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Learning activity 8: Growing and changing
CORE CONCEPT WHAT TO DO
Using role play to explore how different age - As If
groups behave enables children to develop - The Show
- Debrief
empathy and an understanding of the needs
and pressures associated with each stage of
development.
SUGGESTED SUCCESS CRITERIA
We will talk about the changes that take place
from birth to old age.
We will understand that there is more than one
point of view.
We will challenge conventions and assumptions.
As If
Call out an age-group category and ask the children to respond as if
they are that age. Change categories and actions at a given signal. For
example, ask the children to move, stand, eat, smile, drink, wave and
cry as if they are a baby, a child, a teenager, an adult or a senior citizen.
At certain points, Freeze Frame the action by asking them to physically
hold their pose in a snapshot representation of that age category.
Approach a few children and ask a relevant question, to which they
must answer as if they are in that age group, for example:
