Lesson Plan - Activity Ideas - Justice For Year 6

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Lesson Plan/Activity Ideas
Theme – Justice
Lesson Objectives - To understand what Justice means, to help children
understand the importance and need for Justice. For children to learn
examples of injustice and justice. For Children to be given the
opportunity to engage in issues of global justice.
Key focuses – Civil Right influences. The life of Jesus. The Refugee
Crisis. War and Famine. The work of feed the hungry.
Age – Primary Year 6 although a lot of this content can be adapted for
anyone in Key Stage 2
Introduction to theme
Game – Build a Tower
2 volunteers, one is given paper, scissors, roll of sellotape, the other volunteer is given a
stack of duplo bricks.
They are tasked to build a strong tower in a 2/3 minute time frame. Half way through its
likely that the person with the paper resources is struggling more so you could pull out
another volunteer to help them.
After the time is up you show both attempts to the class. The point of this game is to
illustrate that the game wasn't really fair. The contestants weren't treated the same and
weren't treated fairly and the duplo contestant was at an advantage even with the extra
helper for the paper tower. This is how you can introduced the theme of Justice, that often
justice is linked to fairness and whether people are treated the same.
Props – Duplo, paper, scissors, sellotape
Discussion - What is Justice?
At the front of the class on a piece of large flip chart paper write, Justice is …....
Then give each child a post it and get the children to write one word or a few words at
most on what justice means to them, get the children to come and stick it up on the paper.
Use this as a basis for discussion on what justice can mean with the class highlighting
themes they have written.
Then ask the children ;
Why is Justice important in our world today? What would happen if we didn't hold to values
of Justice?
Props – flip chart paper, post it notes, pens
Object Lesson – Band Aids
Pick 10 volunteers to come out and pick a slip of paper you have, they are to open it up.
They will have been given an injury on their paper it may read, for example a split head, a

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