CIVICS AND CITIZENSHIP

How Does Diversity Impact a Society?

 THIS LESSON…

• By the end, we will understand that…

• Diversity in society influences our government and our laws within society

• Success looks like…

• Contributing to the lesson discussions
• Completing your independent work
 BUT TODAY WILL LOOK VERY
DIFFERENT TO OUR USUAL LESSONS…
As you woke up this morning, you heard the sound of a waterfall,
realising this isn’t a normal noise for you to be hearing, your eyes fly
open and you look around at your surroundings, you notice you are no
longer at home, but you have been transported to a new location…
This is the landscape
you have woken up in…
 Church

Out Post

Market
Now we have settled in and we go about our lives until…
 CHALLENGE NUMBER ONE

Its time to eat, we don’t have enough supplies to make lots of different
meals, so we need to decide on one meal to eat. What will it be?
Now that we have eaten, we all turn in for the night. The next morning
comes and…
 CHALLENGE NUMBER TWO

You notice some people from a nearby village have come over to our
village. It seems the smell of last nights food attract them. They would
like to move into our village, but we don’t have enough housing. What
do we do?
The new people have moved into the new houses we built for them but…
The new people have not moved into out village but…
 CHALLENGE NUMBER THREE

These new people are starting to cause trouble. Our village has a store of
wheat which we use to trade with nearby villages for other food items.
The new people have been stealing from this supply. What do we do?
 CHALLENGE NUMBER THREE

The people who wanted to move in are starting to cause trouble. Our
village has a store of wheat which we use to trade with nearby villages
for other food items. This group of people have been stealing from this
supply. What do we do?
 CHALLENGE NUMBER FOUR

We try and catch these people in the act and we are successful. However,
once they are arrested, they argue “there's no rule about that”.
These people are right, we don’t have a rule that says that what they did
was wrong. What do we do?
 CHALLENGE NUMBER FIVE

Our society has now created a law that says that theft is illegal, how do
we carry out justice?
 CHALLENGE NUMBER FIVE

Our society has not created a law that says that theft is illegal, what do
we do now?
TIME TO REFLECT…
WHERE DID WE SEE DIVERSITY IN
THIS LESSON?
HOW DID DIVERSITY INFLUENCE OUR
RESPONSES?
WHAT DID WE DO TO GOVERN OUR
DIVERSITY?
WHAT DOES DIVERSITY ADD TO OUR
SOCIETY?
 IS DIVERSITY IMPORTANT…

YE
S NO
 INDEPENDENT WORK

• How does diversity impact your society?