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Lesson 1 - First Responses

Suggestions for how you might pick up on the ideas and issues raised by the play and discuss the students’ initial responses. You can select to do one or more from the range included. They can be used as stand alone exercises or as preparation for one of the other lessons. They use a range of strategies and could be used in a variety of different lessons. PSHE/ Science/ English/ Drama/ Form Tutor Period etc.

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LESSON 4 (Drama) – Sonny's Dilemnas


Aim: To consider the factors that influence Sonny’s decision to stop taking and then re-take his Asthma medication.


Objectives:

  1. •To understand the ethical and scientific arguments involved in Sonny’s decision.

  2. •To understand the influence of relationships and emotional factors in Sonny’s decision.

  3. •To vocalise those factors through role-play and improvisation.


National  Curriculum Links
PSHE: KS3 3b, 4g and KS4 1a, 2b, 4g,ENGLISH (Drama): KS3 & KS4 4a, 4b

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Lesson 3 (Drama)  - What do the characters learn?


Aim: To explore how the characters learn and change over the course of the play.


Objectives:

  1. •To understand the inter-connection between relationships and views.

  2. •To understand that personal views may change in relation to other people and events.

  3. •To demonstrate how the characters’ relationships and views change over the course of the play.

National  Curriculum Links
PSHE KS3 3g, h & I  KS4 3e, ENGLISH (Drama) KS3 & KS4 4a & b

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Lesson 2 (Science ) – Regulating Research


Aim: To understand how research using animals is regulated in the UK by simulating a research licence application procedure.


Objectives:

  1. •To weigh up the necessity of using animals for a specific piece of research.

  2. •To explore the possibility of using non-animal research methods.

  3. •To gain an understanding of UK regulations governing research using animals.


National  Curriculum Links
Science KS4 4a & b

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LESSON 5 (PHSE)– CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES


Aim: To explore and understand the differences between stereotypes and complex individuals.


Objectives:

  1. •To create dramatic representations of stereotypes and complex characters.

  2. •To understand why stereotypes arise.

  3. •To understand the limitations of stereotyping.


National  Curriculum Links
PSHE KS3 3a, KS4 3c, ENGLISH(Drama) KS3 & KS4 4a & b

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LESSON 6 (R.E)


Aim: To explore and understand what the major religions say about the relative values of animal and human life and the use of animals for medical research.


Objectives:

  1. •To learn about what the different religious viewpoints are.

  2. •To voice a particular religious viewpoint as if it is your own.

  3. •To understand how a religious viewpoint might influence someone making a decision about using medication tested on animals.

  4. •To understand the value of religious viewpoints in the wider debate about animals in medical research.


National  Curriculum Links
RE: KS3: 1a & e. 3i, j, k, o & p KS4 1a, 2a,b & c

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LESSON  7 (ENGLISH)  LOOKING AT LANGUAGE


Aim: To explore how language is used in the animals in medical research debate to affect a particular response in the reader.


Objectives:

  1. •To identify examples emotive and objective language.

  2. •To understand the different impacts of emotive and objective language.

  3. •To write an article using either emotive or objective language.


National  Curriculum Links
ENGLISH (Reading) KS31a, 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d

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LESSON 8  IT – Presenting Different Points of  View


Aim: To transfer information from video presentation to written document/power point presentation.


Objectives:

  1. •To select relevant information from sources.

  2. •To organise and present information clearly and in a format appropriate to its audience.


National  Curriculum Links
ICT: KS3 1b, 3a & 3b and KS4 1a, 3a & 3b

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