Basic Citizenship KS4: Empowerment and Advocacy

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Age Range: KS4

Empower your students with worksheets which improve confidence and communication, develop imagination, introduce analysis techniques, and encourage positive change. Particularly helpful for students with learning difficulties.

Topics include: Personal qualities and values; Rules; Social change; Trustworthiness; Crime; When and how to say no; The environment; Animal rights; Childrens rights; The elderly; Role models; Faith; Work experience; Discrimination; UK political system; Listening skills.

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Size: 66 Pages
ISBN: 978 1 86025 391 1
Author(s): Angela Walker
Code: BCKE
Popularity rank: 333

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Contents List

LESSONS

7 PERSONAL QUALITIES Students explore their own personal qualities and values, and those of their friends.
9 MY FAMILY Students explore their family life, and make a family tree.
11 RULES! RULES! RULES! This page looks at the costs and benefits of having rules.
13 PAST AND PRESENT Students are encouraged to think about social changes over the last 50 years.
15 LOYALTY AMONG FRIENDS Looks at the nature of friendships and how they change.
17 DO YOU WANNA BE IN MY GANG? Investigates the nature of gangs and encourages positive alternatives.
19 CAN YOU BE TRUSTED? Looks at trustworthiness. Asks students what they would do in different situations.
21 VANDALISM Centres on a police visit aimed at reducing vandalism.
23 POLICE AND THE PUBLIC Looks into causes of crime and encourages a positive attitude towards the law.
25 KEEPING SAFE Poses dangerous situations. Aims to help students know when and how to say 'No'.
27 SPEAK, BE HEARD AND COMMUNICATE A paired exercise to encourage communication skills, especially listening.
29 AGENDA 21 Students design a poster to develop environmental awareness.
31 BITE BACK, BE HEALTHY Students look at the benefits of healthy diet and exercise.
33 ANIMAL RIGHTS Encourages students to think about cruelty to animals and about animal rights.
35 PETS IN THE FAMILY Looks at the benefits and responsibilities of pet ownership. Focuses on a guest speaker.
37 CHANGING TIMES Encourages students to think of lifestyle change as normal and inevitable.
39CHILDREN'S RIGHTS Students create a display to help them think about the nature of children's rights.
41 IN THE NEWS An exercise in group co-operation and planning. Students design and produce a newsletter.
43 RESPECT FOR THE ELDERLY Discourages negative stereotyping of the elderly and examines what they have to offer.
45 ROLE MODELS Focuses on a news story about 'runaways' to investigate the influence of role models.
47 FAITH Students consider the importance of faith, devising rules for a new religion.
49 EXPERIENCE WORK This page prepares students for work experience.
51 DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE Roleplay scenarios help students to consider why discrimination at work is wrong, and how to deal with it.
53 POLITICS Gives basic information on the UK political system and makes students think about the process of legislation.
55 WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK? Students design, plan and conduct a survey.
57 MEN AND WOMEN Looks at the pros and cons of changing gender roles.
59 ADVOCATE FOR CHANGE Encourages students to think of possible changes to the school, and to justify them.
61 REFLECTIONS A concluding lesson in which students reflect on what they have learned and how they have changed.

APPENDICES

62 (1) FLASHCARD WORDS For use with PERSONAL QUALITIES, page 7.
63 (2) WHO DOES WHAT? For use with MY FAMILY, page 9.
64 (3) DANGEROUS SITUATIONS For use with KEEPING SAFE, page 25.
65 (4) ANIMALS For use with ANIMAL RIGHTS, page 33.
66 (5) AM I? For use with EXPERIENCE WORK, page 49.
67 (6) QUESTIONNAIRE For use with REFLECTIONS, page 61.