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Classroom activity: The war – what we know and what we can
find out From Iraq: war and peace online
resource
Age group: 8 to 16 year olds
Aims:
To address issues related to the situation
that are of real concern to pupils. To enable pupils to find out more about the
situation To help the pupils feel that they can talk
about the issues
What to do:
Ask your class if they have any questions about the war and aftermath.
Suggest that the pupils work in groups and note down all their concerns,
then vote within the group for the three questions they are most
concerned about. The top three questions from each group should
be written on three separate pieces of paper.
Collect the three questions from each group and display them in
a prominent place. Then ask for help in dividing them into different
kinds of questions:
(a) those that we can’t know the answer to at the moment,
but can come back to at another agreed time
(b) those that we can find out the answer to now
Look at the distribution of questions under the two headings.
Explain that we can’t do much about (a) questions at the
moment because the answers won’t be known for some time. However,
we can look at the (b) questions and find out about them. This can
be done using various resources, individually or in groups. Display
the findings and agree to review the (a) questions later on.
Questions submitted might include the following:
How many people have been killed? (b)
What will happen to the people who have been hurt? (a)
What is Britain doing to help Iraq now? (b)
Why was there fighting in the first place? (b)
Are we in any danger in the UK? (b)
What will happen in the end? (a)
From Iraq: war and peace online
resource
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