On Tuesday, 13 July 130 students from Year 9 spent an entire day working through Crisis Point. Prepared for the day by teacher Wendy Hildreth, the students worked in five different classroms assisted by other teachers and students from Colchester 6th Form. With much good humour and guidance from teachers they undertook the task of working through the three stages of the game. Stage 1 saw them act out the roles as citizens of different member states of the European Union; stage 2 saw them don hats as European Commissioners and finally stage 3 slotted them into the guise of MEPs.
At the end of the day each class had produced a law to help prevent the spread of the disease. Studetns, representing their class, produced powerpoint presentation which were delivered to the whole year group in the Assembly Hall. A final vote was taken to choose the best law. It was then fed into the simulator and resulted in 36 million citizens losing their lives to the disease. Would a different law hav seen less people die ? Find out by trying the resource in your school or just experiment using the online simulator. Do let us know the result!
Comments from teacher Wendy Hildreth:
“You have made a very good pack which can be delivered by non-specialists and specialists alike and can be taken at many different levels. I am hoping that having put in all the work that we can run the same thing next year. The students and teachers thoroughly enjoyed working through the Crisis Point scenario”.
2 South Lanarkshire schools will be having Crisis Point days over the next week. We hope to have an enjoyable, fun and interactive day dealing with the TB outbreak. Any suggestions or tips would be much appreciated.