Class debate

Teacher notes

This lesson is ideally delivered after exploring the rich media articles, films and storyworld series Fish Tales, in particular The Last Trawler and The Fish Champion, when students are familiar with the articles: • The Groundfish Fishery • How fish gets to your plate • How fish is caught You could teach this as a two part lesson with Part 1 being the lesson ‘Wild and farmed fish’. You could divide the class into groups with a pair of students taking roles and preparing together, or a whole class debate with groups representing each of the Fish Tales ‘actors’, listed in the activity. **Lyfta core themes:** Culture and Identity, Natural Environment, Professions and Entrepreneurship, Technology and Engineering. **Lyfta core skills and values**: Active Listening, Collaboration and Teamwork, Communication, Environment and Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Information Retrieval, Perspective-Taking. **SDGs:** 2,9,11,12,13,14. **National Curriculum objectives:** KS2/3 Literacy to participate in formal debates and structured discussions, summarising and/or building on what has been said to draft and write for different purposes to compose and rehearse sentences orally to retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction to explain and discuss understanding of what they have read, including through formal presentations and debates to provide reasoned justifications for their views. KS3 Science (Biology) Interactions and interdependencies: Relationships in an ecosystem: - the interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem, including food webs - how organisms affect, and are affected by, their environment, including the accumulation of toxic materials. Genetics and evolution - changes in the environment may leave individuals within a species, and some entire species, less well adapted to compete successfully and reproduce, which in turn may lead to extinction - the importance of maintaining biodiversity. KS2 Science to recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things to explore examples of human impact (both positive and negative) on environments. KS2 Geography to learn about types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water. KS3 Geography to understand, through the use of detailed place-based exemplars at a variety of scales, the key processes in human geography relating to: economic activity and the use of natural resources to understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and change landscapes, environments and the climate; and how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems.