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This idea is from Helen Gibb's (follow me) mind and was lovingly penned on 19 March 2010.

My idea is ...

Thats Life

I have now been doing this activity for about 2 months we do it at the start of every lesson and the students love it.I only do an up down about wealth and it is only life events that affect wealth.that they pull out of the hat.When we finished all the events they made me put them back in so we could carry on.

I call it thats life and played the Frank Sinatra song twice while they were making the game which they also loved.

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 .

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