Life without taps - Cafod

Life without Taps – A simulation game for KS2 and KS3 22
3. So what’s for the best
(15-20 mins)
Subjects: Geography, Citizenship, RE
You will need: Copies of the ‘Diamond 9’
ranking exercise (see p.29), cut out.
Aim: To help students to work cooperatively
and critically towards finding effective solutions
to a global issue.
The boxes on p.29 may include some of the
solutions students have already mentioned,
but also some new ideas. They now have the
chance to think about what solutions would be
the most effective.
Students place the nine cards in a diamond
shape (or similar) to rank these, placing what
they think would be most effective at the top and
least effective at the bottom, with other actions
placed somewhere between the two. If any group
chooses an ineffective solution eg. sending taps,
challenge this gently through questioning.
By asking a slightly different question, the
diamond may change shape and order.
For example: which are the most realistic
forms of action Which actions will have the
most long term effect What would be the
cheapest solution Which do you think the
people in Zimbabwe living without clean water
would prefer
Give out copies of the Diamond 9, cut up, to
small groups. Ask students to consider the nine
possible actions eg. building reservoirs, sinking
boreholes. If they wish, they can replace one
idea with an idea of their own in the ‘Another
idea’ space.
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