Lesson video

Hi, everybody, welcome to another citizenship lesson.

My name is Miss Elmi and this is Mr. Henson, and we'll be your citizenship teachers for today.

Hi guys, welcome to today's lesson.

We're really excited to have you with us today.

We're going to be exploring a very interesting topic in citizenship, we're going to look at why do we need rules? So the Miss Elmi, do you want to tell them what they need for today's lesson? Yeah, so, for today's lesson, all you need is a pen and notepad just to jot down some notes and a quiet space so you can focus and concentrate in today's lesson.

Okay, now that you've got that, we're going to give you a couple of seconds so, pause the video here to grab your equipment and then once you're ready, come back to us for today's lesson.

Okay, are we ready? Brilliant, okay.

So the lesson title for today is why do we need rules? So what is the focus? The focus is essentially understanding what the purpose of rules are and how they connect to laws.

Where do laws come from and why do we need rules and laws to help us live together? That is what we're going to be learning today, and by the end of today's lesson, I want you to come up with your own rules and laws to help govern an imaginary society on an imaginary island.

Okay, are you excited? 'Cause I am, brilliant, let's get started.

So, what are rules? Now, I have a definition on the , so let's read this aloud together.

Rules are a set of guidelines that tell people what is, or is not allowed.

Some similar words on law, control, authority, code, charter.

Now, how does rules connect to law? Well, a law is the set of rules that people in a society must follow.

Okay, so imagine rules that govern society, okay? That tell people that live together in society, what they can and cannot do, that is essentially laws.

So I want you to think about this concept and now I want you to come up with five rules that you can think of and write these down and they can be from anywhere.

So there can be rules that you have at home, rules that you have in school, rules that you have in society and note those down.

So pause the video now and do the task.

Okay, so some feedback for you, in school, you might have rules like you're not allowed to run down the corridor or that you maybe are not allowed chewing gum whilst you're in school.

If you are having rules at home, that might be that you switch off your mobile or internet by a certain time, it might be that you have to go to bed or go to sleep at a certain time, in your hobbies, for example, sports, you might have to listen to a referee and abide by the rules of the game.

It might just be a moral rule that you have to be a good sports person, and other rules in general might be that you have to stop at a red light if you're driving a car or that you have to be on time for a job.

Now, I'm sure you've got loads more than me and Miss Elmi have got here.

So if you got laws, why don't you write them down a bit of paper, and it's really important to understand why do we have these rules? Now, if we look back at the first couple of slides that we did together, we said that rules might also be considered a law and a law is something that you have to do.

So what we've got here for you is just a little bit of fun and introduction into some laws that may or may not exist in the United Kingdom.

So what I want you to do is write the numbers one to five down on your bit of paper.

and then simply for each question, I would like you to write true or false.

So I'll read you out the questions and all you have to do is put true or false whether you think each of them is correct, or whether it is false.

So number one, you cannot handle a summon fish suspiciously.

Number two, it is illegal to wear a suit of armour in parliament.

Number three, you can wear a police officer's uniform to a fancy dress party.

Number four, it is illegal to sleep for a full 24 hours in one sleep.

And number five, it is illegal for females to eat chocolate on public transport.

So write down one to five, write down true or false and pause the video now to complete that task.

Okay, so little bit of fun here.

And what we're going to do is explore whether or not these are true or false.

Now, if you have got true from number one, you would be correct and that you cannot handle salmon fish suspiciously.

If you've got true for number two, again, you would be correct.

If you've got true from number three, that you can wear a police officer uniform to a fancy dress party, that's wrong, you are not allowed to do that.

Number four, can you sleep more than 24 hours in one sleep? False, it's not illegal, you can sleep for as long as you want.

And number five, it is illegal for females to eat chocolate on public transport, true or false? It's actually true.

Now, if you're interested in why those rules exist, why those laws exist, you can do some little bit of background research outside of this lesson, and maybe you can find some different laws that exist and share with us those at the end of the lesson.

Did any of those surprise you? I know it surprised me.

So, why do we have rules in place in the first place? Why do we need laws and rules? And there are three key reasons why we have laws in place.

First of all, it's for protection.

We need rules to protect ourselves and each other to keep us all safe wherever we go.

The second is to keep the peace, people in public need to know what they can or cannot do, we'll need to be able to live together peacefully, in order to do that, we need to know what the rules are when we are interacting with each other.

And the third is to ensure justice.

So we need rules and laws in place to make sure that there is justice and that makes sure that everybody is treated fairly and that nobody is discriminated against.

