A very detailed comparision of different systems of voting (FPTP and PR) and electoral systems, broken down in a simple way for students - 1 x hour PowerPoint, worksheets, clips, well differentiated and easily adapted. An exploration of First Past The Post, Proportional Representation and the advantages / disadvantages of each. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship GCSE and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :)

One hour, fully resourced lesson (PowerPoint, worksheets, clip tasks, activities, all differentiated three ways) all about the Britain’s future after Brexit. The lesson is adaptable, easy to follow and fully differentiated. It could be used in Citizenship, PSHCE, Politics or Tutor Time. It is suitable for KS3 or KS4. This resource pack includes an hour long PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, templates, well differentiated activities, literacy focus tasks, clip tasks with three-way differentiated questions and information sheets. The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it. This lesson is taken from the EC Publishing Complete Secondary Package which can be found at our the EC Publishing website. You can also visit my Tes store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources for everything PSHE, RSE, RE and Citizenship. Find more lessons on everything from RSE, misogyny, masculinity and Andrew Tate to jobs, consent, stereotyping, employment and careers, dating, love, drugs, alcohol, vaping, sleep, mental health and wellbeing, extremism, pornography, gender and transgender prejudice, racism, British Values, living in the wider world, sexual health, equality and diversity, STIs, contraception, sex and relationships and much more at our website.

Citizenship resource pack - includes a 1 hour lesson with PowerPoint, clips, worksheets, case studies, differentiated fully -KS3/4. Everything is editable, engaging and easy to follow. This can be used either for KS3 or as an introduction to Unicef and their work for Citizenship GCSE. Many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :)

2 hours worth of resources, with PowerPoint clips and question sheets, info + source sheets, differentiated fully for KS3/4 or Citizenship GCSE. Lesson one investigates the EU, what is is, why Britain is leaving and the pros and cons of being a member of the EU. Lesson two examines the differences between refugees and asylum seekers, looks at the asylum process, follows individual case studies, investigates the opinions of the public on immigration and invites students to form their own conclusions based on evidence. 2 Citizenship GCSE 9-1 Lessons: 2x well differentiated 1 hour PowerPoint lessons with accompanying worksheets, clip links and questions. Suitable for Citizenship GCSE. Many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :)

UPDATED with additional exam practice! 2 hour detailed and well-differentiated lesson which covers the Edexcel Citizenship GCSE spec for Theme B – Democracy at work in the UK. In particular: The institutions of the British constitution: the power of government, the prime minister and cabinet; the roles of the legislature, the Opposition, political parties, the monarch, citizens, the judiciary, the police and the civil service. That the UK has an uncodified constitution and examples of how this is changing, including as a result of devolution and membership of the EU. The lesson includes a 2 hour detailed PowerPoint, information sheets, differentiated activity worksheets, differentiated challenge activities, exam practice questions and clips tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. The PowerPoint and worksheets are in the ZIP file as there’s a lot of content. The images have been uploaded to show a few examples of the slides in the lesson :) Teaching Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 5000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE 2020, RSE, Citizenship GCSE, Careers, Tutor Time and RE resources at my shop: MORE EC RESOURCES LESSONS

One hour, fully resourced lesson (PowerPoint, worksheets, clip tasks, activities, all differentiated three ways) which introduces the concept of right wing extremism. It focuses on the reasons surrounding the rise of extremism in the UK and globally, examining the different right wing groups and their ideologies. The lesson is adaptable, easy to follow and fully differentiated. It could be used by a Citizenship, PSHE or Tutor group. It was made for KS4 / 5 but could be adapted for KS3. This resource pack includes an hour long PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, templates, well differentiated activities, literacy focus tasks, clip tasks with three-way differentiated questions and information sheets. The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it. You can find many more inexpensive and free RE, Citizenship and PSHE resources at my shop: MORE RE RESOURCES This lesson is taken from the EC Publishing Complete Secondary Package which can be found at our the EC Publishing website. You can also visit my Tes store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/EC_Resources for everything PSHE, RSE, RE and Citizenship. Find more lessons on everything from RSE, misogyny, masculinity and Andrew Tate to jobs, consent, stereotyping, employment and careers, dating, love, drugs, alcohol, vaping, sleep, mental health and wellbeing, extremism, pornography, gender and transgender prejudice, racism, British Values, living in the wider world, sexual health, equality and diversity, STIs, contraception, sex and relationships and much more at our website,

