Lesson video

Welcome to our citizenship lesson today.

I'm Mrs. Barry, and I'll be running through your lesson with you.

This is a series of lessons on what are our identities and communities.

And we are on lesson two of six, looking at how identities change.

So today what I need you to do is just make sure you've got your brain with you.

You've got something to write with a pen or a pencil or something similar, and something to write on the, so some paper or something similar to.

that would be lovely.

Do make sure that you have turned off any absolute notifications that might come up, if you can.

And just to avoid any destruction and make sure you are in a quiet place to work, where you can follow the lesson really clearly when you're ready to begin, and you've got all those bits and pieces sorted, we will start the lesson.

So now we're ready to begin.

I've got a few different things that we're going to run through during the lesson today.

And obviously we're focusing on this concept of how the identities change.

Now I must add here that our last lessons, in less than one in this series of lessons looked at the concept of identity.

And I would encourage you to go and have a look at that lesson.

If you're in any way, unsure as to what identity is, and I will do a bit of a recap.

So we going to start off with what identity means and do some different tasks, which matches up the different types of identity that you might come across.

We going to have a look at what it means to belong, because belonging is important when we're looking at identity, because it links us to other groups of people and makes us feel like we are represented or belong in a group or a community.

We're also going to have a look at how identities have changed, because that's the main theme of this lesson.

So have a look at different examples of how identity has changed personally and broadly in different places.

And then we going to to make sure that you have understood it all and that you've found the lesson informative, and you've really tell us how identities change.

Okay.

So we're going to get started by looking at different types of identity and just do a little recap.

And as I said, we did cover this in lesson one of this series of lessons.

So we've got five different identities here, looking firstly, at person identity, which is who you are as a person.

So the different characteristics of values that you have, you identify with.

You've got group identities where you associate and belong to a group.

And an example here you might use as a football club, because there are a group of people who all share in what interest global identities are shared around the world.

So with that one, if we use the football example, again, you would be looking at having a shared interest in football because it's played all over the world.

You've got national identity, which is looking at a particular place, being a citizen of a specific country, and the things that you share as a result of that national identity.

And then lastly, one of the important ones is multiple identities.

So that's the fact that you are able to have different identities at different times in different situations.

So sometimes you might change between supporting one football team and then if that's a local much, you would support your local team.

But if it's a global match that the world cup, you would be supporting a team that associates to a country.

So I'm just going to ask you to have a look at these different statements.

And this is our first task today's lesson.

And shouldn't take you too long, a few minutes when you pause.

And you're going to match up these different statements to those types of identities, just to check that you understand what those identities mean and some examples for them.

So when you're ready, just pause the video and when you're finished, you can press play and we'll carry on with our lesson.

Okay.

So we're going to have a look at the answers and see which ones you matched up.

Don't worry if you've got any of them wrong, and this exercise is just to make sure that you've understood identity before we move on to the main content of this lesson.

So person identity, your eye colour is an example of personal identity.

So we've got, blue eyes.

You've got group identity, and the statement here is I belong to Scouts like some of my friends.

So your friend is a group.

Scouts is a group.

It's a shared identity with a group of people.

You've got global identity.

So I live in China, but support Manchester United, that's something that you are supporting as a result, and even though you in another place around the world, you might share that interest with someone else.

You've got national identity.

So I'm Scottish because I was born in Scotland.

So Scotland is a nation.

And therefore the concept of being Scottish and associating with, that is a national identity.

And then multiple identities here.

You've got, again, my example of football or sporting event that at least I sometimes support England for sporting events but also support Liverpool.

So you are, have a layered effect essentially in that sometimes your support one group, but in a bigger world cut much or similar events you would support England.

So, how do identities change? Because that's the main focus of our lesson.

And I want you to think about yourself to start off with, so we're going to create a timeline and I want you to add some different identities you had, have, and might have separate this up into three different areas.

Birth, so what you were born with, so what identities you had when you were born, what you identify with now.

So your personal identity, or it could be one of the other types of identities we've covered.

And where do you see yourself in the future? Do you think your identity might change as you grow up? So you can draw this out on a piece of paper and just come up with three things for each of those categories.

So I encourage you to pause now, and then when you're ready, if you click play, we will continue with the lesson.

If you spend about five minutes on this, having to think about it and writing it down, that would be perfect.

Okay.

Welcome back.

Hopefully you have come up with three different things for each of those categories.

I'm going to share with you now what I put in there, just you can see what sort of thing would be on the right tracks for this task.

So birth, I had blue eyes.

I would have been European because we were part of the European union and I was born in England.

So my national identity was English.

And then me now.

So I'm a teacher now.

Obviously I wasn't a teacher when I was born.

I associate with being British because I live in Britain, but I'm also English because that's my national identity because I live in England.

In the future, I want to be able to play the guitar.

