Why doesn't everybody have what they need to be happy?
Learning Objectives
- To build empathy between young people in the UK and Africa by finding out about African children's lives.
- To understand why children in Africa may have difficultly accessing school.
- To understand the importance of education in contributing to development.
- To find out how Malawi and Ethiopia are similar and different to the UK.
What do you need for this activity?
- PDF of activity ideas
- A piece of plain paper for each student and something to draw with.
- Teacher's script of Remedan's story.
- One or two visual resources from Remedan's story bank: DVD clip, interactive story, photos or PowerPoint.
- One or two resources from Sigere's story bank: DVD clip, interactive story, poster, story card or PowerPoint.
- Sample of homework about Sigere's life (worksheet).
Create It
Get students to answer the big question 'What Makes You Happy?' in sound, film, photos or video and get it published on this site.
Resource Bank
If you would prefer to make your own resources use this database of audio clips, films and photographs.
