Idea Details

This idea is from Helen Gibb's (follow me) mind and was lovingly penned on 15 January 2010.

My idea is ...

To help embed concepts of inequality

e.g. how random life events can mess everything up for people.

How the start you get really matters.

What social factors contribute to a happy life.

Students pick an identity out of a hat, they draw a picture of themselves on card and cut it out.

Fix some Velcro on the back

They name their character

Make a life board out of something Velcro will stick to with a number of levels of wealth and happiness on it.I see it as staying up on the wall in the class as a constant reminder while we do inequality. Have about 3 clear lines for wealth like poverty stability filthy rich. Perhaps a chessboard /graph set up with wealth being up and down and happiness being towards the right and unhappiness towards left. The characters are placed at different places on the board depending on their original identity/profile. Then once a week they get to pick 2 different life events out of a hat, some which will make them richer/poorer some which will make them happier/unhappy. There could be some immunity cards that can be kept and used to protect them from a future bad card in the way that the wealthy can afford insurance. (get out of jail free) Anyway not fully developed yet but thought id share the idea. The weekly event should stimulate conversation I would probably choose carefully the lesson we did it in ie last lesson Friday or first lesson Monday or 2nd half of a double lesson

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Comments (3)

On 23 September 2010 Katie Allan (PM) wrote: Is this for a particular topic?
	On 26 September 2010 Helen Gibb (PM) wrote: it is a starter activity for inequality,but it does highlight general princeples as well
On 24 September 2011 Nicola Ayres (PM) wrote: Heya i love this idea. Just wondering whether you are linking it to a specific sociology topic, or discussing the event they choose at the time. i.e. if its a family or crime based event do you discuss it in relation to the course? Just a thought!

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