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Lesson plan: The next generation
From the Developing Rights online resource
Age group: 11 - 14
Aims:
To encourage pupils to identify similarities and differences in
a number of lists of rights and try to account for these.
What to do:
Preparation: the Planet X lesson should
be completed. Make enough photocopies of the Global Charter for Basic Rights, and the Rights from Earth lists, to allow one set for each
group of four pupils. It might also be useful for you to read the
relevant country background information.
Explain to the pupils that their colony on Planet X has received
news from Earth that three other groups are going to come and settle.
This should not cause a problem, as there is plenty of room on Planet
X.
Point out that each group on Earth has sent their agreed list of
rights for pupils to compare with their own and comment on. They
have also supplied some information about their backgrounds on Earth.
The groups come from Ethiopia, South Africa, and Lebanon.
Now divide the class into small groups. Ask each group to write
down what they would expect children from these countries to have
in their rights lists. (It may be helpful to preface this by collecting
brief ideas about what those countries are like.)
Now give each group a set of the Rights from Earth lists. How do
these compare with what they were expecting? What are the similarities
to and differences from their own list?
As a class, ask pupils to feed back ideas on the similarities and
differences between the lists. Why do they think these differences
have occurred? They should also compare the examples of what each
group left out with their own discarded items from Activity 1. Are
there any similarities? Were the omissions ‘wants’ rather
than ‘needs’? Is there anything that surprises pupils
in the comparisons? Now collect a set of agreed comments on the
lists which can be relayed back to the Earth groups. Seek to encourage
a tolerance of differences -- there is no ‘best’ list
of rights.
For the second part of this activity, explain to the class that
the comments they made have been received on Earth. Planet X has
now received a Global Charter for Basic Rights which has been drawn
up by many people on Earth. The Earth groups believe that these
rights should be available to everyone on Earth. They would like
to receive pupils’ comments on whether the rights would also
be suitable for everyone living on Planet X.
Give a copy of the Global Charter for Basic Rights to each group
for discussion and comment. Why do they think these have been called
‘basic rights’?
Curriculum links:
| England |
Scotland |
Wales |
| English:
- Group discussion and interaction - different contributions;
different views into account; sift and summarise; help the
group complete its task; reading for meaning.
Citizenship/PSHE:
- Communicate confidently with peers and adults; participate;
consider social and moral dilemmas; how to empathise with
people different from themselves. |
English:
- Listening in groups; talking in groups; talking about experiences,
feelings and opinions; reading for information.
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; help the
group complete its task; reading for meaning.
PSE:
- Listen attentively in different situations and respond appropriately;
communicate confidently one's feelings and views; empathise
with others' experiences and feelings. |
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