Antisectarian

Lesson Ideas for S2 PSHE

These PSHE Lesson ideas have been developed by Andrena Waghorn, PT Guidance, for S2 pupils at Craigie High School, Dundee. The ideas are drawn from activity and lesson ideas within the anti-sectarian resource but adapted for local relevance.

Purposes of the curriculum 3-18 

These lesson ideas contribute toward young people becoming:

  • successful learners able to make reasoned evaluations
  • confident individuals able to relate to others, manage themselves and be self aware
  • responsible citizens with respect for others and commitment to participate responsibly in political, economic, social and cultural life
  • effective contributors able to create and develop

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SOCIAL EDUCATION LESSON PLAN

 
YEAR GROUP: S2TOPIC: TOLERANCEWEEK: 2-3 
 
LESSON TITLEOBJECTIVESACTIVITIESRESOURCES

Living with Others:
Tolerance and Understanding

  • To look at differences between people
  • To recognise that people have lots of things in common
  • To develop skills in tolerance and understanding
  • To be aware of stereotyping
  • To be more aware of diversity in the country we live in
  • To examine our own beliefs and how these come about
  1. Issue pupils with Contact Circle Sheet. Pupils write their own name in the middle and then add all the people they come in contact with between the circles
  2. Using coloured pencils or different shapes pupils should connect everyone who is one group e.g. all family, friends, all school related etc
  3. Now ask class to look at the differences
    e.g. which ones are married, which ones are single, tall, small, old, young, from different ethnic groups, sexual orientation, ability/disability etc. Do they always know all this type of information about these people? Does it matter? Does it make any difference to their relationship with them? Does it make them more of less?

Contact Circle Sheet

Coloured Pencils/Pens

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SOCIAL EDUCATION LESSON PLAN

 
YEAR GROUP: S2TOPIC: TOLERANCEWEEK: 2-3 
 
LESSON TITLEOBJECTIVESACTIVITIESRESOURCES

Living with Others:
Tolerance and Understanding

 
  1. Would they know the answers to the following questions about these people- what religion they are, what place of worship they go to, what foods they eat at home, what their cultural background is etc.
  2. Again reiterate do they need to know these things in order to have a relationship with them? Are these things important in the day to day contact they have with others? (Some will be and some not)
 

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SOCIAL EDUCATION LESSON PLAN

 
YEAR GROUP: S2TOPIC: TOLERANCEWEEK: 2-3 
 
LESSON TITLEOBJECTIVESACTIVITIESRESOURCES

Living with Others:
Tolerance and Understanding

 
  1. Examine what things all the people in their Contract Circle have in common e.g. they all have to eat, sleep, worry, work, become ill etc
  2. Look at OHP of features of Culture-go through each one and examine whether people do have in common.
  3. Issue Culture and Differences Sheet- pupils answer as best as they can. Finish by putting in order of importance
  4. Again, draw from the class how important most of these things are

OHP of Features of culture.

Culture and Differences sheet

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SOCIAL EDUCATION LESSON PLAN

 
YEAR GROUP: S2TOPIC: TOLERANCEWEEK: 2-3 
 
LESSON TITLEOBJECTIVESACTIVITIESRESOURCES

Living with Others:
Tolerance and Understanding

 
  1. Lead onto stereotypes- pupils brainstorm different kinds of stereotypes e.g. all Scottish men have red hair and are called Jimmy, all Catholics support Celtic, all Asians are shopkeepers etc
  2. Lead onto dangers associated with stereotyping e.g. problems with associating values with a particular stereotype. Look at terms associated with differences e.g. sectarianism (newspaper articles from recent newspapers), wars in different parts of the world.
 

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SOCIAL EDUCATION LESSON PLAN

 
YEAR GROUP: S2TOPIC: TOLERANCEWEEK: 2-3 
 
LESSON TITLEOBJECTIVESACTIVITIESRESOURCES

Living with Others:
Tolerance and Understanding

 
  1. Finish by asking class to design a poster based on tolerance and understanding. Show pupils poster of One Scotland, Many Cultures

Newspaper articles

Scottish Executive posters "One Scotland, Many Cultures"

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SOCIAL EDUCATION LESSON PLAN

 
YEAR GROUP: S2TOPIC: TOLERANCEWEEK: 2-3 
 
LESSON TITLEOBJECTIVESACTIVITIESRESOURCES

Living with Others:
Tolerance and Understanding

 
  1. Issue pupils leaflets "Different and Equal". Pupils can use the information in this to design a poster for the local neighbourhood about tolerance and understanding based on work they have done over the last few weeks

Move onto PSHE lessons on Living with Others: Dealing with disability etc

Pupils leaflets "Different but Equal"

Or go to the Culture exercise in the website

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