Learning Objectives

Pupils should learn:

• To explore the positive and negative impact of human activity in the wider world

 

Resources

• Vocabulary cards

• Powerpoint: 'man and his fellow animals'

• Powerpoint: 'the Amazon village'

• The Conservation Game' - available free to download from here

 

Vocabulary

conservation, net-benefit, custodian, deforestation

 

Starter activity 

1. Class Activity:

Watch Powerpoint: 'man and his fellow animals'.

 

Main activities

1. Class Activity:

Compile a list of different ways man's activities impact on other animals.

 

2. Class Activity:

Watch Powerpoint: 'the Amazon village' (dividing children into groups as explained at start of Powerpoint).

Run debates at appropriate times as they arise in the Powerpoint.

 

3. Teaching Point/Discussion:

Introduce the principle of 'net benefit' (i.e. the principle that the best decision may not be wholly good for all parties). 

 

4. Class Discussion:

Children discuss where the principle of 'net benefit' might have applied in their Powerpoint debates above.

 

5. Teaching Point:

Introduce the concept that man's power gives him responsibility as custodian of the environment.

 

6. Group activity:

Play the Conservation Game. (Available as a free download here)

 

Plenary activity 

Q: What is the single most important thing mankind could start doing or stop doing to protect the environment?

 

Assessment

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Downloadable lesson plan and resources