LESSON PLANS - ITVS

041HALF THE SKYEducation for AllLESSON PLAN PROCEDURESPrescreening ActivityTime: 30 minutesYou will need: Student Handout A: Life Map, Student Handout B: Ripple Effect, StudentHandout C: Vietnam In Context, white board/black board, dry-erase markers/chalk, kraftpaper, washable markers, and a wall map of the world with country names (free printablemaps are available here: www.amaps.com/mapstoprint/WORLDDOWNLOAD.htm)Goal: Students will begin to explore the value of education by considering how their livesand their futures would be different if they were denied the opportunity to attend school.They will then examine the global gender divide in education and the possible ripple effectfor families, communities, and nations where girls are disproportionately denied the right togo to school.PART 1• Begin the lesson with a class discussion using the following questions for prompts.Students can be divided into pairs (Think-Pair-Share) and each group can discuss theirresponses to the scenarios among themselves before sharing with the rest of the class.Students can also work individually and do a “quick writing” response before sharing withthe class.--A. Ask the class the following question: Imagine you went home tonight and your familytold you that no one expects you to go to school anymore (Or you don’t have to go toschool anymore). How would that make you feel? Would you choose to continue to cometo school? Encourage students to respond honestly. Discuss student reactions and askthem to go into more depth about the reasons why their responses were either positive ornegative.--B. Now, imagine you are a 14-year-old student in a country where everyone has to pay togo to school. If you were that student, how would you feel if you went home tonight andyour family told you that you couldn’t go to school anymore because it is too expensive?What would you do? Would you be willing to go to work to help pay for school? Discussstudent reactions and compare them to their reactions from the first question.--C. Imagine you are still that 14-year-old student and you went home tonight and your familytold you that your sibling(s) would continue to go to school, but you couldn’t go to schoolanymore. They tell you that it’s too expensive to send all of their children, and they thinkit’s more important for your other sibling(s) to be educated. Besides, they need your helpdoing chores and taking care of the other children in the house. How would you respondto that? What would you do?• Based on the discussion, have the class work in pairs and consider what impact scenarioC would have on the life of their hypothetical 14 year-old student. Using Student HandoutA: Life Map briefly brainstorm some possible consequences that a student might face as aresult of being denied access to an education.• Ask groups to discuss their responses with their partner(s) then share their results withthe class.