2024 UK General Election

Lesson designed to use as a KS3 geography lesson, but suitable for KS4 and to use in other subjects. Focus on manifestos in key policy areas for main 5 parties in England - Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, Greens, and Reform. PowerPoint and short workbook included.

Tiered learning objectives to differentiate to suit all abilitities:

• To know how we elect a government and why it is important.
• To understand the purpose of the government and how their decisions may affect our lives.
• To be able to evaluate the policies of different political parties in their importance and effectiveness.

Extensive key word list to for all terminology election based.

Lesson struture:

• Starter to judge prior knowledge of elections and UK government.
• Overview of how general elections work in the UK and the results of the 2019 general election.
• Introduction to types of tax and why tax is a hot topic in general elections.
• Introduction to leaders of key polictical parties in England and the UK.
• Policy ranking task from manifestos of Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, Greens, and Reform. Students will be asked to rank policies for these parties in the categories of economy, education, health, immigration, crime, environment, and defence. This is done ‘blind’ so students can judge which party they most align to without bias, with which parties the policies belong to revelaed afterwards.
• Extension task of extented writing focusing on expaning why their top ranked policies are important and why they will be beneficial for people living in the UK.