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New Year's resolutions with a difference!
| We all make New Year’s resolutions,
but we usually choose to change something about ourselves
– such as exercising more or eating healthier food.
In 2007, we want young people (and teachers!) to extend their
thoughts beyond the personal changes they would make and consider
how, as a class, they could work collectively to improve their
school, their local community and their world. |
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Photo: Crispin Hughes/Oxfam
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This activity is designed to help young people start 2007 by building on that belief that they can make a difference in their own lives and the lives of their friends, community, school, nation, and people around the world.
- Click here for the Welsh language version
of this activity
About the activity
Supporting Materials
About the activity
Suitable for pupils aged 7–14, the activity
is relevant for work in PSE/PSHE/PSD, Citizenship, Education for
Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship, Literacy and Human Geography.
How you run the lesson is up to you, but we’ve
included some photos that you might want to use to stimulate ideas
and discussion about different types of New Year’s resolution.
Children can work collaboratively to decide what these images suggest
to them, and what they mean when thinking about changes they want
to see in their personal, school, local, and global environments.
Within the activity is a challenge: can your class
come up with some of the suggestions outlined in the information?
Of course, the images will provoke a range of different suggestions
and lines of enquiry worth exploring in the classroom, but whatever
your pupils’ suggestions and views, we, at Oxfam, would love
to hear about them.
Email us with your class’s New Year’s
resolutions: coolplanet@oxfam.org.uk
and we’ll share them online!
Supporting materials
- Flow
chart outlining a possible lesson structure (ppt. download,
17KB)
- Four sets of images [for use on
a whiteboard, computer screen or as printouts]: Personal, Classroom
and School, Local Community, and Global. These are available as
part of the slides downloadable below.
- Slides
for display to your class [for use on a whiteboard]. This
includes a suggested format for helping the class to think about
practical ways to achieve their resolutions (ppt. download, 9.91MB).
Please note this is a large file and might take some time to download. Alternatively, you can download each slide individually, using the links below.
> Slide 1: Introduction (ppt. 13.5KB)
> Slide 2: Overview (ppt. 16KB)
> Slide 3: Personal (ppt. 4,670KB)
> Slide 4: Classroom and school (ppt. 1,488KB)
> Slide 5: Local (ppt. 1,693KB)
> Slide 6: Global (ppt. 2,425KB)
> Slide 7: 'I will value my friends more by ... ' (ppt. 17KB)
> Slide 8: 'I will improve my school's links to the community by ... ' (ppt. 19KB)
> Slide 9: 'I will find out more about poverty in the South by ... ' (ppt. 21KB)
- Ideas
for possible outcomes from the lesson (ppt. download, 33.5KB).
This slide provides examples of the types of New Year's resolution
we hope young people might make as a result of this activity.
It also gives a prompt about ways teachers and schools can support
sustainable development both locally and globally, by being active
global citizens.
- Using photographs
in the classroom: guidance for teachers.
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