Which jobs are for women or men?
Explore which characteristics and skills pupils define as typically feminine or typically masculine. What do pupils think are prerequisites for different jobs and do they relate to gender characteristics or skills?
Which Toys Are for Girls and Which Are for Boys?
To what extent pupils hold stereotypical ideas about gender and how they relate that to behaviour and activities for children.
What do you think about the hijab?
Explore the attitudes of pupils towards Muslim women who wear hijab or niqab and towards Islam locally and globally.
How British is Britain?
What pupils understand by the term “British” in relation to culture and identity. Substitute the name of whichever country your pupils live and work in.
What do these children need?
What needs do pupils attribute to children in different parts of world, and to what extent do stereotypes about different countries and people affect their choices?
What does home mean?
Explore pupils’ attitudes to the idea of home and discover what criteria they use to judge what is important. To what extent do they consider everyone’s right to a home, the impact on the environment and the need for community and security?
Which would make the best home?
Explore pupils’ attitudes to the idea of home and discover what criteria they use to judge what is important. To what extent do they consider everyone’s right to a home, the impact on the environment and the need for community and security?
Human Rights for Everyone?
Explore pupils’ attitudes towards the universality of human rights. To what extent do pupils think that human rights are universal and inherent, or do pupils think that should be earned?
Whose Responsibility are Human Rights?
Whether pupils are aware of Human Rights and how systems to protect them work around the world. To what extent pupils are willing to take advantage of opportunities to take action for social justice in relation to Human Rights.
Where do the world’s refugees go?
Pupils’ knowledge and understanding about the inequalities in the global distribution of population, wealth and refugees, and their attitudes to these inequalities. Explore awareness of bias in the media and pupils’ critical thinking skills.