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Unit 6

Planning a community for the future

Read the text below (left) before carrying out the activity.

Ideas for your classroom: your future environment

The strategy suggested in the activity on the right will help you think about ways of developing your pupils' perceptions of how they would like their environment to be in the future.

Activity Resources:

  • Images
  • Interactive
  • Sound
  • Text
  • Video

Activity

  1. Click on the Text icon for the 'My town, my future' activity from Education for Citizenship: ideas into action (Clough and Holden, 2002, pp. 52-3).
  2. Carry out the activity.
  3. Display the work, such as photos, maps or recommendations for future improvements to the local environment or community, in a prominent place in the school.
  4. Invite members of the local community to view the work on display.