Equality Act & Protected Characteristics

Equality Act & Protected Characteristics
A new unit for PSHE / Citizenship Unit.

Contents
7 Lesson Packs (See below for Contents)
7 x Homework Ideas
7 x End of Lesson Confidence Checker Assessments
1 x Respecting Rights Quiz (Team Building Activity)

Lesson Topics

1. What is the Equality Act and how does it protect people?
2. Marriage & Civil Partnership Lesson (Protected Characteristic)
3. Disability Discrimination
4. Religion & Belief Lesson (Protected Characteristic)
5. Pregnancy & Maternity Lesson (Protected Characteristic) (copy)
6. Why are Gender Stereotypes harmful?
7. Equality Act & Discrimination

Each Lesson PowerPoint Contains:
• 1 Fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Outcomes, Confidence Checkers, Assessment of Learning, Variety of Tasks, Video Embedded URL Clips, Engaging Premium Quality Slides, Extra Support Websites, Challenging & Thoughtful Questioning)
• Assessment Opportunity (Confidence Checker)
• Teacher Notes (On some slides)
• Mapped against Latest DfE Guidance, PSHE Association Core themes and Requirements and the Gatsby Benchmarks in Careers Education

Sample Learning Outcomes:
To know the legal rights of a married couple, to understand the differences between marriage and civil partnership, to evaluate the reasons why people choose to enter a civil partnership
To understand how Equality Act protects religion, to recognise examples of systemic prejudice, to consider what it is like for minority religions
To understand rights of pregnant employees, to know what maternity and paternity rights are, to understand good practice in the workplace to support expectant and new parents
To understand why stereotypes are harmful in society, To understand why stereotypes are harmful in workplace, To know how to stand up against systemic prejudice

Sample Key words
Common Law, Beneficiary, Spouse, Sanctity, Protected Characteristic, Secular, Solemnised, Dowry
Faith, Belief, Mutual Respect, Systemic, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, Protected Characteristic
Sexism, antenatal, neonatal, SMP, Maternity Allowance
Glass Ceiling, Glass Cliff, Second Sex, Intersectional, Feminism, Norms, Toxic Masculinity

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