5. Taiga Stakeholder Analysis/Conflict Matrix/Debate Edexcel B 8.6b

This is an exciting lesson for the students who end with a powerful silent debate. It is a good round off to all the things they have learnt, and no doubt become passionate and opinionated about to this point. They start by making quiz questions and testing each other on the last lesson 4 topic. They then start to consider who has a stake in the taiga. After which they draw a conflict matrix to decide who might be allies and enemies. However, they should come to realise that the conflict matrix is to limiting a tool because as they start to debate they realise that the government of Russia or Canada might have different perspectives and that some people in Russian government are fighting hard to maintain the Taiga as seen in a flip learning video for this lesson. They may also find that some of their friends who are acting as Environmentalists are easily bought off by oil companies so they start to realise these could be actual issues in real life. A silent debate is very powerful because they cannot talk, and they have to write everything they are thinking down, it shows you how much they have learnt, and they really seem to enjoy expressing themselves at this point in the SOW.