Meet the Halsburys Activity

This is a classroom activity which we use to support students in identifying and classifying types of property. Rather than gift them a list of 'things' and ask them to classify it, we give them a story. They have to find property in both the words and the pictures, then classify them. This tests their understanding more effectively. It also gives individual tutors scope to decide which items of property to explore in more detail, depending upon what their students have found and appear to be interested in. For example, the cat and dog enable us to explore the difficult history around living creatures being treated as chattels by the law. The £20 note can trigger a debate around the chattel value of a piece of polymer plastic versus its intangible value due to the promise printed on it. The van and food at the end can be used to look ahead to the topic of investment, by introducing the idea of wasting assets and consumables. The comic strip was produced using Pixton software.