Lesson 2:Conscience Alley &Freeze Frame

PurposeTo explore attitudes towardsforestry.

Equipment needed:� Resource sheets 2 and 3 (overleaf)� Internet access to research links� Image of forestry worker: overleaf &

www.fsc-uk.org/forestryworker

What to do:1. Display the image of the forestry worker and briefly

ask the pupils to:� Describe what they can see.� Explain what they think is happening.� Suggest where in the world this might be taking

place.

2. Conscience Alley - Explain that they’re going toexplore their feelings about this image using role playand an activity called a ‘conscience alley’. Ask thepupils to imagine that the forestry worker is walkingthrough the forest on his/her way to work in the earlymorning. Pupils need to stand in two lines facing eachother with a space down the middle. One personplays the role of the forestry worker and walks slowlybetween the two lines of pupils. The pupils in the linestake the role of the forestry worker’s conscience andspeak their mind as the worker comes alongsidethem. The ‘forestry worker’ should pause to allow theperson to make their point but should not respond inany other way.

When the forestry worker reaches the end of the line they might be asked to explain how they’ve been affected by listening to ‘their conscience’. The process might be repeated to allow pupils to gather their thoughts and/or make a contribution.

3. Brainstorm – List words that describe the pupils’feelings about:� Forestry.� The forestry worker.

What makes us feel like this? Are these feelings based on things that we know? What sorts of facts have influenced the way you feel when you see this image? Is that a fact or an opinion?

4. Research - Explain that the pupils are going to dosome research which will help them to explore theirfeelings and opinions. Pupils should work in pairs orsmall groups. Each group should be given a copy ofone of the resource sheets 2 or 3. Explain that theywill be asked to present their thoughts about forestryand forestry workers in the next activity.

Pupils should make notes about their thoughts and findings.

5. Freeze Frame - The pupils should stand in a circle -members of the same group can stand alongside oneanother. One group will be asked to mime a scenesuggested by the forestry worker in the photo. Theaction begins; the teacher freezes the scene at anappropriate time and invites one of the groups topresent their ideas about forestry. The group who’vepresented their ideas then takes the role of theforestry workers; the action is frozen and anothergroup are invited to present their ideas.

6. Plenary - Invite pupils to discuss and vote on thefollowing statement:� Forestry plays an important role in helping to protect

the environment.

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ResourceSheets 2and 3Accompaniments toKS 2 lesson plans2 and 3.

� An area of ancient forest thesize of a football pitch isdestroyed every 2 seconds.

� Forests (especially tropical rainforests) are the world’s richest ecosystems – home to 90% of the world’s land- based plant and animal species.� Forest loss threatens many

species with extinction - Orangutans may disappear within the next 20 years due to logging and turning forests into palm oil and rice plantations.� Forests prevent soil erosion.� Forests help to prevent

climate change – trees andplants remove carbon fromthe atmosphere.

� 10% of the world’s forestshave disappeared in the last25 years, mainly due tohuman activities.

� Deforestation feeds climatechange – CO2 is produced byfires used to clear forests,trees no longer act as carbonsinks and forest soils oftenrelease CO2 as they dry-out.

� About 33% of the world’sforests are likely to bedamaged by climate change.

� More than 20 percent of theworld oxygen is produced inthe Amazon rainforest.

� Every year an area half thesize of the UK is cleared ofnatural forests.

� Forests are being removed ata rate 10 times higher thanany possible level ofregrowth.

� Only 10% of all forests areprotected areas.

� Nearly half of the world’sspecies of plants, animals andmicroorganisms will bedestroyed or severelythreatened over the nextquarter century due torainforest deforestation.

� Rainforests once covered14% of the earth’s landsurface – this has fallen to6%.

� Experts estimate that the lastremaining rainforests could bedestroyed in less than 40years.

� About 16% of the wooddelivered to building sites isnever used and ends up inland fill sites as waste scraps.

� 25% of our medicines havebeen developed fromrainforest ingredients. Lessthan 1% of rainforest treesand plants have been testedby scientists to see if they canbe used to develop othermedicines.

� At least 80% of the foods weeat come from plants thatoriginated in the tropicalrainforest e.g. oranges,lemons, bananas, tomatoes,corn, potatoes, rice,chocolate, sugar cane andnuts.

� Forests are often cleared tocreate farmland. Forest soilsare often poor and require lotsof chemicals to grow crops.

� Timber exporting countrieslike Indonesia, Brazil, Kenyaand Cameroon lose anestimated €10-15 billionthrough illegal logging eachyear.

� We all use things that aremade from wood.

� Wood is a renewableresource.

� If people can’t make moneyfrom the forests, by selling thewood, they may decide tochop all the trees down to usethe land to grow crops orraise cattle.

� Forestry provides paid workfor lots of people.

� Countries in Africa, Asia andSouth America sell timber tocountries like USA, Japan,China, UK and Germany.

� Global wood consumption isprojected to increase 50percent by the year 2050.

� Forests support up to 1.6billion of the poorest people inthe world – providing thingslike food, jobs, medicines, fueland materials used to makehomes and household goods.

� Forestry can be sustainable –when a tree is cut down,another can be replanted orallowed to grow naturally.

� Sustainable forestry canprovide the landowner withmore income than they’d get ifthey cleared the forest andused the land for farming.

� 60 million indigenous peopleand countless species ofplants and animals arecompletely dependent onforests for their lives.

� Organisations like WWF,Greenpeace and theWoodland Trust believe thatit’s OK to cut down trees tomake things like furniture,

building materials and paper –as long as it’s properlymanaged.

� Timber is the only majorbuilding material that isrenewable.

� Forests provide a hugesustainable source ofenvironmentally friendly rawmaterial - for a wide variety ofproducts!

� Timber does not require lots ofenergy when it is beingprocessed.

� It takes 8 times more kilowatthours of energy tomanufacture a PVC-U windowcompared to a timber window.

� Manufacturing a steel girderrequires 4,000 times moreenergy than its timberequivalent.

� Concrete creates 5 times asmuch solid waste as timber.

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WWF for the use of theirresources.

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