Lesson for my Year 10s on how the court system works. The video for Adam's Case is from the BBC Learning Zone.

Students start by watching a video (link is in the notes for the powerpoint) - although it is designed for younger students my Year 9 class liked it. Students then create an advert for Cadbury's Dairy Milk using as many key words as they can. There is additional information for Level 6/7+ on the second page of the task sheet.

NB The links for videos are in the notes for the powerpoint. This is an activity on legal rights. The starter is from a worksheet from the Citizenship Foundation. We then looked at current events that are going on to evaluate whether the law really protects our human rights. For more able students you can delete some of the questions and frameworks to allow them to work more independently.

Would voter turnout increase if 16 year olds got the vote? For the starter I showed them a graph of voter turnout and we discussed reasons turnout has gone down (I have a worksheet but I can't find it!). After doing the activities on the powerpoint, I used a video clip from the BBC's '16- Too Young to Vote' to get them thinking. Then I gave them all a speech bubble and we had a class discussion about whether 16 was too young to vote. The plenary I used for all students in one group, some found it a bit challenging. Plenary 2 could be used for SEN students instead.

This is a lesson where students investigate current issues in Syria and then discuss and form their opinions about it. It was developed for a short lesson with a lower ability Year 10 group so would need extending for higher ability students. The link for the video clip is in the notes section of the powerpoint.

Students evaluate different types of punishment to decide how effective prison and community sentencing are. All the examples are either from direct.gov.uk or restorativejustice.org.uk

This is for a short (40 minute) lesson with students on what caused the recession. It could be extended with some more discussion or a relevant news article. The links for the two videos are in the notes for the powerpoint.

Case study on the effectiveness of the UN, focusing on the discovery of Chinese weapons in Darfur. I used it with Year 9, as I am teaching the GCSE from Year 9, but it could be adapted for Year 10 and 11 groups.

This was used for an end of unit lesson on Women’s Rights in the 20th and 21st Century for Year 9 History, but could easily work for Citizenship or PSHE as a standalone lesson on this topic.