Junk Food ScienceRole Play KS3/4 Lesson

CPD Slides

Outcomes

• Be aware of the Junk Food Science Project videos and associated curriculum and CPD resources

• Be aware of the Junk Food Science Role Play KS 3 and 4 Lesson videos and associated curriculum resources

• Planned how you will use the Role Play resources with your class

Project Team

• Teachers TV

• Centre for Science Education, Sheffield Hallam University

• Illumina

Project Aims

To support the teaching and learning of

Food and Healthy Eating through the use of

innovative contexts, curriculum and CPD

videos and resources

Resources

• Student Classroom Videos

• Teachers’ Notes

• Classroom PowerPoints

• Classroom paper-based resources

• CPD videos

• CPD PowerPoints

Role Play KS3 and 4 lesson resources

• ‘News Report’ - www.teachers.tv/videos/news-report• Role Play KS3 and 4 Lesson Teacher Notes – download these at

www.teachers.tv/junk-food-science• Presentation for use in class – ‘Role Play KS3 and 4 Lesson

Sample Slides’ – download this at www.teachers.tv/junk-food-science

• CPD Video – ‘Teaching the KS3/4 Role Play Lesson’ - www.teachers.tv/videos/teaching-the-ks3-4-role-play-lesson

Download these resources from the Teachers TV

website to use in this session

Benefits of using role play• it explores view points• is highly appropriate for dealing with

controversial issues• the view of the student role is studied and not

the actual student• students learn to control feelings and

emotions• learning is both very active and interactive• promotes group learning and cooperation• relates to real issues• highly motivating• develops speaking and listening• helps focus on problems and their

solutions

Role play process

• Any successful role play follows the following five phase process• Preparation• Briefing (getting into role)• Action• Debriefing (in role)• Follow-up (out of role)

Preparation• consider the role play objectives• decide on the type of role play• consider what stimulus you will use, e.g. video, audio tape,

magazine, newspaper, quote, letter, case study, questionnaire, script from play

• decide whether you need a short, warm-up activity• identify and clarify the issues involved, raise awareness and

consider different perspectives• supply students with necessary knowledge and understanding

- try using small group discussion or active reading and writing for this

• use warm-up activities to establish views and knowledge, e.g. value continuum, or statements game

• introduce the role play gradually, perhaps using questions such as, ‘can you give me an example of …?’or ‘What would the person do or say?’

• Prepare the classroom• allocate roles

Briefing• get students to write or rewrite their role briefs• involve all the students• allow adequate time• if role cards/briefs are given out, students build up

a better role picture if they:• underline views held by the character• rewrite brief in the first person• devise questions on the back of the role card to

help develop the character• ‘work-up’ characters in pairs• each person interviews the other• a list is made of how characters might

feel or react in the situation

Action• students should be fully briefed and in role• continuity is ensured only if there is thorough

advance preparation• students need to be fully ‘in-role’• use a suitable room and surroundings• create a sense of occasion, particularly if using a

grand scenario, or public inquiry approach• generate an atmosphere of reality - use props but

keep them to a minimum, e.g. name tags, telephone, tables, posters

• initiate the action and step back• leave responsibility with the students• if you need to step in again, try to do

so in-role

Debrief• debriefing should be done while the students

are still in-role (this way only the character or role is under attack, and not the student)

• debrief in small groups (pairs, fours) particularly when exploring personal feelings in anticipation of a whole group discussion

• summarise what has been learned from the role play as you go

• orchestrate the discussion rather than saying too much yourself

• establish the facts and any decisions which have been reached

Follow-up• Once students have been debriefed, and are out

of role, get answers to the following questions:• what do students think happened?• how do they feel about their role and other peoples’

roles?• what decisions were taken and what do they think

about these?• what do students think they were trying to achieve?• had they changed their views?

• Also follow-up with regard the issue in an active and balanced way probably through active writing to consolidate the learning

Starter

• Watch the ‘News Report’ - www.teachers.tv/videos/news-report video

• What were the arguments for and against the ban

CPD videoRead the Teacher’s Notes, ‘Role Play KS3 and 4 Lesson Sample Slides’ PowerPoint and then Watch the CPD video (www.teachers.tv/videos/teaching-the-ks3-4-role-play-

lesson ) Discuss the following questions

• How did the teacher prepare the students for the role play?• What did the students do to get into role during the briefing phase?• What did the students do during the action?• How did the teacher debrief the role play?• What did the students do to follow-up the • role play?• What aspects of the curriculum are • covered by the lesson?

Plan how you will carry out this lesson with your students

Additional Activities and Resources

• There are range of additional ideas provided in the Teacher’s Notes to help you develop a cross-curricular topic on Healthy Eating, includingExtension work,Additional activitiesScience upd8 activitiesLinks to other Teachers TV videos

• How would you use these additional ideas?