Detailed lesson on how Parliament interacts with the executive within the UK government.
Students will examine how backbench MPs and peers interact and check executive power, assessing their relative importance.
There are several detailed tasks on the role of select committees, with a strong emphasis on the Public Accounts Committee, Departmental Select Committee, Backbench Business Committee and Liaison Committee.
There is a research task on the role of the opposition and accompanying tasks. There is also an article form the Huffington Post on Jeremy Corbyn and a Channel 4 documentary examining Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Opposition.
Lessons from The Knowledge House are specially planned to meet the exacting standards of the new A-level politics specification.
Each lesson has been planned using content taken from the three approved textbooks from Hodder and Pearson and media sources. However, there is no requirement to have a textbook for the completion of these lessons as they come with extensive information sheets and tasks for students to complete.
Resources have numerous extension tasks, many of which can be completed for homework.
Please email info@theknowledgehouse.co.uk if you have any questions, queries or comments.
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Very good well made resources for student centred learning, teacher answer sheets would be helpful
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