Accepting different ideas and view points: What do you do with an idea? - Kobi Yamada

Learning Intention: To have confidence in new ideas

Text: What do you do with an idea?- Kobi Yamada

Success Criteria: I know how ideas form / I know how to grow an idea/ I can talk to people about what I think

Starter: With a partner think of an idea you once had that you acted on that worked. Can you think of an idea you had that didn’t work? What’s the best thing to do with a new idea?

Main: Read “What to do with an idea”. After you have read the story, look at the first few pages; why is the child walking away from the idea and why is it following? When does the child start to change their mind? How can an idea want “food and attention”? what’s happening in this bit of the story? Why was the child afraid of telling others about their idea?  When the others didn’t agree, what made the child persevere? What happens at the end of the story? How are the pictures different? Why are they different? What has happened?

Discussion: Show the class the image of the women pilots from Brunei who flew a plane in to Saudi Arabia (see below and for more info on the story see http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/royal-brunei-airlines-first-all-female-flight-deck-crew-lands-plane-in-saudi-arabia-where-women-are-a6931726.html Discuss in pairs- whose idea was that? What was the idea? What do you think people said when the idea was first raised? What do you think changed to make the idea a reality? What was the impact when the women landed the plane in Saudi Arabia?

Activity: Write a conversation between the three women pilots before they fly the plane to Saudi Arabia. Their names are Captain Sharifah Czarena Surainy Syed Hashim, Senior First Officer Dk Nadiah Pg Khashiem and Senior First Officer Sariana Nordin. Have one of the women come up with the idea, and continue the conversation. Show how even when not everyone agrees at first, an idea can develop through discussion and dialogue..

Plenary: The idea said to the child, “It is good to have the ability to see things differently.” – what does that mean? Can you think of an example today where people see things differently or have different views or opinions? What ideas have changed the world? Are wheels natural, or was a wheel someone’s idea? If you could show people 50 years ago, an ipad, what would they think? Someone had the idea and it grew and grew. 100 years ago in the UK, women were not allowed to vote. How has that idea changed? 60 years ago in the USA black people were not allowed to sit with white people on a bus or drink from the same water fountain. How has that idea changed? Today in some countries around the world people face discrimination for being gay or lesbian. Will that idea change? How?

AFL questions: Today I have learned… / it’s ok to have new ideas because…

For a scheme of work on how to teach the Equality Act see No Outsiders in our school: Teaching the Equality Act in Primary Schools by Andrew Moffat