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Welcome to the Makutano Junction Activities

You will find a special edited exert from the Soap Opera that explores the theme of each activity. To watch this with your class click, 'Watch Related Video' to stream live from the internet, or 'Download Video' before your lesson. By mid-October 2008, the first four series (comprising 13 half hour episodes each) will be available for viewing via this website.

Please ask each of your students to complete the Survey before and after they participate in the activity. We need to find out about your students' understanding of Kenya in order to measure the impact of the project.

You will find a comment section with each activity. Please let us know how you get on. Did you discover any more curriculum links? Did you adapt the activity to span a series of lessons? Your feedback not only enables us to improve the activities, but also enables you to share your tips with other teachers across the UK.

Activity 1: Exploring Kenya A class based activity exploring where we get our information about and perceptions of Kenya from. It then us... Read More	Activity 2: MDGs and Me Suitable for KS 3 and 4. A discussion based activity exploring individuals' responsibilities as global citize... Read More
Activity 3: The Structure of Soap Suitable for Key Stage 3 and 4. Identify the core, component parts of a piece of tv drama. Suitable for use i... Read More	Activity 4: Living with HIV/AIDS Suitable for Key stages 3 and 4. Design a public health message for your peers educating them about HIV AIDS,... Read More
Activity 5: Malaria Matters This activity encourages students to conduct their own research into causes, prevalence, symptoms, effects an... Read More	Activity 6: Grow Your Own! Suitable for KS 3 - 4. Class based activity exploring food and farming, and the benefits of environmentally a... Read More
Activity 7: Red’s Relationship An activity which invites students to examine key elements of healthy relationships. It also encourages stude... Read More	Activity 8: Money and Livelihoods Suitable for KS 3 and 4. Class based exercise exploring the ethics of business and money, and looking at ente... Read More
Activity 9: Rights or Wrongs? A class based exercise looking at the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child, involving discus... Read More	Activity 10: Soaps and Stereotypes Appropriate for KS3 and KS4. Explores both the meaning of "stereotype" and some of the possible effects of st... Read More
Activity 11: Alcohol This activity encourages students to think about the role of alcohol in various communities. It also highligh... Read More	Activity 12: Intergenerational Issues This activity encourages students to think about the relationships between generations in their family and lo... Read More
Activity 13: Adolescent Male Issues This activity encourages students to think about pressures which (male) teenagers face in Kenya and the UK. I... Read More	Activity 14: Sexual Harrassment and Consent This activity encourages students to think of any UK soap operas where incidences of sexual harassment have b... Read More
Activity 15: Democracy for all? This activity encourages students to explore the notion of “democracy” and what it means. It invites stud... Read More	Activity 16: Child Slavery This activity helps students to build an awareness of slavery issues in the world today. The slavery cards gi... Read More
Activity 17: Energy and Global Warming This is a speaking and listening activity that will enable students to explore the complex issues around ener... Read More	Activity 18: Rites of Passage This activity gives students the chance to use their understanding of religious beliefs and explore questions... Read More
Activity 19: Tourism and Sustainability This activity aims to raise awareness of the impacts of tourism on a country and to encourage students to des... Read More