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This is a series of lessons (10) that relates to setting up a civilisation on an Island. It is designed to be cross curricular for a new Year 7 class, so encompasses RE, PSHE, Maths, English, Computing, DT and Geography skills.

The pupils start by creating their own Island, they do this by finding reference images, labelling the features of their Island and resourcing this themselves. They then must advertise their Island - why should people live on it? They then explore the financial needs of their island and link this to the morality of equal pay for all and how tax/employment works. They then spend a series of lessons earning money on their island. They have buy nets of products, make them to a specific time frame/criteria and then sell them to the teacher to earn money. They then must decide how they spend it and learn about budgeting money. They then move onto consider the issues of prejudice and discrimination through a lifeboat task, where they have to save 5 people from a sinking ship, whilst leaving the other 5. These 5 people then become inhabitants on their island. They move onto creating laws and punishments and consider the morality and ethics of these, including the death penalty. It culminates in them deciding if they want religion on their island and they research a faith to ‘sell it’ to the inhabitants. ALL of the lessons are fully resourced, with task sheets embedded into each PPT that can be printed on A3 paper. Pupils then presented this project to parents at its conclusion as part of a Year 7 showcase with each of their task sheets to show off their completed project.