Year 7 Project

Day Skills Attributes

Unit: MEDIA AND SOCIETY

Content Experiences Resources

One, Two, Three, Four.

Access and evaluate. Information Research. Scanning (reading). Note taking. Summarizing. Presentation skills. Communication. Reflection. Critical judgement. Evaluation analysis. Synthesis. Presentation skills.

Empathise Examine Discover Compare Judge

Student investigates aspects of gun culture in Britain and the USA What does the term Gun Culture mean?- EG USA guns are protected in their constitution (2nd amendment) Watch power point on Guns and Music and gather initial ideas. 1. What do we mean by the word culture? What do we mean by the word identity? Look these terms up online. Students think about their own identity. List food/dress/celebrations/music/language 2. Research the politics of the gun in the USA /UK using Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_Kingdom Students should prepare answers to the following: a. Explain in your own words what gun culture means in USA and how it means something different in the UK b. From your research what do you think the gun represents /symbolises? In the gun culture section of the USA document it states that the neutrality of this section is disputed. What does this mean and why? c. In the USA what is the NRA and what does it stand for? d. Explain some of the arguments why Americans want to continue to be allowed to have guns e. Summarise the key points of gun law in the UK f. Recount a crime involving guns Evaluate wikipedia as a source of information 3. Use the Gangs/Gun Crime resource pack to investigate different aspects of who is to blame and what can be done? Investigate different aspects of the issue and assemble in the form of a newspaper article. BBC video link re: gangs http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=gang %20member&tab=av&recipe=all&scope=all&edition=d 4. Design survey questions to uncover school wide views about gun crime and gun culture. 5. Students to write a discussion piece: Who is to blame for the increase in gun crime in the United Kingdom?

Preparing a response to an important issue. Independent learning.

Gun crime in USA Gun crime in UK Gun crime resource pack Writing framework

Use sites such as: BBC Guardian online You tube Wikipedia For further resources

SEAL: Self awareness 5, 6. Managing my feelings 13, 14. Motivation 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30. Empathy 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38. Social skills 39, 40, 43, 50.