Welcome to Maths, Science and Technology Enrichment Day

1. Welcome to Maths, Science and Technology Enrichment Day Our Competence this term is: ‘Research and Transfer of knowledge’. This means finding and using information in different ways.

2. Today, your class has to look at lots of evidence and then decide… Should we stop eating chocolate?

3. Should we stop eating chocolate? • Each group of experts will find out about different aspects of this argument. • You each need to find evidence that supports your expert point of view. • Then you need to organise the evidence you find into a short presentation (maybe 5 to 7 minutes long) to persuade the rest of the class to your point of view. • After lunch, each group will present your evidence and point of view to the rest of the class. • The you will all vote to make a decision.

4. Each class will have: two groups of each of… Health experts Cacao growers Each expert group will have a different point of view. You have to persuade the rest of the class that you are right! Workers in a Chocolate factory.

5. Health experts Chocolate makers Cacao growers* You need to persuade us all to keep on eating chocolate! You need to persuade us all to eat only FairTrade chocolate! You need to persuade us all to stop eating chocolate!

6. What you have to do today • Prepare! • Skim/scan your pack so you know what’s in it. • Make sure everyone in your group understands what the group is trying to do. • Look at the important questions in your pack. You need to find out more about each of these questions. • Share out the work: • Every person in your group needs to make themselves an expert on ONE of these important questions. • Decide who will research each question. (Decide who does what part of the jigsaw.) • Agree when you will meet up to put together the jigsaw and see how you are getting on. Preparing your presentation will be a bit like doing a jigsaw. Everyone has a part to play. Each person will become an expert on your own question (your own part of the jigsaw). The group presentation puts all the jigsaw pieces together.

7. Do the work! • Every person needs to become an expert on ONE important question. (That’s your own part of the jigsaw.) • You can research your question by using the pack and also by using your shared i-pad. • What information will persuade the others in the class to hold your point of view? You might want to work alone or in pairs but you must be able to answer each of the four questions between you. Q2 Q1 Q4 Q3

8. Share information! • Get together as a group again to share what you know and to plan for your presentation. • Decide what you will need. • Everyone must contribute! • Finish the presentation! • Prepare materials for the presentation. (Graphs, posters, key facts…) • Rehearse your presentation. Q2 Q1 Q3 Q4

9. Other things you might want to know • During the day, you will also be able to contribute to a FORUM. • This is a sort of on-line discussion. • You can add your own point of view to the forum during the day. • Some pupils* have a special task: to make a video either ‘for’ or ‘against’ continuing to eat chocolate. • * they will know who they are before today • We hope that these videos will be ready for you to watch during Lesson 5 near the end of the day. 

10. GOOD LUCK! • Remember that you will need to work sensibly as a team • Help one another • Share out the work • Prepare resources and evidence to help you • Do the best you can! • Join in! • Have fun!