Analysing the impacts of Brexit

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 politics and social studies.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Sarah Overton and Joël Reland, political researchers in the UK in a Changing Europe research group. They are providing impartial analysis about the impacts of Brexit.

• This resource also contains an interview with Sarah and Joël and offers an insight into careers in political science. If your students have questions for Sarah and Joël, they can send them to them online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Sarah and Joël will reply!

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Sarah and Joël’s research and challenges them to remain impartial while they conduct a debate about a current topical issue.

• An animation about Sarah and Joël’s work is available through the weblink, along with a downloadable script.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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