Year 10 - Citizenship
How can we ensure effective safeguarding?
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 understand how to keep myself and others safe whilst carrying out your active citizenship project.
Key Notes
- Safeguarding protects people from harm and is key during active citizenship projects.
- Keep yourself safe by avoiding dangerous situations or harmful content.
- Think about others' age and experience to avoid causing them distress.
- Always explain your project clearly and allow people to opt out if needed.
- Do a risk assessment with your teacher to plan a safe and responsible project.
Vocabulary To Learn
- effectively: getting the results you want in a way that works well
- safeguarding: a measure taken to protect someone or something or to prevent something undesirable
- distressing: causing a feeling of worry, sadness, or pain that makes someone feel upset or uncomfortable
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- That what a pupil finds safe and appropriate to discuss will be for the same for everyone.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Safeguarding protects people from harm and is key during active citizenship projects. Keep yourself safe by avoiding dangerous situations or harmful content.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'effectively'
getting the results you want in a way that works well.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: That what a pupil finds safe and appropriate to discuss will be for the same for everyone. Correction: We all have different lived experience, which can impact whether we find topics distressing, a person's age can also have an impact.
More Lessons In This Unit
- How can I build my skills to become an active citizen? Study Guide
- 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 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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