The World's Largest Lesson: Lesson Plan Competition

TEACHERS OF THE WORLD! In September 2015 The World Will Have A Plan.

What’s Yours?

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In September 2015 the United Nations will announce the “Sustainable Development Goals” - a set of goals for the world that aim to make our planet fair, healthy and sustainable by 2030.

This is an opportunity to foster global citizenship in your school, support student learning across a range of subject areas such as science, geography, citizenship and technology and develop big ideas including human rights, poverty, and environmental issues.

When the goals are announced The World’s Largest Lesson, in partnership with the UNICEF, will take place. This will help students understand the significance of these new global goals to their futures, and the crucial role they could play in realizing them.

The lesson will consist of video and audio materials to be shared with students. To extend this, millions of teachers across the globe are being invited to join us in making history by creating and sharing high quality lesson ideas or plans about the Global Goals that are relevant to the students they teach.

Our aim is to create a gold standard set of learning resources that cover the issues that the Global Goals raise. We believe that these resources can only come from teachers.

You will be competing against teachers and schools across the world to share a lesson idea. Winning lessons will be chosen by you and your teacher peers for their quality and creativity by rating ideas against all others submitted on a website.

This is a chance to ignore resource constraints and be truly creative. Don’t worry if you don’t have exactly the right content for your lesson. Just tell us what you would like and if your lesson wins we will do everything possible to perfect it by working with you to add exactly what you need.

As overall winner, you and your school will be invited to be part of a celebrity lesson experience, that will be filmed and showcased around the world.

All regional winners will be given the opportunity for their lesson to be developed further and added, in their name, to a gold standard set of resources for The World’s Largest Lesson to be used by millions of teachers across the world in September 2015.

TIMING Competition submission closing date 17th April 2015 Rating and Peer Review to determine winning submissions closes 1st May 2015

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WHAT TO DO

How to view other submissions View other teachers’ lessons; review, comment, make suggestions, and rate them. By doing this you will be helping to decide which are the best and most interesting lessons and helping to choose the winner.

Create an idea or plan for a 30 – 60 minute lesson or classroom activity about either: i) the principle of the goals and their overall purpose ii) a theme from the goals that means most to the children you teach (See the themes from the Sustainable Development Goals below)

There will be 1 regional winner from each of the following regions:

To be taught to children in one of:

Western Europe Eastern Europe Sub-Saharan Africa South Asia Southeast Asia Oceania Middle East & North Africa Latin America and The Caribbean Northern America Central and East Asia

i) Upper Elementary/Primary phase (aged 8-11years) ii) Lower Secondary phase (aged 11-14 years)

You can create your lesson plan in any one of the 6 UN languages Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish

If your lesson is selected we will contact you using the details you have registered. We will offer you the chance to work on your lesson further, introduce you to experts on the topic who may be able to help and add additional content into it if you’d like.

You can create and upload your lesson using a range of different file types. You don't need the latest technology, you could write your idea on a piece of paper, photograph it an upload it.

Adding a description on the submission form.

For terms and conditions please visit www.tes.co.uk/worldslargestlesson

How to enter and share your lesson plan.

Visit www. tes.co.uk/worldslargestlesson

Fill in the registration details Review the brief and lesson plan submission form (see below) Identify the learning objective for your lesson, fill in the additional information required and upload your lesson idea or plan.

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SAMPLE LESSON IDEA SUBMISSION FORM

Name School Region

Lesson title/aim Age range Subject(s) Learning outcomes

Up to three • Explain what students should have learnt by the end of the lesson • A reference to a theme from the Sustainable Development Goals should be made clear

Introduction

Optional • Up to 150 words • Describe how you would introduce the ideas students will be learning about; a starter activity

Main activity

Up to 350 words • This will be the main space for judging your lesson idea, make sure activities are clearly explained and try to avoid jargon • Describe the learning activities students would do in the lesson

Plenary

Optional • Up to 150 words • Describe how you would finish the lesson, how would you check students’ understanding of what they have learnt?

Additional information/ resources:

Optional • This space is for you to include images, videos, links, presentations or any other information to further explain and support your lesson idea

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SUPPORT MATERIALS AND IDEAS Themes from the Sustainable Development Goals.

No Hunger​​​

No Poverty

Good Health

Quality Education

Gender Equality

Fresh Water and Sanitation for all

Energy for Everyone

Good Jobs and Economic Growth

Solid Infrastructures

Global Equality

Safe Environments

Sustainable Living

Protect the Planet

Protect Life Below Water

Protect Life Above Water

Justice and Peace

Global Consciousness

Interdependence

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EXAMPLE LESSON PLANS

Name School Region

Lesson title/aim

Protecting our oceans

Age range

11-14

Subject(s)

science, geography

Learning outcomes

• Develop knowledge of threats to oceans • Explore ideas of how to use oceans sustainably

Introduction Main activity

Show students a series of images of damaged oceans e.g. oil spills, bleached coral, plastic waste.

They have to say what they think happened before the photo and what will happen after. Can differentiate by using a range of images, some with more obvious causes and effects.

Next students read through a selection of threats to oceans and sort them into groups and/or a hierarchy of most to least serious. They need to be ready to explain and justify their choices to the class. Opportunity to differentiate by having different levels ofdetail and more or less complex text.

Students are given some solutions/suggestions for sustainable ocean use that they match to the threats e.g. small scale fishing to match to large hauler fishing, restrictions on tourist activity at coral reefs to match to multiple tourist boats/ litter. Finally, students choose one of the sustainable uses and write a paragraph explaining what the threat is, why it damages the ocean (and beyond?) and how the solution can help. They can use textbooks, the internet or pre-prepared materials to add detail to their writing. They should make sure they include examples/place names.

