Sec Values - Stewardship & Responsibility 4: Mohit

Teacher notes

In this lesson, we watch Mohit’s film, deepening understanding of how stewardship can protect the planet’s most vulnerable species. Through the story of the Hoolock Gibbons, pupils see that responsibility and empathy extends to animals, habitats, and future generations. Encouraging pupils to think about the connection between human actions and natural balance, this lesson helps nurture an attitude of global responsibility, stewardship and active hope - the belief that even small changes can make a difference. This is the fourth lesson in the Stewardship and Responsibility unit of the Secondary Year of Values programme: **About this unit:** This unit explores the values of stewardship and responsibility through a carefully sequenced set of human stories from different global contexts. The unit supports students to examine how responsibility can take many forms depending on context, scale, power and perspective. Across the six lessons, students encounter responsibility as global environmental action, moral accountability, community resilience, everyday choice, scientific inquiry and long-term care. The sequence moves from visible, large-scale action towards quieter, less obvious forms of stewardship that rely on evidence, patience and sustained attention. By the end of the unit, students are encouraged to think critically about responsibility not as guilt or blame, but as an ongoing process of noticing, questioning and responding - locally, nationally and globally. **National Curriculum Links:** Citizenship (KS3) The rights and responsibilities of citizens in relation to the environment and other living things. Citizenship (KS4) Ethical considerations and competing interests in environmental decision-making. PSHE (KS3) L4: Compassion towards others and shared responsibility for caring for living things. H6: How to identify and articulate a range of emotions accurately and sensitively. PSHE (KS4) H5: To develop empathy and understanding of how daily actions can affect others’ wellbeing. L18: To evaluate ethical and moral dilemmas, including those involving competing interests. Science / Geography Ecosystems, biodiversity and the impact of human activity on habitats.