz can tell us about changes in armed conflict. Are today’s armed conflicts more or less likely to affect civilians than in the past? Draw out the point that present-day armed conflicts are far more likely to involve and affect civilians.
4. Brainstorm the armed conflicts that pupils know about that are happening at present.
5. Ask
pairs of pupils to research and map or list present-day armed conflicts. Information, lists and maps of contemporary armed conflict can be located on the Peace Pledge Union website or through search engines.
6. Are there
any surprises about the location of conflicts? Are there any surprises about the number of conflicts? Are any of these armed conflicts not reported in the news? Why would conflicts get ‘forgotten’?
7. Discuss where pupils had gaps in their knowledge and why that might be. Refer back to the work done on conflict in the news (if appropriate). Discuss how much we learn about conflict and war from the media. How important is it to know about conflicts in the world?
Closing discussion
8. How
can we find out more about armed conflicts and wars? Discuss which sources are likely to give: the most factual information; the most interesting; the most up-to-date; the most neutral; the most biased etc.
9. Pupils should list three things that they have learned about armed conflict in the world today and give the source.
> Click here for answers to the Armed conflict quiz
From Making Sense of World Conflicts online resource
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