Superheroes and pants

Key idea

• Qualities of a superhero. What makes someone a superhero? Is it how you look or what you do that is important?

Resources

• Charlie’s Superhero Underpants by Paul Bright & Lee Wildish (It could be any book about a super hero really, I just found this one quite fun)
• A super hero cape
• Some superhero gloves
• Some superhero strength (a sign to represent it perhaps)

Starter

Ask children to show you their:

• Happy face
• Sad face
• Monster face
• Puppy face
• Superhero faces

At this point you could ask: Is that a superhero face? Why? Why not?

Main activity

Look at the front of the book and ask

• Is he a superhero?
• Do you have to look like a superhero, to be one?

As you read through the book stop at moments to ask the following questions

• Is he a super hero if he has lost his superhero pants? (when they disappear from the line)
• Can he still save people without his superhero pants?
• Is the yeti a superhero? (when you find out he is wearing the pants)

Extension

• Get pupils to put on the various superhero items, each time asking, ‘So are they a (real) superhero?’

Questions

• If you are wearing superhero pants are you a superhero?
• Can girls be superheroes?
• Do girls have to have a pink cape?
• Can you be a superhero if you hurt people?
• Should superheroes fight?
• Do you have to fly to be a superhero?

Relating it to people who help

• Are doctors/firemen/teachers superheroes?
• If you save lives are you a superhero?
• If you save animals are you a super hero?

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