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Lessons based on stimulating videos, intriguing photos and challenging real-life situations, ideal for citizenship, PSHE and beyond.

Arbeit Macht Frei gate

Holocaust Memorial Day

The death camps of Nazi Germany were the site of unimaginable human suffering. Explore the importance of learning from the horrors of the past.

The bus stop in Eltham where teenager Stephen Lawrence was attacked in April 1993

Stephen Lawrence

Explore practical questions about the barriers to helping with activities based on what actually happened the night Stephen Lawrence died.

Base jumpers leap from a alpine cliff in the Lauterbrunnen valley in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

Base jumping

Some people avoid risk whenever they can. Others seek risk for the fun of it. Explore different points of view and choices by focusing on an extreme sport.

Split-screen still of a girl drinking

Alcohol & first aid

High on the list of social skills worth learning is that of staying alive. Use this short video trigger and activities to build young people's capacity to cope with alcohol.

Detail of an embroidery

WWII embroidery

Handcrafts create useful and decorative products. Can they also maintain mental health? Explore the surprising powers of embroidery with someone who says it got him through prisoner of war camp.

A shop and police car burn as riot police try to contain a large group of people on a main road in Tottenham, north London on August 6, 2011

UK unrest

This lesson plan contains three imaginative options for exploring the August disorder.

CCTV footage of shopping centre

Texting while walking

Laughing at someone else's misfortune is highly popular YouTube entertainment. Explore a much-viewed example with this three-phase activity.

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