Need ideas for lessons about Christmas, ethical consumption, and everyday life? Take a look here, add your own, and comment on others'.

Lesson plans for 3-11 year olds

Lesson plans for 11-16 year olds

- Using a photocopied map of the world (or a googlemap), ask students to plot the journey their Christmas present made from their home, back to the manufacturer, designer and source of the materials. How far back can they go?

Lesson plans for High School/Sixth Form students

- Ask students to think about what they want for Christmas, and then see if, using the Internet, encyclopedias etc., they can research where it comes from, who designed/manufactured/constructed it, what materials were used and where did they come from, what are the effects on the cities of manufacture.

Workshop plans for College/University students

- Film Studies: In groups, ask students to plot a 'classic' Christmas narrative, with each group taking a different environmental issue. Then swap the 'classic plots' and ask the groups to deconstruct each others using the theories of Propp, Bakhtin, or Deleuze.

- Contemporary Art: Brief students on Bourriaud's concept of artist as 'social engineer', then ask them to work out an intervention into Christmas shopping habits.