Sorting out

These teaching strategies help students to:

• plan and organise information and understandings
• summarise key information
• clarify relationships or associations between information and ideas
• draw conclusions
• enhance learning and boost memory
• foster creativity, critical thinking and problem solving
• enhance presentation skills
• promote group collaboration
• compare and contrast ideas, feelings and information.

Mind map

• Create a mind map by placing the main theme at the centre of the page. This can be an image, word or both.
• Create subthemes by drawing branches from the main theme.
• Use words, phrases, colour, shapes, pictures and symbols. to connect ideas and themes around the main theme.
• Use digital tools such as Canva, Xmind, Bubble.us, Popplet.
• The SECCA app is a free resource with over 2000 RSE images that can be helpful for mind maps.

Art expression

• Use art opportunities to represent understanding of concepts. 
• For example, using abstract art to represent feelings, relationships, etc. 
• Individual or collaborative artwork using different mediums can be used - collage, mural, digital, paint, textile, sculpture, etc.

T chart and Y chart

• Compare and contrast two concepts with a T chart, and three concepts with a Y chart.
• Y charts can record what something looks like, sounds like, feels like. (e.g. consent)
• T charts can record what something is and isn't (e.g. consent)

Venn diagram

• A graphic organiser to group and separate ideas and concepts.
• Can be used for concepts such as puberty - social, emotional and physical changes.

Comic strips

• Draw a comic strip or cartoon to represent RSE scenarios.
  •  e.g. assertive communication to deny consent, help seeking when someone is feeling unsafe, etc.
• Students can draw their own comics in full or be given a cartoon with thought bubbles and text blanked out that they fill in.

Newspaper headlines

• Write an opinion about an RSE issue described in a newspaper headline.