PSHEE: Valuing Diversity - Lesson 1

• Citizenship
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

1. Valuing Diversity

Made possible with the support
of the PSHE Association

Learning objective:

To learn about the
impact of individual's beliefs and actions on community cohesion.

What do you already know about

Diversity?

“We are far more united
and have far more
in common with each other than things that divide us”

- Helen Joanne Cox
 

Working with the person next to you, 

Do you agree with the message behind that quote? Why?

Media misrepresentation: What effect is 

this headline supposed to have on its readers?

Use this slide as an opportunity for your students to discuss this issue - refer to the PSHE teaching guidelines on the PSHE Association website if you are at all worried about keeping the discussion respecful.

What were the responses?

"Almost all flights from Romania to England are full – even though one airline doubled the number to meet demand – with one-way tickets selling for up to £3,000 each.

And all tickets for seats on buses leaving the Bulgarian capital of Sofia until January 9 have been snapped up.

Wizz Air, the low cost airline that serves Eastern Europe, has doubled the number of flights it is offering. However, because of the demand, even these no-frills flights are being sold at around £300 each...

All seats on two British Airways flights from Sofia to London Heathrow next Sunday and Monday – each carrying more than 152 passengers – have been sold."

Daily Mail - 31st December 2013

Misconception

"a view or opinion that is incorrect because based on faulty thinking or understanding" 

"public misconceptions about antibiotic use"

What are some of the ways

 that we can correct our own

misconceptions?

Quiz

Most of the people who come to live in this country from abroad are trying to escape war.

1. True
2. False

Quiz

Many people coming to the UK already

have family or jobs arranged in the UK.

1. True
2. False

Quiz

People who come to live in the UK from abroad

are unlikely to find jobs so the government has

to spend a lot of money to look after them.

1. True
2. False

Quiz

People from abroad coming to the UK is a problem because they increase crime.

1. True
2. False

Using your experience, or something you have seen in the news,

 how can the action of one person, affect the opinion 

of a group of observers? Is this always fair?

How is social media connected to 

Can this go wrong? 

misconceptions or social opinion?

Name one thing this lesson has helped you think about

Aardappeloproer

1917

Enkele Amsterdamse vrouwen zagen dat er een schip vol aardappelen in een van de grachten lag. Ze gingen erop af en plunderden het schip: hun schorten vol aardappelen. De dag erna waren er meer plunderaars. Pas nadat zes mensen door het leger werden doodgeschoten, keerde de rust terug