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Lesson four - pages 8-9 Change
and regeneration
Text from the book
Can this place ever be the same again?
How has this place been changed?
Natural or human disasters cause devastating changes
in the lives of people and their homes and surrounding. In time,
new communities emerge, where once there was only death and destruction.
Learning objectives
To help pupils recognise that:
- change is part of life;
- changes will happen in their lives;
- we have no control over some processes of change.
Bible reference
Isaiah 2.2-4
Background
Our landscape changes – even in the countryside, trees grow and
fall and hedges are pulled up. In towns and cities, buildings are
pulled down and new roads and buildings are put in their place.
Occasionally, disasters happen, with floods, earthquakes, storms
and volcanoes destroying what has been built. People do re-build,
but the place is never quite the same again. Does change always
mean leaving the past behind and moving on to the future? Why don’t
we rebuild exactly as it was before?
Ways of using the pictures
- Talk about changes in (a) school, (b) home, (c) local street
and shops, (d) what is seen on TV news programmes.
- Discuss how pupils think people feel when something they have
made is later destroyed.
- Why do people re-build or re-make? Is it because it has been
destoryed?
- Are changes always for the better?
Key words
- Renovating
- Regeneration
- Devastation
- Natural
- Despondency
- Disaster
- Home
- Rebuilding
Activity
Interview pupils and parent/carers about things that have changed
in their lifetime.
Can they think of changes that have occurred in their local environment,
or in the school, which have radically changed their lives?
In pairs, look at the list of key words. Find the definition of
the words and see if they can be applied to the pictures in the
book.
Learning outcome
Pupils will have:
- developed the ability to identify changes that will happen in
children’s lives;
- shared expectations and outcomes.
Extension work
Write an acrostic poem using some of the key words listed above,
including the words Hope and Expectation.
Web sites
http://www.bbc.co.uk
The BBC’s weather site provides some solid information about the
results of environmental disasters in Britain and how best to prepare
for them.
The devastation created by floods was profoundly moving in the
images that came from Mozambique in 2000. The BBCs reporting can
be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk
http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/understanding/
There are many web sites on environmental disasters of every
possible variety. This site provides an informative approach, with
sections on how earthquakes occur, famous earthquake accounts by
Darwin and Mark Twain and an earthquake quiz to test your knowledge
of earthquakes. A group of students put together a web site comparing
the problems facing people in an earthquake or when a volcano ignites.
Their site can be located at http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/ev/ev_home.htm
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
The National Geographic’s web site provides some stunning images
of the volcano on Mount Etna. Their online magazine also includes
creature features, brainteaser quizzes and creative activities for
children.
© Alan Brown and Alison Seaman, 2002
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