University project about a primary education pack for my final year.

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I am currently doing my final year project and it's about a primary school education pack. I wanted to know more in-depth how education packs are carried out.

I am currently focusing on different key stages: mainly key stage 1 & 2 and the main aim of the project is to create a learning tool for teaching on crime and punishment in a digital way.

So i had an idea already and wanted to focus on a CSI pack

So the idea is:
To have a resource pack that is of a crime scene investigation and this will span over the cross of a few sessions

First session - focus crime scene that happened - the children have to go through and find clues and decide who they think the criminals are: this will be a treasure hunt type game where students will be paired together and be presented with a series of questions to see how it ill be done

2nd session will be a courtroom setting - this will be a role playing session with the children and they have to act out different perspectives and find the culprit.

The 3rd session would be a reflection session - i am still trying to figure out what it could be - hearing your expertise of how session run and how they are done would be great to hear!

Also in terms of the practicality of this and how this would be carried out - having your opinion would be of great benefit.

Thank you and i look forward to hearing back from you.

My first thought is a crime scene a really good idea for 5-7yr olds?

I wouldn’t do a crime scene activity in any depth. What curriculum area would you be targeting?

the brief is to focus on heritage in a museum and the areas that the company would be working on is crime and punishment

For key stage one I think it would be way over their heads. Particularly the second session.

I would...

Session 1 - do they know what rules are? Relate to rules in school, road rules, safety rules etc. you could do some role play in groups.
Session 2- what happens at school, home, on the road, in society etc if you break the rules? Talk about consequences/ punishments.
Session 3 - look at picture scenarios about people breaking rules, identify the rule being broken, discuss what the punishment/ consequences should be.

@Sherrystrull I was going to say this. I have a 5 year old in Yr1, crime scene investigation would be beyond them.

An older sibling had an in-person crime scene activity, but it was reading related and involved nursery rhyme characters (might have been a giant who marched through the classroom). Your scenario sounds better for KS2 or even KS3.

Crime scene is inappropriate for that age range, you are either going to trivialise crime or frighten them

court setting also beyond them. What is your actual brief?

weights and measures in a market and stocks for fraud?

How does it fit with the National Curriculum?
How will it be delivered digitally ie what technology and packages would be required by the school?

That makes no sense at all
Who designed the brief?

• My target age would be 6-10 year olds - meaning key stage 2 and 3
• the brief is regarding heritage and the company is working with the kent police museum and another museum about wider themes of crime and punishment so i have to create a resource pack for this action

that is not key stage 2 and 3

Are you sure you know what you are supposed to be doing?

6 year olds are KS1

Start of year ages:
Year 1 age 5 (ks1)
Year 2 age 6 (ks1)

Year 3 age 7- ks2
Year 4 (age 8) ks2
Year 5 (age 9) ks2
Year 6 age 10 ks2

Kd3- is Y7-Y9 so 11- 13 at start of year

Crime and Punishment is really a KS3 History concept. Feeds into GCSE (KS4)

if you want any advice, you are going to need to be very much clearer about what your brief actually is, because it is all sounding very muddled at the moment.

No it isn't. I teach it with my year 5s. It's a ks2 topic in many schools. We look at the Romans, Saxons, Tudors and Victorians all the way up to present day, discussing which punishments they have and their general approach to crime

I agree. Heritage?

It's going to have to be a very basic concept but it's definitely doable. Instead of focusing on a CSI style thing, why not have them play detective? They could still do the basic crime scene idea that you had where they look for clues but make it a bit less realistic.

I think if you're focusing on punishment for KS2, you need to make it lighter. Most 9 year olds would find throwing rotting veg at someone hysterical. Could you look at crimes people were convicted of and give the DC a range of "medieval / saxon / victorian" punishments e.g. transportation. I still think you're looking at upper age ranges at primary for this, not age 7, though.

Can you explain what a resource pack is? It's not a term I've come across.