Playing around with sexual and reproductive health issues: The provision of health information through the use of theatre in Vanuatu Case Study Teacher's Notes Student Activities As a class, brainstorm some challenges that are facing the people of Vanuatu. Work in small groups to develop a concept map about the consequences of these challenges. Use the butcher paper provided to illustrate your ideas. Report your ideas back to the class and display your concepts maps around the classroom. As a class, discuss the reasons behind the Wan Smolbag Theatre Group being used to disseminate information about health issues. Complete a PMI activity where each student has to come up with a positive (P), a minus (M) and an interesting (I) aspect relating to the information about the theatre group. Get the students to share their ideas with the rest of the class. The information could be recorded on poster paper and displayed in the classroom. After reading the case study, identify similarities and differences between the lives of young people in Vanuatu compared with your lives in Australia. This activity can be completed in pairs. Complete a table like the one illustrated below: Comparison of lives of young people in Vanuatu with those in Australia Similarities Differences         In small groups, share your ideas with others. What information do you think women and young people need to know in regard to their reproductive and sexual health? Consider the consequences of empowering young people and women in regard to their knowledge about health. Put your ideas down on paper. They could be words, phrases, pictures, diagrams, colours etc. Do you think that this project will be successful? Discuss in small groups the advantages and disadvantages associated with this project. Provide reasons for your answers. How do you think this project will be evaluated? In small groups, discuss why the theatre group decided to implement further programs outside of its central activities of playmaking and theatre. What additional programs would you come up with? It is stated in the case study that the joint efforts of the theatre group with government departments and non-government organisations has the capacity to be quite powerful. As a class, discuss what you think this statement means? What roles do you think the theatre group, government departments and non-governments should play? It is the year 2025. You have been asked to research the health status of women and young people in Vanuatu. As part of your brief, you must describe the status of their health in 2000 and compare it to their health in 2025. What health programs are in place now? Provide reasons for your findings. What do you think you will discover? Explain in 500 words. Can you think of how theatre could be used to disseminate information about health issues in your community? What background information would need to be gathered? Who would be targeted? How successful do you think it would be? Write a journal on what you have learnt from this unit of work. These are your private thoughts so they could include words, pictures, colours or symbols.   Top © Commonwealth of Australia