> Here you find a German version of the activity discription and the working sheets:
The children imagine they are sailing to a new continent, but to get there they must choose to cast non-essentials overboard.
Children are divided into small groups and each group gets an envelope with all Wants and Needs cards - these are the things they are packing to take with them for life in the new country. Ask each group to open the envelope, spread out all their cards and examine them.
The boat is setting sail and step by step the teacher tells them a story about their journey to a new land. The story contains little challenges and turnarounds so that the children have to throw overboard ballast weight. That means that they have to decide step by step together which Wants and Needs cards they have put on a pile and keept the cards they would need to survive in new land.
At the end end of their boat trip to a new land they have only a few cards left, they stick them on a poster and explain what they brought to survive, to grow and develop a new society.
Part of the debriefing and evaluation should include the following aspects: group process on decision making; what are human needs? what do people need to survive? to grow up? and to develop well?
Author: Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung Europarat, Direktorat für Jugend und Sport
Year: 2009
Languages: English
Typology of education resource : Class activity
GCE Issues: Human rights
Author: Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung Europarat, Direktorat für Jugend und Sport
Specific sub-thematic area(s): Basic human needs, human rights
Key word(s):
Tags:
human needs , human rights , Human wants
School subject(s)/field(s) of studies in which the educational resource can be used: German Languange, Geography, social learning
Activity’ objectives:
• To evaluate what is essential for survival and development
• To separate wishes from needs
• To connect human needs and human rights
Pupils’ learning competences (SUBJECT- specific) addressed: Children learn to say their opinions and share their points of view. Children learn to distuingish between wishes, wants and basic human needs. Children learn to connect the basic human needs with the topic of human rights.
Pupils’ learning competences (CGE) addressed: Children learn to say their opinions and share their points of view. Children learn to distuingish between wishes, wants and basic human needs. Children learn to connect the basic human needs with the topic of human rights.
Methodology: Cooperative-learning, Problem-based learning, Debate (activity or competition or else), Simulation method
Age range: 8-9, 10-11, 12-14
Link to website: http://www.eycb.coe.int/compasito/chapter_4/4_27.asp