Year 10 - Citizenship
How can I ensure lasting impact?
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 explain how your project has longevity.
Key Notes
- Build systems, not just events, to make your project last beyond your involvement.
- Work with local groups to keep your project going after you step back.
- Inspire others so your message and impact continue without you.
- Active citizenship teaches you to make informed choices when voting.
- It helps you advocate for others and defend your own rights confidently.
Vocabulary To Learn
- longevity: how long something lasts
- systems: ways of doing things that keep going over time, not just once, such as a student council that meets regularly
- advocate: a person or group that defends or maintains a cause or proposal
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Once my project ends, there's nothing more I can do to make a difference.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Build systems, not just events, to make your project last beyond your involvement. Work with local groups to keep your project going after you step back.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'longevity'
how long something lasts.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Once my project ends, there's nothing more I can do to make a difference. Correction: You can create systems, inspire others, or build partnerships so your impact continues even after you finish.
More Lessons In This Unit
- How can I build my skills to become an active citizen? 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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