Activity for identifying perspectives:
Learning Objective:
The objective is to gage the students’ level of understanding of identifying perspectives
along with whether their reasoning aligns with their choice and the level of their
justifications. Further, some students may classify certain issues under two
perspectives giving valid reasoning. These would be learners with a higher level of
understanding and/or exposure. This assessment will also help understand how
comfortable learners are, while sharing their ideas within their individual groups and
then presenting them in front of the class.
Activity: Identifying Perspectives
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1. Make chits and put them in a bowl (number of chits should equal number of
students).
2. Each chit should briefly outline an issue that is prevalent either on the personal,
local, regional, national or global scale/level.
3. Examples of issues:
Current events between India and Pakistan regarding the Pulwama terrorist attack
Climate change
Asiatic Lion: an endemic species to India is endangered
China’s One Child Policy to curb population
Nirbhaya’s rape case, India
Youth violence in Chicago, USA
Freshwater scarcity
Brexit
4. Students will be divided into groups of 3. Each group is asked to pick a chit,
discuss for 15 minutes and write down whether they think the issue is personal,
local, national, regional or global. They are further asked to justify their
classification.
5. Each team presents why they feel that particular issue is at particular level.
Students from other teams could give their views on all the issues being
discussed.