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Thinking about quality of life. Learning Objectives. To begin to develop ideas about the meaning of quality of life. To understand that we all have common basic needs. To know that people’s needs are often met in unequal ways. To think about how energy helps to improve quality of life.
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Learning Objectives • To begin to develop ideas about the meaning of quality of life. • To understand that we all have common basic needs. • To know that people’s needs are often met in unequal ways. • To think about how energy helps to improve quality of life.
What does quality of life mean? • What does this mean to you? • What does it mean to others do you think? • Are there some things that we all need? • What do we need… - to be happy? - to be healthy? - just to stay alive?
Quality of life - peopleThink about these statements and whether some are more important than others. You might want to add some of your own • I need friends to talk and play with. • I need relatives to help look after me. • I need a family to love me. • I need teachers to teach me. • I need doctors to look after me.
Quality of life: placesThink about these statements and whether some are more important than others. You might want to add some of your own • I need a place to play. • I need a place to learn. • I need a place to live. • I need a place to shop. • I need a place to explore. • I need a place to work
Quality of life: resourcesThink about these statements and whether some are more important than others. You might want to add some of your own • I need new clothes to wear. • I need clean water to drink. • I need energy for warmth and light. • I need clean air to breathe. • I need energy for a television and a computer. • I need food to eat. • I need a home to live in.
Which needs are the most important for ……. • Being healthy? • Feeling happy? • Feeling safe? • Staying alive? • Do you have all your basic needs met? • Do you know of someone who doesn’t?
Choose what you think are the six most important needs. • How are they connected? • Which things on your list are free? • Which things need money? • When people have money coming in, we call this an income. • Does everyone have an income? • Do people always have the same amount of income?
Thinking further…. • What else do you think improves our lives? • What can we do to improve our own lives? • What can we do to improve other people’s lives? • How do other people work to improve their lives? • What do we do in our lives that reduces the quality of life for others?
20% of the world’s population use 80% of the energy. (www.create.org.uk) 80% 20% ENERGY IS THIS FAIR?
Film Challenge • Now watch some of the suggested Ashden films and see how well you can answer the questions!
Questions on Quality of Life Learning objectives: • To be able to use secondary sources of information to answer questions • To be able to recognise ways in which people can improve their own lives • To be able to recognise how people can work to improve the environment People around the world are finding ways to improve their quality of life. Watch one of the suggested Ashden films and see how well you can answer these questions. You may have to watch the film more than once. • Where in the world did this project take place? • How has this energy project improved people’s lives? • How has this project helped the environment? • What financial costs are there and why does this matter? • How would you feel if you were living in a family here before the changes? • How would you feel after the changes? • How does this compare with quality of life in our country? • What can we learn from these people?
Resources The next few slides can be printed and photocopied if required to support learning. They are in black and white.
Imagine that you are all alone and have nothing – what is most important to you? PEOPLE (Cut out and rank these statements) I need doctors to look after me. I need teachers to teach me. I need a family to love me. I need relatives to help look after me. I need friends to talk and play with. PLACES (Cut out and rank these statements) Thinking about Quality of Life I need a place to play in. I need a place to feel safe. I need a place to learn. I need a shop to buy things in. I need a home to live in. RESOURCES (Cut out and rank these statements) I need food to eat. I need clean air to breathe. I need energy for a television and computer. I need new clothes to wear. I need clean water to drink. I need energy to give me light and warmth.
water home light and warmth Clean air family food My Quality of Life Web In this completed example, six things have been chosen as being the most important needs for a very basic quality of life and links have been drawn to show how they are seen as being connected.
Questions on Quality of Life Learning objectives: • To be able to use secondary sources of information to answer questions • To be able to recognise ways in which people can improve their own lives • To be able to recognise how people can work to improve the environment People around the world are finding ways to improve their quality of life. Watch one of the suggested Ashden films and see how well you can answer these questions. You may have to watch the film more than once. • Where in the world did this project take place? • How has this energy project improved people’s lives? • How has this project helped the environment? • What financial costs are there and why does this matter? • How would you feel if you were living in a family here before the changes? • How would you feel after the changes? • How does this compare with quality of life in our country? • What can we learn from these people?
Tick the term when you are sure you understand it Key vocabulary Treadle pumps Kerosene Solar photovoltaics Irrigation Deforestation Cultivation Micro-enterprise Air pollution Erosion Micro-finance Enterprise Agricultural waste
