Teacher's Guidance Notes

Weeks 5-6 Preparing and making a presentation

While it is for each school to decide on their own form of presentation, below are some suggestions. Year groups could be split into classes taking a different country each, or looking at a specific Goal across the 5 countries or by having a class focus e.g a newspaper and sharing out the jobs.

• Prepare a powerpoint using visual images and commentary mixed with some key statistics presented in simple tables and graphs

• Write a class newspaper on the MDGs in a selected country/countries with pairs/small groups of students producing the different parts from relevant sections of the website:
  
  - Title, price, headlines, editorial
  - Country features
  - Photos/artwork/cartoons
  - Quiz on What are the MDGs?
  - Human interest features
  - Factfiles of country
  - Campaign adverts

• Organise an MDGs campaign in school
  
  - prepare MDG posters
  - make MDG wristbands/friendship bracelets
  - produce leaflets
  - start a petition
  - start a footprints to a Better World trail around school
  - set up a campaign stall at lunchtime/special events
  - bring this all together by presenting a school assembly
  
• Hold a Question time debate
  
  - present briefings on the 5 countries
  - present briefings on the Goals
  - discuss key questions
  - invite MP to attend
  
• Multi-Media/Drama/Art presentation to an audience
  
  Make a video, use clips from DVDs, downloads from linked websites
  
  Perform sketches on the Goals (use “Just Acting” Christian Aid for sketches on Goal 8 issues on debt, trade and Goal 1 poverty)
  
  Re-enact a day in the life of a street child
  
  Visit The Global Gallery for inspiration, to view "Vision 2015: Your Future."
  
• Look at Nick 2015
  
  Nickelodeon has teamed up with the Millennium Campaign to broadcast across the US, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America  30-second original animation shorts highlighting how the MDGs affect the lives of kids worldwide and what they can do to have a voice in their future. Click here

  Wanting inspiration from another school?

  Click here

  They created a website, news broadcast, slideshow, bulletin board, brochure, school newspaper article, posters, facts to post on every lunch tray, and wrote and recorded an original song. The club also organized and MC’d a school-wide presentation

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