Unit 16: What's in the news? Section 5: What is happening in our local area?
Objectives
Children should learn:
about recent or proposed changes in a locality
to use fieldwork skills
how people affect the environment
to use ICT to present information
Activities
Outcomes
Children:
Use a local issue, eg the building of a new bypass, and collect information through fieldwork, eg photographs, land use in the immediate area, environmental quality.
Use quote cards that outline the views of different interested parties (both for and against) as a stimulus for the children to write reports on the issue. Use word processing, desktop publishing or other appropriate software to present it. As a class, debate the issue.
show how different people in the community may respond to a change by producing a news bulletin
Points to note
To answer the enquiry question, focus activities on specific questions, eg What is it like here? How will this change? How will other people in the community respond?
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