Year 10 - Citizenship
How can I build my skills to become an active citizen?
How can I be a changemaker in my community?
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Unit Summary
This unit enables students to build knowledge and understanding of communities and develop active citizenship skills to make a positive change.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to identify skills needed for active citizenship and explain how these will help you.
Key Notes
- A range of specific skills are needed to be an active citizen and a changemaker.
- Skills include communication, critical thinking, analysis, evaluation, research, teamwork, confidence and resilience.
- They also include creating reasoned arguments, decision-making, advocating for others and persuasion skills.
- These skills all help active citizenship projects to be successful.
Vocabulary To Learn
- skills: abilities or expertise gained through practice or experience to perform tasks effectively
- active citizen: a person who actively takes responsibility, becomes involved in areas of public concern and tries to make a positive difference in their community
- changemaker: someone who wants change in the world and, by gathering knowledge and resources, makes that change happen
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Citizenship skills are only important for politicians, activists, or people with a lot of power.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
A range of specific skills are needed to be an active citizen and a changemaker. Skills include communication, critical thinking, analysis, evaluation, research, teamwork, confidence and resilience.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'skills'
abilities or expertise gained through practice or experience to perform tasks effectively.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Citizenship skills are only important for politicians, activists, or people with a lot of power. Correction: Citizenship skills are important for everyone, because even small actions help strengthen communities and make a difference. These skills help ordinary people stand up for their rights, support others and create positive change in everyday life.
More Lessons In This Unit
- How can I ensure lasting impact? Study Guide
- How can I evaluate my action? Study Guide
- How can we achieve our goal? Study Guide
- How can we ensure effective safeguarding? Study Guide
- How do I carry out my action? Study Guide
- How do I choose a topic to investigate? Study Guide
- How do I inform others? Study Guide
- What issues are there in my community? Study Guide
- Why is it important to consider the views of others? Study Guide
- Why is primary research important? Study Guide
- Why is secondary research important? Study Guide
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