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Lesson plan: Who am I? (30-50 mins)
From the Our Food, Our World online resource
Aims
- To become more familiar with Yamini and Luis
- To make connections between pupils’ own lives and those of Yamini and Luis
- To understand that a snapshot gives useful but limited information about themselves and others
You will need
The following photographs, displayed on a whiteboard or printed out:
> Information on the photographs for teachers
> World map or globe
> Copies of the snapshots for Yamini (167KB pdf) and Luis (378KB pdf)
> One copy per pupil of the empty snapshot enlarged to A3 size (14KB pdf)
> Copy of the empty snapshot enlarged to A3 size or displayed on a whiteboard (14Kb pdf)
> Felt-tipped pens
What to do
If you have already done one of the ‘Favourite foods’ starting points, skip to step 2, otherwise begin with step 1.
- Display the mounted portraits of Luis and Yamini alongside a world map (and/or have a globe available). Use the questions from the Information on the photos for teachers as a basis for initial discussion about the children. Find India and Mexico on the world map or globe.
- Give out snapshots of Yamini and Luis for pupils to read (or to have read to them).
- Next fill out an empty snapshot for yourself in front of the group/class to demonstrate to the pupils how to fill it in. Allow opportunities for discussion about what you write. (You are allowed to be vague about your age!)
- Now ask each pupil to fill in their own snapshot (younger children/children with SEN may need an adult to scribe for them). Pupils can then compare their snapshot with others in the group/class. Next ask pupils to draw a self-portrait at the bottom of the snapshot (or attach a photograph of themselves).
- At the end of the session, allow time to discuss what the snapshot does not tell you about each person, so that pupils begin to see that we cannot assume we know everything about Luis and Yamini from their profiles and snapshots. Also draw attention to the fact that there are differences in what has been written by different pupils (and adults) within the class. Encourage pupils to consider what other children in Mexico and India might have written. Which information in their snapshot is likely to be the same (for example ‘common foods’ and ‘how we get our food’) and which might be different?
From the Our Food, Our World online resource
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