AQA Citizenship GCSE 4 units SOW

All you need to teach the GCSE AQA! No planning or knowledge needed, you are good to go with all four units. This will save you hundreds of hours of preparation and work. This helps cover large elements of PSHEE and British values as well as giving stuents another GCSE. This can be taught in 2 years with 4 hours a fortnight.

Lessons have diverse pedagogical activities and styles that include group/independent work, think pair share, questioning, exam application and comprehension.

Some tasks are supported by the AQA Citizenship textbook.

Unit names:
Unit 1: Politics and Participation
Unit 2: Rights and Responsibilities
Unit 3: Life in Modern Britain
Unit 4: Active Citizenship

Unit Lesson Breakdown:

Unit 1: Politics and Participation
Citizenship and identity
Monarchy and rule
Local government
Voting and elections
Political parties
Government funding
Democracy and the UK constitution
Referendums
Review
Key structures and roles
Forming and structuring a government
How others govern themselves
How can people make a difference in society?
Key terms quiz

Unit 2: Rights and Resonsibilities
Laws
Why Laws?
International Law
Rights and Responsibilities
Rights and Responsibilities lesson 2
Rights and Responsibilities lesson 3
Rights and Responsibilities lesson 4
Change in Citizen’s Rights
Trade Unions
Employers Associations
Industrial Action
Dealing with Crime
Youth Sentencing
Universal Human Rights
Universal Human Rights lesson 2

Unit 3 Life in Modern Britain
Principles and Values
British Values
British Identity
Identity and Migration
Identity and Multiculturalism
Assessment
Media and Free Press
Free Press
Free Press and Censorship
International Organisations
BREXIT
International Disputes
NGOs Responses to Humanitarian Issues
Assessment
Making a Difference to Society
Issues of Voter Turn Out
MPs and How to Make a Difference
Assessment/Peer marking

Unit 4 Active Citizenship
Active citizenship: This explores the unit, what it entails as well as different methods that can be used to affect change
Impact of social action: looking at previous action and how it affected change
Identifying an issue: this guides students through areas that they may wish to explore as well as looking at primary and secondary research.
Planning: here students are guided through the planning process of what they are going to do to formulate a well thought out action plan
Evaluation: looking at other social action as well as their own to evaluate how effective social action is.