I'm a Head of Citizenship in West Yorkshire who LOVES Citizenship & Sharing ideas & resources. I would appreciate it if you would leave me feedback please as it will help me improve my future resources.
I'm a Head of Citizenship in West Yorkshire who LOVES Citizenship & Sharing ideas & resources. I would appreciate it if you would leave me feedback please as it will help me improve my future resources.
I have used this lesson with Year 8 & year 9 students. I use the easy read formats of all the political parties so they understand what a manifesto is and should look like. I have attached one as an example. You can usually find these easily when you google for them.
The project booklets are completed by each student and allows for self, peer & teacher assessment. This would need changing for your schools own assessment system but you get the idea.
This lesson usually takes about 3-4 lessons and I allow students access to computer rooms so they can research their policies and create things for their campaign. They then have to present their ideas to a panel (of teachers etc who vote) to see which party has been the most persuasive and won the class election. the best groups from across the year group then meet the local MP to discuss their ideas. Students LOVE this project and get a lot out of it.
I hope you enjoy it and I welcome your feedback.
I use this lesson as part of my Rights & responsibilities unit for year 8 where we start looking at WW2 and how it led to the creation of the UDHR.
I use this at least once a term with my classes when I take their books in as it's quick & easy to use showing students what they need to do to improve etc. I have got some of my more able classes to use it as a peer assessment of books too.
I have taught this lesson for about 6 years now as part of the rights & Responsibilities Unit in year 7. It always gets the students engaged and I would recommend it. It can lead nicely into active citizenship where the students have the option to form a group and campaign on the International Red Hands Day as well.
I welcome your feedback :)
My classes have been struggling with understanding how to approach the questions and understanding the pre-released information. These handouts are walking students through what to expect in the questions and it gets them using some metacognitive strategies to reflect upon their revision of topics and organise their notes in preparartion for the exam. There is a clear focus on Paper 1 but Paper 2 is covered.
I have created 3 booklets that I have used with my students. One looks at various sources based questions from the 2 papers. One looks specifically at section B of the A342 exam and the other contains past 12 mark questions for the A342 exam.
My students like having these booklets to help them practice the areas they felt weakest in.
I hope you find them useful.
I welcome feedback. :)
I created the end of unit paper using past gcse questions from OCR & AQA so that section A tests students knowledge with low mark questions and section B tests their ability to apply their knowledge to higher mark questions this gave students 2 GCSE grades (based upon the last year grade boundaries and allowed us to do a SWOT analysis of them in this unit). The resit is a combination of both knowledge & skills.
I hope you find this useful. Feedback is welcomed :)