Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 11: Why is it so difficult to keep the peace in the world today?
Section 2: What is really happening to the people involved in the current conflict?
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Objectives |
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- to categorise and select information from different sources about an event of current interest
- about ways in which the media report a conflict
- about the UN Declaration of Human Rights
- to think about topical political, moral, social and cultural issues, using information from different sources
- to summarise information in note form (NSE)
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Activities |
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Outcomes |
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Children: |
- Use an incident from the current conflict as a case study to enable pupils to consider different aspects of the conflict, eg the nature of the fighting, the impact on civilians, previous peace treaties, human rights issues, etc.
- Brainstorm with pupils the different aspects to be considered, or build up a concept map to prepare for the next task.
- Provide groups of pupils with written accounts of the incident from, for example, different newspapers and/or transcripts of TV/radio news. Ask pupils to identify and highlight in the text different aspects of the story, eg the different factions involved, the nature of warfare, the impact of war on civilians. Using these topic headings, each group of pupils produces a summary of the incident on a poster.
- Inform pupils about the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
- Discuss with pupils how the Declaration relates to the incident they are studying: Are there any human rights implications? Who is being deprived of their human rights? Which rights are they being deprived of?
- Pupils annotate their posters with the human rights issues they have identified and display these in the school.
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- analyse information from a variety of sources
- contribute to a group discussion
- identify the main differences between different factions involved in the conflict
- identify the social, moral and cultural aspects of the conflict
- recognise the human rights implications of the conflict and the importance of international charters
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Points to note |
- This section is designed to give pupils the opportunity
to examine an aspect of the conflict in detail and build on their general
knowledge.
- The pupils' use of media sources at this point is for information
gathering but this will be developed further later in the unit.
- Using the Balkans as a case study, this section could focus
on events in one particular town or the destruction of a significant site,
eg a bridge or factory.
- See unit 3 'Human rights' for further
exploration of human rights and refugees.
- Link with key skills: communication.
- Link with thinking skills: information processing.
- Link with NSE: year
7 R4, year
8 R5, year
9 R3.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
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