Cut out revision phrases to revise pressure groups and parliament for KS3.

• With your partner, read through the list of 10 new school rules • Show whether you think each rule is fair or unfair by either ticking the box marked ‘Fair’ or the box marked ‘Unfair’

Elections and Voting System: ALL: Create your own political party MOST: Understand what is meant by the ‘first past the post’ and proportional representation’ voting system SOME: Decide which voting system is fairer and would produce a better government.

Students will learn why children's rights exist. They will be able to explain cases where children do not have rights. They will judge and reflect upon why children’s rights are not always protected and what can be done about this.

Your task is to create a new set of 8 rules for school that are fair. They must be fair for everyone in the school community..... Pupils, teachers, parents, caretakers, office staff etc.

Must: C Grade Understand the importance of human right legislation Should: B Grade Identify how international bodies safeguard our human rights Could: A Grade Discuss these rights with reference to one country where they might not be guaranteed.

What are human rights? What do they consist of?

Human Rights definition cloze activity.

Imagine there is a plan to build a supermarket on an open green space in your community. Most people don’t want this. Answer the following questions.

Lesson Plan

Learning Objectives: To produce a table outlining the positive and negative aspects of human rights legislation

A crossword getting students to think about citizens and citizenship and what a good citizen is.

To decide what qualities make a good citizen; to understand why society needs rules.

A Lesson for government and politics students investigating the criticisms of the United Nations and it's effects.

Notes on the Constitution

The Age of Criminal Responsibility Writing Scaffold:I think that the age that young people should be held responsible for their crimes should be age .....

What is Privacy? How does Surveillance infringe on privacy rights? A card sort to start discussion.

Scheme of Work / teaching guide on Environmental Issues for Government and Politics

Learning Objectives: The student should be able to produce a written response about the positives and negativesaspects of CCTV

MUST: Describe the human rights that we areentitled to* SHOULD: Explain how our different human rightslink together* COULD: Discuss the importance of ‘everyone’having human rights