11 pages of revision activities all with a focus on democracy, the development of UK democracy, political change and voting systems and different forms of government for these sections of the new GCSE 9-1 Citizenship spec. All these have been selected as stand alone activities from my Citizenship GCSE lessons and can be printed out and given as a 11 page revision guide which students can use at home, or printed individually and set as revision homeworks. Many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop: EC_Resources

One hour, fully resourced lesson (PowerPoint, worksheets, clip tasks, activities, all differentiated three ways) all about the rising levels of poverty in the UK and the reasons behind this. The lesson is adaptable, easy to follow and fully differentiated. It could be used in PSHE, Citizenship, Geography or in Tutor Time. It is suitable for KS3 or KS4. This resource pack includes an hour long PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, templates, well differentiated activities, literacy focus tasks, clip tasks with three-way differentiated questions and information sheets. The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it. Check out the EC Publishing website for full, affordable PSHE, Citizenship and RE Packages for all year groups including the new 2024 Complete PSHE Package. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk

A detailed and well differentiated lesson for Edexcel Citizenship GCSE 9-1 Power and Influence: What power and influence can citizens have? (Citizen Participation - Theme D). This lesson focuses on how digital democracy, social media and other measures are being developed as a means to improve voter engagement and political participation. It investigates the pros and cons of this in detail. The lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, information packs, differentiated activity worksheets, differentiated challenge activities, exam questions with peer assessment markscheme and clips tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. The PowerPoint and worksheets are in the ZIP file as there’s a lot of content. The images have been uploaded to show a few examples of the slides in the lesson :) Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Check out our Complete Secondary Packages here: Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE One Year of Citizenship and British Values Complete Year 7 and 8 RE Complete Careers and Employability AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 6000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

A detailed and well differentiated lesson for Edexcel Citizenship GCSE 9-1 - ‘Living together in the UK’ (Theme A). This lesson focuses on local government and services, the role played by both, how they are funded and operate and finally the distinction between councillors ad officers - as stipulated in the Spec. The lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, information packs, differentiated activity worksheets, differentiated challenge activities, exam questions with peer assessment markscheme and clips tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. The PowerPoint and worksheets are in the ZIP file as there’s a lot of content. The images have been uploaded to show a few examples of the slides in the lesson :) Teaching Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 5000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE 2020, RSE, Citizenship GCSE, Careers, Tutor Time and RE resources at my shop: MORE EC RESOURCES LESSONS

A detailed and well differentiated lesson for AQA Citizenship GCSE 9-1 : 3.4.2 What are the powers of local and devolved government and how can citizens participate? (Politics and Participation) This lesson focuses on local government and services, the role played by both, how they are funded and operate as stipulated by the spec. The lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, information packs, differentiated activity worksheets, differentiated challenge activities, exam questions with peer assessment markscheme and clips tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. The PowerPoint and worksheets are in the ZIP file as there’s a lot of content. The images have been uploaded to show a few examples of the slides in the lesson :) Teaching Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 5000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE 2020, RSE, Citizenship GCSE, Careers, Tutor Time and RE resources at my shop: MORE EC RESOURCES LESSONS

A 1- 2 hour detailed and well-differentiated lesson which covers the Edexcel Citizenship GCSE spec for the following: Theme B – Democracy at Work. How the regional list system for European Parliament elections operates; the impact of this on which parties are represented compared with UK general elections. Theme C – Power and Influence : Key differences in how citizens can and cannot participate in politics in political systems outside the UK: one democratic and one non-democratic. The lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, information packs, differentiated activity worksheets, differentiated challenge activities, exam questions with peer assessment mark-scheme and clips tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. The PowerPoint and worksheets are in the ZIP file as there’s a lot of content. The images have been uploaded to show a few examples of the slides in the lesson :) Teaching Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 5000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE 2020, RSE, Citizenship GCSE, Careers, Tutor Time and RE resources at my shop: MORE EC RESOURCES LESSONS

A fully-resourced, KS3 Citizenship lesson which investigates the UK’s foreign aid budget, how and why it’s spent and how the aid supplied helps developing countries. This lesson is great for Citizenship KS3 as it helps prepare students for Citizenship GCSE content, but it could also be used as part of a Human Rights drop down day or in PSHE / Tutor Time. The lesson is most suitable or KS3 / KS4 and is editable, so easy to adapt for your own Citizenship planning. The lesson includes a detailed, 1 hour PowerPoint, information sheets, differentiated activity worksheets, differentiated challenge activities and clips tasks with questions. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. The PowerPoint is in the ZIP file as it is large. The images have been uploaded to show a few examples of the slides in the lesson :) You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE 2020, RSE, Citizenship GCSE, Tutor Time and RE resources at my shop: MORE EC RESOURCES LESSONS Teaching Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with almost 4000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.

