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How sound works (KS2)
We'll meet Kerri in Colombia and explore the world of sound.
View lesson plan →Lyfta Time #81: Kerri in Colombia
Meet Kerri, listening to marine life on the Pacific coast of Colombia.
View lesson plan →L12 Pri: Course reflections & final survey
Revisit survey questions from session 1 and reflect on your learning in this course.
View lesson plan →L12 Sec: Course reflections & final survey
Compare your learning journey from start to finish and reflect on how your thinking, questions, and habits have shifted.
View lesson plan →L1 Pri: Course introduction & survey
First of two impact benchmark surveys to explore attitudinal and thinking shifts within the course.
View lesson plan →L7 Sec: AI and echo chambers
Explore how algorithms can trap us in echo chambers and how to stretch beyond our digital comfort zones to hear new perspectives.
View lesson plan →Sound under the sea (Accessible)
Visit Colombia and learn about sound under the sea.
View lesson plan →L11 Sec: Humanity and truth
Lesson 11 from the Secondary Critical Digital and Media Literacy course. Reconnecting with the human heart of digital life: empathy, kindness, and the power of everyday connection.
View lesson plan →L1 Sec: Course introduction & survey
First of two impact benchmark surveys to explore attitudinal and thinking shifts within the course.
View lesson plan →Embracing identity Pt.2
Revisit Naissa and his mother Daniela, learning to embrace new identities. Explore difficult conversations through art.
View lesson plan →L6 Sec: Deepfakes, misinformation & disinformation
Learn how deepfakes and manipulated content spread online, and develop strategies to spot what’s real, and what’s designed to deceive.
View lesson plan →L5 Sec: AI: algorithms, bias and stereotypes
Uncover how algorithms shape our feeds, the risks of bias in AI, and why questioning stereotypes in digital systems matters.
View lesson plan →L10 Sec: Responsibility & belonging
Think deeply about how our digital actions affect others, and what it means to show up with care and responsibility online.
View lesson plan →L8 Sec: Social media & image manipulation
Explore the ways visuals can be manipulated.
View lesson plan →L9 Sec: Representation & the media
Consider who gets shown in the media and music industry, how they’re portrayed, and why fair and full representation matters for everyone.
View lesson plan →L3 Pri: Documentary literacy & critical thinking
Dig deeper into how filmmaking styles impact our connection to content and start asking questions like a media detective.
View lesson plan →L4 Sec: Developing media literacy
Discover how media influences our perceptions and continue building your own toolkit to reflect, question, and think critically.
View lesson plan →L11 Pri: Digital kindness and belonging
Think about how our words and actions online can affect others, and how to help everyone feel they belong.
View lesson plan →L4 Pri: Social media and truth
Learn how online videos are made, explore why people share them, and start thinking about how to tell if something is true.
View lesson plan →L3 Sec: Documentary literacy & critical thinking
Look beneath the surface of documentaries, questioning how filmmaking styles impact connection.
View lesson plan →L2 Sec: Introduction to digital & media literacy
Explore how media and digital spaces shape the way we see the world, ourselves, and each other, and why asking better questions matters.
View lesson plan →L2 Pri: Digital & media literacy introduction
Explore how hearing someone’s story can shift our perspective, and why the stories we hear can only show part of a bigger picture.
View lesson plan →L9 Pri: Deepfakes and misinformation
Uncover how fake videos and images are made and how to think twice before believing or sharing them.
View lesson plan →L7 Pri: An introduction to AI
Meet Ilya, a computer scientist working in AI. Learn what artificial intelligence is, where it came from, and how it could shape our future.
View lesson plan →L8 Pri: Exploring AI and staying safe online
Recap what AI is and focus on how to stay safe, kind, and responsible when spending time online, from sharing content to spotting risks.
View lesson plan →Remembering the Holocaust Pt.1
Meet 103-year-old Ella in South Africa, a Holocaust survivor and beacon of hope.
View lesson plan →Explore Cape Town
Discover the physical and human geography of Cape Town.
View lesson plan →Documentary literacy & critical thinking (Primary)
Student introduction to documentary literacy and critical thinking more generally.
View lesson plan →L6 Pri: Representation & the media
Consider how seeing people like us in music, media, and stories helps us feel we belong.
View lesson plan →L5 Pri: Stereotypes and belonging
Explore what stereotypes are, how they can make people feel excluded, and how we can challenge them together.
View lesson plan →Documentary literacy & critical thinking (Secondary)
Student introduction to documentary literacy and critical thinking more generally.
View lesson plan →L10 Pri: Critical visual literacy
Discover how images can be edited or changed, and learn to ask questions before trusting or sharing pictures we see online.
View lesson plan →Remembering the Holocaust Pt.2
Revisit Ella in Cape Town and learn how and why we remember the Holocaust.
View lesson plan →Assembly: Saving a species
Discover the rare creatures that live on Mohit's land, and how he is trying to protect them.
View lesson plan →Food and fairtrade
Meet Mohit in India and discover the important and familiar foods grown in this region of northeast India.
View lesson plan →Saving hoolock gibbons
Meet Mohit in India and discover how and why he protects the hoolock gibbons on his land.
View lesson plan →Lyfta Time #80: Mohit in India
Meet Mohit in Assam, India, saving rare hoolock gibbons.
View lesson plan →Feeling safe: The Equality Act (2010)
Meet Naissa in the UK and discover the UK law that protects individuals like him.
View lesson plan →Embracing identity Pt.1
Meet Naissa and his mother Daniela, learning to embrace new identities.
View lesson plan →Lyfta debate: children's voice in family decisions
Meet Jasmin as she moves country. Engage in a debate about how much input children should have in major family decisions.
View lesson plan →Lyfta debate: should pet ownership be restricted?
Meet Erkan in Ankara, Türkiye who volunteers tirelessly to care for hundreds of stray dogs in his city. We will consider arguments for and against pet ownership and consider whether pet ownership should only be for those who properly care for animals.
View lesson plan →My name, my identity (KS3)
Visit Indonesia and meet Chen Fung Yin. Explore the theme of names and identity.
View lesson plan →My name, my identity (KS2)
Visit Indonesia and meet Chen Fung Yin. Explore the theme of names and identity.
View lesson plan →My name, my identity (KS1)
Visit Indonesia and meet Chen Fung Yin. Explore the theme of names and identity.
View lesson plan →Secondary Lyfta Time #08: Freddy in Brazil
Secondary Lyfta Time (or assembly) with KS3 PSHE links - Learning in the Wider World, and Relationships and RSHE
View lesson plan →Secondary Lyfta Time #07: Cansu in Belgium
Secondary Lyfta Time with KS3 PSHE Links - Learning in the Wider World, Health and Wellbeing, and Relationships. Can be done as short class lesson (with opportunities for further discussion and depth) or an assembly.
View lesson plan →Secondary Lyfta Time #06: Anna in Norway
Secondary Lyfta Time with KS3 PSHE links - Health and Wellbeing and Relationships.
View lesson plan →Secondary Lyfta Time #05: Flora in Shipetiari
Secondary Lyfta time linked to KS3 PSHE Living in the Wider World (L11, L23). Can also be an assembly.
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