Sec values - Stewardship & Responsibility 6: Kerri

Teacher notes

**Teach lesson 5 from this unit first.** In this session, we revisit the storyworld Searching for Silence featuring Kerri, a marine scientist who studies ocean soundscapes and helps reduce noise pollution to protect marine life. This is the sixth and final 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. **Summary of Storyworld**: Kerri is a marine scientist who listens to the ocean using underwater microphones to study how noise pollution affects sea life. She scuba dives off Colombia’s coast and collects sound data over weeks to understand how animals like humpback whales use sound, and how human-made noises disrupt them. Through her work in bioacoustics, Kerri is helping develop quieter technology and inspiring others to protect the natural soundscape of the sea. **National Curriculum Links:** Citizenship (KS3) Reflecting on the responsibilities of citizens in relation to local, national and global issues. Citizenship (KS4) Evaluating different forms of civic responsibility and participation. PSHE (KS3) L2:To review personal strengths, values and qualities and how to develop them. L9: The benefits of setting goals and being open to opportunities in life. PSHE (KS4) L2: To evaluate personal strengths, values and areas for development to inform future goals. L29: To recognise shared responsibility to contribute positively to society and challenge harmful viewpoints. English / Oracy Reflective discussion; expressing considered viewpoints.