I want to be able to run a marathon and I will continue to be English.

So that one hasn't changed that one state the same as time goes on.

And that's an important thing in this task is not all of the more features will Inge, just some of them.

So if I'm having my blue eyes could stay all the way through, but you're being European will change for those of, you know, we are leaving the European union and therefore my association with being European could change as time goes on.

So some things change and some things don't, and that's absolutely fine.

Now, hopefully your little task there will show some of the things that you have the same and think will be the same, and some of them that will have changed over time.

Now, one of the important things that we need to look at when we look at changing identities is the concept of belonging.

Feeling that you belong is an important part of being a human being, allows you to understand who you are.

And this is all connected to who you identify with as a person.

Our identity is formed partly by our relationships and the way we are nurtured.

And as a result, our sense of belonging with other groups is important.

It makes us feel connected and involved with our environment and our communities who and where we belong to impacts our identity and how others view us as individuals.

I've got a clip here that I want you to go and watch.

It's on the worksheet.

And I will give you some time to do that in a moment on the next slide.

Now I can add timeline earlier, assets belonging can change in line with our identity.

So you might start off in school and then later move on to university.

So you belong to the school while you're there.

And after you leave, you then belong to your university day two, one, two, and you don't stop being part of your old school.

It's just that you belong to a new community, a new group of people, and therefore what, who you belong to and a new sense of belonging is really important.

So the task here is I'm going to give you, I'm going to ask you to pause the video and to go and watch the video on slide two of the worksheet.

And I want you to think about what does the clip teach us about the importance of belonging.

Once you've done that you can come back to the lesson and press play, and we will talk about that and what you may or may not have noticed.

Okay? So hopefully you've been over and watched the clip.

It was only short, but it gives you some idea of some young people and their concept and understanding of belonging.

Some of the things I picked up, we're going to run through some of them now for you.

And might have been that it's that sense of not being alone.

It's being part of something bigger than just you being with other people you like, it might provide you with some happiness because you're able to work with and communicate with other people, gives you confidence in yourself, allows you to have a group identity, to belong to a group of people.

And also at the end there, they were talking about that feeling of being at home.

So the feeling that you are part of something bigger, and that literal concept of belonging in the place that you are at that time, and that impacts your identity and who you are as an individual, just as much as it does different types of identities that connects you to other people.

So why is it that our identities change? And I've come up with four reasons here.

So we've got personal choice, things that you choose to do will impact how your identity changes.

So earlier on, I mentioned that I would like to run a marathon and that's a personal choice.

Not everyone enjoys that sort of thing.

I joined.

I joined a running club couple of years ago.

And so it's my personal choice, my personal challenge for myself to be able to go and do that.

And that will change my identity because whereas before he wouldn't see me as a runner, eventually they were another one is events and experiences.

So things that happen to you often outside of your control, and that change in you as a person.

So it could be something as simple as your household or your family gets the new pet, and that will change the way your life Rose.

I've got a dog at home and it means that we've got to look after her.

We have to feed her, take her for walks.

And so that's just a very minor example of an event or an experience that changes my identity and who I am as a person.

It could obviously be something much bigger than that outside of our control.

I mean, at the, there were lots of things going on in the world that impact the way that we live and how our lives are working.

Our surroundings also change as time goes on.

So you weren't always live at home I'm sure.

And when you move out, it means that your location or geography or change, and part of your identity might change as a result of that.

I used to live in the North of the country, and people used to call me at northerner and now I live in the South.

So people would call me a southerner.

So my literal surroundings have changed my identity over time and also your own changing views.

And those might be impacted by your parents, might be impacted by the government, might be impacted by your friends.

Your own personal views can change over time, which in turn will change your identity.

So it could be something like an association with a sporting group.

You might change which one you want to support because of someone else's views or some research that you've done that made you decide you want to change your view and your support or something, or someone.

A really good example of how identities change over time actually is part of British identity and how Britain in itself has changed.

So I wonder if he knew that the United Kingdom wasn't this always as United as we know it to be today.

So in 1707, it was just the kingdom of great Britain, which included Scotland, England, and Wales, and then Ireland, all of Ireland joined in, in 1801.

And then in 1922, it became what we know it to be today, United Kingdom of great Britain and Northern Ireland, which includes Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

So you can see over time over centuries identity for Britain has changed.

I've just got a quick task for you that you can do just to make sure you know, which part is which nation.

So task four here, I'm going to ask you to label the map.

And I have put this into the worksheet.

If you want to go over to the worksheet and use that, it's on slide three and is labelled as task four, you can use that to label it, or you could do a quick sketch on whatever you're using to write on and just label it roughly.

And if you, if you can't do either of those, then can you just think about which parts would be which nation? So I'm going to ask you to pause now, and when you've completed the task, you can press play and we will continue with the lesson.

