a lesson that gets students to consider where on the political spectrum political parties are.

part of theme 3 for aqa gcse citizenship

lesson 2 of theme 3 SoW -study skills focus

complementary powerpoint to the AQA Student text book

this can be rushed through in one lesson or explored in 2 lessons. It covers the aspects of the AQA GCSE for taxation & government spending.

I have taught this lesson to Year 8 students as part of their Human Rights unit. It follows on from the UDHR/WW2 lesson. The plenary discussion usually gives a great insight into their knowledge of other examples and they find it shocking that these things still happen.

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 :)

I have used this lesson with my Year 7 students as part of their Rights & Responsibilities Unit. They always seem to be engaged in the debates/discussions. I hope you find it useful and welcome your feedback :)

This lesson is a PowerPoint with worksheets etc. on the PowerPoint. I have taught this lesson for a few years now to Year 7 and it has always been received well. I would suggest that you say your door is open to them if they have found any of the lesson upsetting etc. However, my students have always voted at the end for this lesson to be taught again the following year.

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 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 have created a blockbusters game for some of the key terms in the current OCR Citizenship GCSE. I hope you find it useful. My students loved it and were REALLY competitive. Feedback is welcomed :)

I have used this with my current year 11 students as part of our revision for the exams and they have loved it. I hope you enjoy it. Feedback is welcomed. :)

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 :)

I have used this with my Year 10 students as part of the new AQA GCSE Spec. I hope you find it useful. Feedback is welcomed :)

I have used this lesson as part of the new AQA spec for Theme 3 and with my year 9 students as part of their Politics & extremism unit. I hope you find it useful. I welcome feedback too :)