1. Interesting
Minus
Plus P5
Cluster
Feedback

2. PLUS / MINUS / INTERESTING
Give pupils between 1 and 2 minutes to discuss all the good points about the statement.
Give pupils between 1 and 2 minutes to discuss all the bad points about the statement.
Give pupils between 1 and 2 minutes to create two or three, open ended questions about the statement which could be used to generate some good discussion.

3. Ideas for PMI. (Feel free to modify these to suit your context)
Egyptians:
Everyone should have the option to mummify their pets
All homes should look like pyramids
We are governed by a Pharaoh
Early man:
Shops are closed, you now have to become a hunter/gatherer
You have to make your clothes yourself

4. General: (Most of the feedback was for general topics)
Everyone has a laptop in the class
We could go to space for a school trip
You can only buy locally produced products in the shops
All children must walk to school
You have just won the lottery
New leisure centre being built will take up half of the play park
Local train station is closing

5. Everyone must live in the town (or country)
The summer is going to be very hot and dry
Healthy break is being made compulsory
There will be a power cut all next week
You have to collect all your water from a well
The council is going to charge you every time you flush the toilet
Law states trees must no longer be cut down
Your house must be completely run by renewable energy

6. School uniform is no longer compulsory
All homes should be heated by solar power
No more land is made available for building on
Children should have 1 hour of PE every day
No more homework
You set up a circus
Children under 11 are not allowed a mobile
School starts at 8am and runs to 2pm
You move to live in a lighthouse

7. Less Realistic ideas: (but still good for discussion)
You can eat chocolate whenever you want
The council stops emptying the bins
Countries stop trading products
Milk is replaced by coke
Coke freely available to all pupils at break time
Homework must be completed on computer
Holidays have been shortened (or lengthened)
Government introduce a minimum pocket money allowance

8. Principal has asked the pupils to come with the school rules
It hasn’t rained for a whole year
Teachers are no longer used in schools
What if we didn’t have traffic lights
School runs from Monday to Saturday
You have a birthday everyday
You are no longer allowed to use electricity
Humans hibernate
Fish can live on land