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Lesson plan: Disasters - raising the issues

From the Dealing with Disasters online resource

Age group: 11 - 14

Aims:
To encourage pupils to consider their own attitudes towards disasters and their causes.
To encourage pupils to work together through discussion, argument, and compromise.

This starter activity explores initial ideas about disasters (many of which may be based on inaccurate stereotypes). The ideas raised can be referred back to at a later date, when pupils have completed more work and can look more critically at their own attitudes.

What to do:
Download and photocopy the statements on disasters worksheet so that you have one sheet for each pair of pupils. In pairs, ask pupils to choose one statement that they agree with and one that they disagree with. Now ask them to share their choices and the reasons for them with another pair. Come together as a class and consider the following questions.

  • Where do our attitudes and opinions about disasters come from?

  • Where does most of the information we have about the world come from? Adults, TV, papers, friends . . .?

  • How can we get other sources of information?

Curriculum links:

England

Scotland

Wales

Citizenship/PSHE:
- Effects of stereotyping; empathy; consider social and moral dilemmas.

Geography:
- Appreciate how people's values and attitudes, including their own, affect ... issues, and to clarify and develop their own values and attitudes to issues.

English:
- Group discussion and interaction - contributions to groups; taking different views into account; sift, summarise and use the most important points.

Environmental Studies; Society:
- Human-physical interactions.
- Developing informed attitudes - interaction of people with their environment.

English:
- Listening in groups; talking in groups; talking about experiences, feelings and opinions; reading for information.

PSD:
- Social development.

Geography:
- Appreciate how people's values and attitudes, including their own, affect …issues, and to clarify and develop their own values and attitudes to issues.

English:
- Group discussion and interaction - contributions to groups; taking different views into account; sift, summarise and use the most important points.

PSE:
-Critically evaluate others' viewpoints; empathise with others' experiences and feelings; make moral judgements and resolve moral issues and dilemmas.


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