So just to clarify, there are three core reasons why we have rules and laws in place.

Protection, to keep the peace and to ensure justice.

So, have we always had rules, have we always had laws? Now the first ever law to exist is known as the Magna Carta.

Now I'm going to read this out aloud and I just want you to follow along and note down any key points.

The Magna Carta was the first time that a set of rules or laws was written to him in the United Kingdom and its purpose was to hold everyone, the King included, accountable for their actions and accountable essentially just means responsible, to be held responsible for the things that you do.

This document is important because it aims to create equality, meaning it aims to create fairness in society, and so that nobody was above the law.

So we have rules in place to ensure that that is embedded.

So, what would happen if we did not have any rules in place, or if we did not have any laws? If we did not have any in-laws, there would be no prison as a punishment, there'd be no justice.

People could do what they want without punishment.

Society would become unstable and people might feel unsafe as there would be no police to stop crime being committed or rules being broken.

So I want you to think about this statement, okay? "A world without law is better than a world with the rules." So first of all, we've got Adam, Adam says, "Yes, absolutely.

A world without laws I get to do what I want whenever I want, without anybody telling me not to do it, I have complete freedom.

Why would I want to be told what to do?" So that's Adam's thoughts on the other hand Tamina says, "No, definitely not, we need rules to keep people safe.

If there are no rules, people could steal from the shops, hurt people, or be treated unfairly.

Nobody could stop them.

People need to trust each other and having rules helps that." Now you've got two opposing opinions there.

What we'd like you to do now for task number three is which argument do you agree with most? Try and come up with at least two reasons why you agree with either Adam or Tamina.

So pause the video now and complete that task.

Okay, so if we're looking at a model answer here, if you've agreed with Adam, you might have said something that along the lines of, he gets to do what he wants.

Okay, he gets freedom.

And on the other side with Tamina, you might say, well, that's not necessarily a good thing, because if you could do what you want that might make people feel unsafe, so well with law in Tamina's eyes is a good thing because it allows that safety.

Tamina also says that people need to trust in each other.

So you might have had all the reasons that Adam and Tamina didn't mention, and that's great, but whatever side, make sure you've got at least two reasons for your arguments.

So final task for today.

We want you to imagine that you've been stranded on a desert island.

You've woken up on a desert island with nine of your classmates.

You have the only inhabitants on the island, so there is only you there, you have to find to live and survive with each other.

What me and Miss Elmi would like you to do here is come up with a list of 10 rules that you would put in place to help you all survive.

So 10 rules to help you live peacefully and together on that desert island.

If you want a challenge here, make sure you've got at least three rules that are for protection, three rules that aim to keep the peace and three rules that will help you to maintain justice.

So decide in your 10 rules and pause the video now to complete your task.

Okay, well done guys.

You have done so well to focus and concentrate and get this far, now me the Mr. Henson have come up with our own rules for our islands.

Now, all I want you to do is just kind of check how similar or different they might be to your own.

Rule number one is everybody gets equal amount of food, equal share of the food, no one gets more food or less food.

Everybody has a responsibility in the camp.

We all have to do our chores.

Another rule that me and Mr. Henson came up with is all ITERS belong to the island, nobody owns anything.

We all have to share.

The fourth rule is that if you break the rules, you have to spend time outside the camp, so you are isolated.

You're not going to spend time with everybody in the camp.

You're going to spend time outside the camp.

And the final rule we came up with is everybody has a day as a leader and that person will make the decisions for that day.

So there won't be one leader.

We are all going to be leaders each day, we are on the island.

Now those are our rules, and they might be completely different to your own, and I would love to hear what they are.

Just want to say, well done for getting this far.

Okay, you all worked really hard and done really well to get here.

And I just want to quickly recap what we have done so far.

So, first of all, we looked at rules and the purpose of the rules and we really looked at what is the point of them.

Then we did a little bit of history and we look back and see where laws came from.

And then what we've done, we've applied that to your practical situation.

Now in that practical situation, you considered both the history of rules and who's going to deliver them.

And Miss Elmi, if we take you through to the next slide.

Yeah, I am, and really excited to see what work that you've done.

And if you would like to please ask your parent or carer to share your work on the Twitter, using the tag @OakNational and using the hashtag, #LearnwithOak.

Me are so excited to see all the work that you've produced today, and to see whether your laws match up with ours.

We'll see you again next time in our future lessons, but for now I've been Mr. Henson.

That I've been Miss Elmi, and we will see you again in our lessons in the future.

Bye.

Bye-bye.