Okay.

So let's have a look at what you have done.

Hopefully you've labelled up the United Kingdom as I have done on the right there.

So we've got Scotland in the North England, in the South, Wales is over to the West and to the North of that little Island on the West, there, we have got Northern Ireland and they are the four nations that make up United Kingdom.

So each of those nations have its own unique traditions, which contribute to their own personal national identities, but it means that the United Kingdom, as a whole mixes up all those different things and has its own identity as a singular place, but also multiple identities.

And it's important to realise that not everyone associates with being British, because some people want to associate purely with the nation in which they live.

Northern Ireland is a good example here, because that obviously only became part of the United Kingdom more recently.

So some people living in Northern Ireland might associate just with being Irish or Northern Irish rather than British.

And Scotland, you can see here that we've noted down.

They voted for independence in 2014, suggesting that some people in Scotland don't associate with and the United Kingdom don't associate with being British potentially, and that they would rather just be Scottish and they want to be independent, separate from the rest of the United Kingdom.

Another way in which our United Kingdom is a bit different is as a result of migration, the movement of people between different countries has changed United kingdom's identity.

So we have a lot more different cultures and different beliefs within United Kingdom that we would have had many years ago.

And so that shows one way in which British identity is changing over time.

This is just a timeline, really, of some of the changes I can't fit all the changes that have happened in the United Kingdom On to a timeline for you, but some of the changes that have had an impact on Britain.

So we started off with the Romans invasion and invasion brings new people, new ideas, and new concepts for a country to adopt.

You've got things like in the middle ages, skill traits, people from Germany and Belgium settled.

And that would have increased our skills based within the country.

We've got the slave trade, which would have increased our diversity, the different types of people living in the United Kingdom.

And then you can see at the end, without going through each of these individually, we've got the European union and the freedom of movement, which although will be reduced or stopping soon as a result of the United Kingdom, leaving European union.

It has meant that we have benefited from a lot of people coming to the United Kingdom to work, to study and to live and share that cultures and skills, which can ultimately benefit some of the things that goes on in the United Kingdom.

And that has changed over time.

So just some examples here of how Britain has changed.

As we already recognise early on in our timeline, identity changes over time.

So we looked at when we were born our selves now and ourselves in the future, and looking at those changes that might happen to who we perceive ourselves to be.

This happens in nations too.

And just a quick example that you may have seen in the news recently is the change of the British passport, where we were part of the European union.

We had a European union passport, but now we are leaving the European union.

And it simply says at the top there British passport.

And it's a very visual way of seeing how identity can change over time.

That's to summarise everything we've done.

What I'd like you to do is to complete this paragraph.

You're going to choose the words from the bottom that I've got eight different gaps, eight words for you to use, just to check that you've understood what we have done today.

So when you're ready, you can press pause, it'll take you about five minutes, and then you can obviously resume, press play when you're finished and we will go through it together.

Welcome back.

Hopefully you've had a good go at that and trying to work out which words go where.

I maybe we'll just have a quick look at that together.

Now.

So identities can change over time.

There are a range of different reasons that identity changes.

Some of these are because of choices we make such as wanting to do something new, but learning how to play the guitar.

However, other changes, or as a result of external factors, such as the influence other people's views have on us, it can be a whole country's identity that might change, which will change our identities too.

For example, the UK leaving the EU might change the way individuals view their own identity.

So well done.

That's the end of our lesson.

And we can just recap here, some of the things that we've managed to do.

So we've looked at the overarching question.

How do identities change? We've considered what identity means, looking at the key terms, making sure we understand what is meant by identity.

We've had a look at the sense of belonging that identity brings and the importance of that.

We've had a look at how identity changed over time.

We did ourselves looking at the timeline, and we've also looked at the United Kingdom as a whole and how that's changed over time.

So just a few examples there to make you see how identity isn't just always the same.

It moves and is flexible.

And then we've done the activity at the end there where we've checked your understanding, and hopefully you feel very secure in how identity is changed.

And if there's anything you're not sure and do go back through any part of the lesson and to have another look.

So I've got a takeaway task for you, what you could do.

And what I know my students find really interesting to do is to create an identity murals.

You might do that by drawing different parts of your identity.

You can make it colourful as you like, or even no colour if you don't like to do that, that's fine.

Or you could do a collage.

You could get some magazines, cut some bits and pieces out, stick them onto a piece of paper and show who you are and what your identity is, in a creative way.

And that would be amazing.

If you could share that with your citizenship teacher or your parents or carers even better, if you'd like to, then you could share your work with Oak National and you could ask a parent or carer to do that on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, tagging Oak National and learn with Oak.

So that's the end of our lesson.

Well done.

The last thing I need to remind you to do is to go away and complete the exit quiz.

And I look forward to seeing you for another citizenship lesson soon.