- Ask pupils to read a summary of the minutes of a school governors' or local council meeting, or a summary of a public enquiry into a local issue. Alternatively, invite a representative from the local council's Environmental Department to come and be interviewed about an issue on which members of the local community disagreed, and which was then resolved through a meeting.
- Ask pupils to summarise the different points of view they read/heard about, and say how these were represented at the meeting.
- In small groups, pupils could summarise the findings of the meeting they studied, and explain how the issue was resolved.
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- provide examples of conflicting viewpoints on an issue
- describe how different groups of people have different values and different attitudes towards the issue
- summarise the findings of a meeting and explain how the issue discussed was resolved
- explain how and why particular decisions were made
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