Picture Sort
Aims
- Develop visual images of communities
- Encourage young people to consider other peoples' experiences
- Encourage young people to contribute to group discussions
Resource
Numbered 'Photograph Cards' and corresponding crib sheet.
View resource 
photo_cards.pdf
Instructions
Which area? (5 mins)
There are 24 picture cards, three for each section of the Sustainable Communities Wheel.
The young people should work in groups of four or five.
Distribute a number of cards to the group and ask them to decide which section of the Sustainable Communities Wheel they think the pictures relate to - for example services, transport, equality.
After about five minutes ask the young people to look at the answer sheet to see if they got it right.
What kind of place is this? (25 mins)
Working with the same set of cards the young people must now assess each of the cards individually.
Ask them to discuss:
- What kind of place is this?
- What kind of people might go there?
- What are the good things about this place?
- What are the negative things about this place?
- How could this place be improved?
Some of the pictures contain images of people. Encourage the young people to imagine they are these people and to think how these people might feel about the place.
Feedback (10 mins)
The young people present their ideas to the group.
Extension activities:
The young people choose one picture and make up a story about a community from what they see in the card.