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Lesson plan: Tsunami in the media
From the Tsunami in Asia
online resource
Aims
To encourage pupils to look critically at the media reports.
To allow pupils to explore what impact the media has
on their thinking.
To develop skills of co-operation through reaching
group consensus.
You will need
Multiple sets (one set per group) of six newspaper articles, headlines
or images about the Indian Ocean tsunami. You could use either all
headlines, all images, all articles, or a combination of items.
Thought-bubble-shaped paper (pupils could prepare
these themselves)
What to do:
Arrange pupils in groups of four or five. Give each group a copy
of the set of newspaper items you have collected.
Ask pupils to discuss the newspaper items they have
been given. For each item they should consider the main message
the item is conveying and what their reaction to it is – how
does it make them feel?
They should then rank the items, according to which
makes most impression on them. To do this they could arrange the
items in the following shape, putting the one that they agree makes
the biggest impact at the top.
Come back together as a class and allow groups to
present their top item explaining how it made them feel and the
reasons for their choices.
As a class look at the similarities and differences
between the top items chosen.
Consider what the factors were that made the items
so powerful and summarise the points.
Give each pupil a thought-bubble-shaped piece of paper
and ask them to write what impact the item had on them. Use the
thought bubbles and the summarised points about how the item works
to make a display.
From the Tsunami in Asia
online resource
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