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Lesson plan: Action for global rights
From the Developing Rights online resource
Age group: 11 - 14
Aims:
To give pupils the opportunity to respond to issues of global injustice
that have been raised in other activities by evaluating and selecting
possible actions to take.
This activity may be carried out as an alternative to the previous
lesson.
What to do:
Preparation: make enough copies of the ‘What
can we do?’ worksheet and the Oxfam's
Global Charter for Basic Rights for each pair of pupils to share
one copy.
Give out the Global Charter for Basic Rights and ask pupils, in
pairs, to mark the rights that have been covered in the activities
that they have completed. Now ask them to write what is already
being done to help people to claim these rights. Examples might
be new laws, giving money to charities, recycling, etc.
Now give each pair of pupils the ‘What can we do?’ sheets.
Ask them to choose one right to focus on. They then look at the
range of actions on the sheets and choose one from under each heading
that would relate to this right, or they might themselves be able
to suggest other more appropriate actions. These suggested actions
should then be written down the centre of the sheet of paper. On
either side, pupils now write points for and against each suggested
action. They then look at the list of difficulties and make suggestions
on how these could be overcome.
As a class, ask pupils to feed back to the class the right they
chose and which actions they thought would work best. What were
some of the main difficulties encountered? How could these be overcome?
Extension work:
If there is sufficient enthusiasm for taking action on a particular
rights issue, pupils could use the flow
chart to plan their own action.
Curriculum links:
| England |
Scotland |
Wales |
| English:
- Group discussion and interaction - different contributions;
different views into account; sift and summarise.
Citizenship/PSHE:
- Take responsibility; participate; make real choices and
decisions; develop relationships. |
English:
- Talking in groups; talking about experiences, feelings and
opinions; listening in groups.
Religious and Moral Education:
- Relationships and moral values.
PSD:
- Social development. |
English:
- Group discussion and interaction - different contributions;
different views into account; sift and summarise.
PSE:
- Be committed to practical involvement; action plan and set
targets; review and reflect; work both independently and co-operatively. |
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