Plenary

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EXAMPLE 2

Name School Region

Lesson title/aim

Why do we have goals?

Age range

8-11

Subject(s) Learning outcomes

• Think about the purpose of goal setting • Develop knowledge of the Sustainable Development Goals • Write a persuasive letter

Introduction

Hand out a challenge to each student on a folded up piece of paper. One half of the room has the challenge to ‘Make four paper airplanes in the next two minutes’ and the other half just has a blank piece of paper. Get all students to start their challenge at the same time. Use old paper and newspaper! At the end of the two minutes ask students how many made one airplane, two, three etc. – get them to put their hands up. Next students discuss in pairs how they felt about the task and what they can learn from it. Feedback answers to the group and introduce the idea of goal-setting.

Main activity

Share a definition for a goal and some examples and ask students to complete the following sentence ‘Goals help us to….’ Then ask students to set themselves a goal for the day, which you can revisit the next day and see if they achieved it.

Explain to students that it isn’t just people who set goals but also organisations, like their school, governments and even many governments working together. Then show them a selection of the SDGs (this could be a video clip, presentation or handout) and explain what their purpose. Students then split into groups of four. Each group has some further information about one of the SDGs – this could include numbers or graphs, photos and personal stories. They must study and discuss the information then each complete a short fact sheet

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EXAMPLE 2

Main activity

about their goal, with information such as ‘How many people does this goal aim to help?’.

Students then form new groups with one person from each of the goal groups. Everyone shares their goal fact sheets and after listening to each other, students write in their book which goal they think is most important and why.

To finish, students write a letter to their government persuading them to support the SDG and explaining why they think it is so important. They must use examples to support their argument.

Plenary

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EXAMPLE 3

Name School Region

Lesson title/aim

What is interdependence?

Age range

8-11

Subject(s)

Geography, PSHE

Learning outcomes

• Explain the term interdependence • Know some ways they are connected with the wider world

Introduction

In pairs, students have one minute to brainstorm all of the people in their school community, including themselves. Feedback ideas to the class.

Each pair is then handed a card with one of these roles on it e.g. canteen worker, cleaner, care taker, head teacher, librarian, nurse – and they have three minutes to think of all the ways that person helps/is connected to other people in the school. You could do an example as a class first e.g. students help cleaners by throwing their rubbish in the bin, they help the librarian by replacing books in the correct place, they help teachers by tidying up at the end of lessons.

Main activity

You could extend the introductory activity by asking students to think about how the school is connected to the local community. Would the school be able to function without these links?

Introduce the term interdependence to students.

Read or show students the Martin Luther King quote “Before you finish eating breakfast this morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world”. Ask students to discuss in pairs what they think this means. Feedback ideas to the class.

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EXAMPLE 3

Main activity

Get students to quickly brainstorm all of the breakfast foods they can think of or write down what they had for breakfast. Then hand out blank world maps, atlases and food information sheets.

On their map, students draw a line from their home country to the country where each food comes from and write the name of the food and country next to it. At the bottom of the map students should write a sentence explaining what it shows, they should include the word interdependence in their answer.

Extension ideas – ask students to think of another way they are connected to the wider world, what do they rely on that isn’t produced nearby? Do they know any local products or services that are produced near them that other places need?

Introduce the SDGs to the class by explaining that interdependence means that all the countries around the world need to come together to make it a better place. With this in mind, the SDGs have been created to help everyone live more happily together in the future. Show a video and/or selection of the SDGs to add more background.

Plenary

Additional information /resources:

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Have a selection of quotes and images stuck up around the room that could be used to explain interdependence. Give students 5 minutes to choose one that they think best demonstrates the concept or that they think they could explain and to stand next to it. Then pick a couple of students to explain their choices to the class ‘Interdependence’ is a word we use to describe how our lives are connected with the lives of people in other countries. It helps us to understand how people, places, money and the environment are all linked together, and how we all depend upon each other. The world we live in today is an ‘Interdependent’ world. World maps could have the relevant countries shaded in, for students with less advanced map skills.Food info sheets will list different breakfast foods and the country where they come from.E.g. a ying yang symbol, a picture of a busy port, a selection of the SDGs, Chief Seattle quote “Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

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IMAGE CREDITS

No Hunger

Global Equality

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC)

Pabak Sarkar

FMSC Distribution Partner - Haiti

The fist

No Poverty

Safe environments

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC)

Steven Depolo

FMSC Distribution Partner - City of Dreams

Grand Rapids Township Park Playground Sustainable living

Good Health

Holiday Gems

US Army Africa

stockport market - veg stall

MEDFLAG 09: U.S. Army Africa Partnership

Protect the planet

strengthens ties with partners in Swaziland

Stephen Chin Quality Education

Geek Bike Ride Shanghai

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC)

Protect life below water

FMSC Distribution Partner - Haiti

Rennett Stowe Shark and fish

Gender Equality Guillaume Paumier

Protect animals above water

Gay pride 2011 Ă Toulouse

Evan Animals Fresh Water and Sanitation for all

Orangutans

Official U.S. Navy Page Justice and peace

Lt. Jose Mora pumps water for residents.

UNclimatechange Energy for Everyone

Global Day of Action March

Tom - Geneva, US Good jobs and Economic Growth

Global Consciousness

Sebastiaan ter Burg

Scott Cresswell

Business Models Inc meeting

Just a face in the crowd

Solid Infrastructuresy

Interdependence

Jerry Huddleston

woodleywonderworks

Cheyenne Frontier Days Train

soccer practice

Pierce, Colorado

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