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The Global Community

Lesson Plan

1. Starter - Cooperation - Duration 5 mins

 

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Learning Objectives

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  • Students consider local individuals or organisations responsible for various community initiatives and the co-operation that must take place between parties.
  • Students identify the minimum requirements for effective cooperation to take place.
  • The nature and requirements of effective cooperation.
  • None required

Teacher Notes: 1. Starter - CooperationTeacher Notes: 1. Starter - Cooperation

2. The UK's place in the world - Duration 10 mins

 

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Learning Objectives

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  • Global perspectives and interdependencies are introduced. Students are invited to reflect upon the disparity of wealth between nations or upon the importance of developing countries to industrialised nations.
  • Students work in pairs to consider the impact of the collapse of any of the strands of interdependency (e.g. economic, diplomatic). Completing the table on Student Worksheet 1, students identify the impact of any collapse, and any measures that might be taken to prevent this collapse.
  • World perspectives.
  • Global interdependencies.
  • The need for cooperation and agreed objectives.
  • Slides
  • Student Worksheet 1

Teacher Notes: 2. The UK's place in the worldTeacher Notes: 2. The UK's place in the world

3. International organisations - Duration 10 mins

 

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Learning Objectives

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  • A selection of the large number of international organisations that support and control these interdependencies are introduced, including the International Monetary Foundation (IMF), G-8, G-20, United Nations (UN), North Atlantic Treaty of Organisations (NATO) and The Commonwealth.
  • Awareness of International organisations and their respective roles.
  • Awareness that some organisations drive policy and others may physically intervene.
  • Slides

Teacher Notes: 3. International organisationsTeacher Notes: 3. International organisations

4. Examples of international cooperation - Duration 10 mins

 

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Learning Objectives

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  • Slides featuring members of the UK Armed Forces working in various global roles help students to understand the breadth of engagement, the nature of the required co-ordination between countries and the commitments undertaken by involved countries.
  • The role of the MOD and UK Government in international cooperation.
  • Examples of international cooperation and intervention
  • Slides

Teacher Notes: 4. Examples of international cooperationTeacher Notes: 4. Examples of international cooperation

5. Fact finding - Duration 15 mins

 

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Learning Objectives

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  • The videos feature further work undertaken by the MOD and UK Armed Forces in an international capacity: EU anti-piracy missions off the coast of Somalia and EU Rapid Reaction Force peacekeeping force sent to Darfur, Sudan.
  • Student Worksheet 2 provides further detail on each of these MOD operations and invites students to answer a series of questions on the purpose, MOD investment (time and cost) and outcome of each.
  • Detailed examples of international cooperation.
  • Demonstration that international intervention can sometimes serve a dual purpose e.g. humanitarian aid and regional stability.
  • Video: Military aid in Sudan
  • Video: Anti-piracy work
  • Student Worksheet 2

Teacher Notes: 5. Fact findingTeacher Notes: 5. Fact finding

6. Plenary - Press conference - Duration 10 mins

 

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Learning Objectives

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  • In the final Episode, students role-play members of the world's press, in attendance at two press conferences hosted by the UN and EU respectively. At each one, selected students act as members of the international organisations responsible for the intervention, with other students representing the majority of citizens from those countries, quizzing the motives of individual participating countries, their actions and any outcomes.
  • Revision and consolidation.
  • None required

Teacher Notes: 6. Plenary - Press conferenceTeacher Notes: 6. Plenary - Press conference

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