Year 10 - Citizenship
How do I inform others?
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 who you could inform about your issue and why this might be useful.
Key Notes
- An active citizenship report explains what you did, discovered, and the outcomes of your project.
- Sharing your report can help raise awareness and build wider support for your issue.
- It also helps promote the values of active citizenship in your community personally, within yourself.
- Share your report with peers, your school, local community, decision makers, and relevant organisations.
Vocabulary To Learn
- inform: to give someone information or tell them about something
- report: a written or spoken account that gives details about something that happened
- active citizenship: the process of learning how to take part in democracy and use Citizenship knowledge, skills and understanding to try to make a positive difference
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- That once the active citizenship project is complete, it's over.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
An active citizenship report explains what you did, discovered, and the outcomes of your project. Sharing your report can help raise awareness and build wider support for your issue.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'inform'
to give someone information or tell them about something.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: That once the active citizenship project is complete, it's over. Correction: By reporting about your project and sharing this with others, it can continue to amplify the issue and develop ongoing active citizenship skills.
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 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
- 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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