Children's Rights and Child Soldiers KS3 Citizenship

A ready to use lesson (from KS3 upwards) to meet the National Citizenship Curriculum which can introduce rights as a concept or consolidate prior learning of human rights.

The lesson teaches students about child soldiers and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Students are encouraged to analyse why child soldiers are used as an alternative to adults and have to select and identify the rights being violated. Students are stretched to evaluate which methods of advocacy would be the most effective in raising awareness of child soldiers. Students are encouraged to collate research on child soldiers and to gather evidence throughout the lesson so that they can write either a letter to the Prime Minister or a National speech, to becomes advocates themselves on child soldiers. Lesson includes videos, short tasks that scaffold and build the learning.

Learning Intentions
-I can identify the human rights violations involved in using children as soldiers.
-I can evaluate a range of advocacy methods that would make a child soldiers campaign effective.
-I can adopt a range of sources, facts and bias, to argue persuasively why child soldiers is an issue that still requires campaign

Powerpoint-9 slides (plus a slide including a choice of creative homeworks-comic strip or diary entry)
Resources-Child Soldiers Case Study Questions Strips, Knowledge Organiser, Advantages and Disadvantages of advocacy methods (all made with Publisher)

PowerPoint and resources are in comic sans, with size 14 font and slides have a yellow background to ensure that it is SEN inclusive. The lesson includes differentiated learning tasks that challenge students to be critical thinkers. The lesson includes assessment for learning opportunities and develops wider literacy skills. The PowerPoint has teacher notes with suggested teaching ideas and questioning, as well as suggested timings. The Lesson and resources are non-specialist friendly.

Tried and tested lesson used by both specialist and non-specialist staff across inner city schools in the Northwest.

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