A fully-resourced 1 hour PSHE lesson which serves as an introduction to women’s rights today and investigates the question of whether we still need an International Women’s Day. The lesson includes a 1 hour PowerPoint, information sheets, differentiated challenge activities and worksheets, clips tasks with questions and a literacy / debate focus task. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. The PowerPoint is in the ZIP file as it is large. The images have been uploaded to show a few examples of the slides in the lesson :) You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship GCSE, Tutor Time and RE resources at my shop: MORE EC RESOURCES LESSONS

EDEXCEL GCSE Citizenship 9-1 Theme A Living in the UK: A 60 min lesson the complex identities of UK Citizens as required by the EDEXCEL spec. This could be used as a detailed introduction to the topic or a revision session. Spec covered: How identities can be defined in various ways (e.g. ethnic, religious, gender, age, social, cultural, national, local, regional) and the concept of multiple identities as well as the debates surrounding these. Includes: One 60 min hour lesson with PP, worksheets, exam practice question, 2 x detailed information packs, clips and questions and is well differentiated and easily adapted. Made for EDEXCEL Citizenship 9-1 but suitable material for any of the Citizenship GCSE courses or could be used for non-GCSE British Values lessons. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes). You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship and RE resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :)

2 hour GCSE Citizenship Revision Pack for Politics and Participation with a focus on elections, democracy, voting and devolution. This pack was originally created for AQA but can be used for any exam board and is editable. Through this double lesson, students are given information packs and use these to create revision games in order to test both themselves and other students on exam content. They are then invited to reflect on weaknesses in their revision in order to identify these for further study before completing a practice exam question as homework (peer marking grid included, so this can be used as a starter next lesson). Includes (in both PDF and editable word docs) Double lesson Information Pack Exam Practice / Peer Marking Homework Please leave me a review and I’ll send you any other resource of your choice for free. You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE, Citizenship, RE and RSE resources at my shop: EC_Resources

UPDATED with additional exam practice! 2 hour detailed and well-differentiated lesson which covers the AQA Citizenship GCSE spec for Politics and Participation. In particular: The institutions of the British constitution: the power of government, the Prime Minister and cabinet; the sovereignty of Parliament; the roles of the legislature, the opposition, political parties, the Monarch, citizens, the judiciary, the police and the Civil Service. How the relationships between the institutions form an uncodified British constitution and examples of how this is changing. The lesson includes a 2 hour detailed PowerPoint, information sheets, differentiated activity worksheets, differentiated challenge activities, exam practice questions and clips tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. The PowerPoint and worksheets are in the ZIP file as there’s a lot of content. The images have been uploaded to show a few examples of the slides in the lesson :) Teaching Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 5000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing. You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk You can find many more inexpensive and free PSHE 2020, RSE, Citizenship GCSE, Careers, Tutor Time and RE resources at my shop: MORE EC RESOURCES LESSONS

Introduction to UK Parliament lessons - 2x 1 hour Citizenship lessons all about Parliament and Law Making. Students will learn all about the Houses of Parliament, the Commons, the Lords and the different positions within, as well as how it operates. They will also discover how laws are made, how amendments are added and how there can be a ‘ping-pong’ effect from house to house before a new Act is granted the Royal Assent. Included: 2 x 1 hour PowerPoints, detailed and well differentiated tasks, clip links with questions, starter handout and worksheets . All editable and suitable for KS3/4 easily adapted for GCSE Citizenship. Variety of different level tasks for MA,LA or Core. Many more inexpensive and free resources at my shop: EC_Resources Leave me a review and pick any other resource for free :)

A detailed and well differentiated lesson for AQA Citizenship GCSE 9-1. This lesson focuses on how digital democracy, social media and other measures are being developed as a means to improve voter engagement and political participation. It investigates the pros and cons of this in detail. The lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, information packs, differentiated activity worksheets, differentiated challenge activities, exam questions with peer assessment markscheme and clips tasks. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. The PowerPoint and worksheets are in the ZIP file as there’s a lot of content. The images have been uploaded to show a few examples of the slides in the lesson :) Who are EC Resources? EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. Check out our Complete Secondary Packages here: Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE One Year of KS5 PSHE and RSE One Year of Citizenship and British Values Complete Year 7 and 8 RE Complete Careers and Employability AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 6000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.