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Description

Based on the principles of Youth Shaped Scouting (YSS), Beavers will be asked to think in small groups about a range of issues affecting their communities (various different layers of abstraction - 1 square kilometre around their meeting place, their city, their country, the world). Beavers will be asked to rank these issues by importance.

Resources

>Laminated graphics representing different issues of interest (one set per lodge):
e.g.
Litter
Parks and open spaces
Transport
Poverty and hunger
Climate change

>Blank laminated pieces of card to Beavers to add their own ideas.

>A bean bag for each lodge.

>Maps that illustrate some of these issues,
e.g.
Map of local area
Map of local parks
Transport map
Poverty distribution in the city
Map showing increasing rainfall and global temperatures

>Poster/flip-chart paper

>Felt-tip pens and whiteboard pens

Instructions

Introduce the topic (plenary session) - use maps for contextualisation

Divide Beavers into lodges and the leader assigned to the lodge should facilitate discussion, revealing one laminated graphic at a time. Only the Beaver with the bean bag can speak at any one time.

Beavers should be encouraged to think of their own ideas, not already on the cards. These can be added using a whiteboard pen on blank laminated cards.

In lodges, Beavers should order their cards in order of importance (subjective).

The lodges will share their ideas and orders to the wider colony. Speakers for the lodge should explain their lodge's rationale.

Beavers should return to their lodges and draw a poster representing the issue their lodge found most important. This will inform a follow-up meeting in which an action plan will be drawn up and key stakeholders and influencers will be discussed.

Tags

• community action
• Issues
• Youth Shaped Scouting

Badge Links

• Community Impact - Identify