How can we change the world?
AUTUMN 2022
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AoLE Focus: Humanities
The Fart That Changed the World by Stephen Mangan
The Fart That Changed the World by Stephen Mangan
We started the topic by reading the first couple of pages of the book. Page 2 ends with "a fart that changed the world" which led to a discussion of what the pupils thought they could do to change the world in Pupil Voice. Their choices and ideas were displayed in the classroom.
How Can We Change The World?.pptxPupil Voice led the topic, as children generated questions and ideas for activities, which were prioritised for further research and understanding.
As we covered their ideas for lesson activities through the topic, we highlighted them in yellow.
Any additional or alternative activities were added on in green.
“How can we change the world?”
The stimulus for our topic came from the children’s novel “The fart that changed the world” by Stephen Mangan. We started Year 5 by reading the first chapter of this book and discussing it and then the children themselves, planned our topic by suggesting what they wanted to find out.
The first chapter of the book is about a King called King Fabian, as the blurb for the book explains, “It's the most important day of the year for King Fabian as he is hosting all the neighbouring rulers. Everything simply must go perfectly. King Fabian wakes up, stretches, and farts. His wife's fury is so huge that he panics and blames the butler, who is carted off to the dungeons. Leaving behind a big problem: Fabian isn't really the brains behind the crown: it is the butler... how will dithery Fabian manage to pull off this high-pressure event alone? His small and smelly fart looks like it will kick off a crisis...”
The pupils had many great ideas for what direction our topic should take. We followed the children’s lead for what areas they wanted to learn about and suggestions included:
*Take responsibility for your actions
*Looking at Children’s Right and Responsibilities
*Consequences of our actions / thinking before we speak
*Activities to show how our actions affect other people
*Looking at Royalty – Kings… how they work with our government
*Manners – excuse yourself when you let it go free
*Massive changes can happen from small events – Aberfan disaster..
*What is a fart? Science
*How decisions made can change the world…
*What would you change in the world?
*Conscience scenarios - what would you do? What should King Fabian have done?
All these ideas came from the first chapter of the class novel!
The pupils suggested some titles for our topic, which included:
What would you do?
How can we change the world?
Is it better out than in?
We voted and went for the title – How can we change the world?
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