Which tomatoes would you buy?
What criteria shape pupils’ decisions about the products they buy? To what extent do ethical or environmental implications influence their behaviour as consumers?
To Build or Not to Build?
Explore pupils’ attitudes to environmental and social issues around their local area, and to what extent they can think critically and broadly about multiple viewpoints..
What questions can you ask?
Find out what pupils know and think about water security, climate change and the importance of water conservation, and how that knowledge impacts on their own behaviour.
How much water can you save?
Assess pupils’ knowledge and understanding about water conservation, the connections between water conserving actions and environmental issues around the world, and pupils’ attitudes towards what’s realistic in terms of changes in behaviour.
Which energy for the future?
What pupils know and think about the impacts of energy production and consumption. Explore how pupils make choices about their own futures, the future of others and that of the planet.
What’s the best way to protect the environment?
What pupils think and know about the impact of our choices on the environment, the connections between local environmental actions and global impacts, and their own willingness to take action for the environment.
Fair or Unfair?
What pupils understand by the term ‘fair’ and how developed their understanding of justice is. Do they think injustice is inevitable?
What’s the best way to stop a conflict?
What pupils think about a range of ways in which they could resolve a conflict.
Where is this happening?
The extent of bias in pupils’ attitudes towards the Minority and Majority Worlds; the role of the media in reinforcing this bias.
What do we think about weapons?
What pupils think about armaments. ‘What do we think about weapons in schools?’ can be used first, to gauge pupils’ attitudes to the issue of weapons being brought into school. ‘What do we think about nuclear weapons?’ can be used independently or as a follow-up to measure pupils’ attitudes following a topic or course exploring armaments and/or the arms trade.