Year 10 - Citizenship
Why is it important to consider the views of 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 how you can use the views of others to make your citizenship action more successful.
Key Notes
- Listening to others helps you understand diverse views and strengthens your arguments for decision makers.
- Considering different perspectives can improve your action's methods and outcomes.
- Team collaboration builds communication and teamwork skills for real life democracy action.
- Sharing ideas with your team makes your action more organised and impactful.
- Working with others prepares you for active citizenship now and in the future.
Vocabulary To Learn
- views: people's opinions or what they think about something
- collaboration: working together towards an outcome, or to produce something. A campaign group, for example, should support each other and communicate well
- successful: achieving what you set out to do or getting a good result
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- If you have a particular opinion or viewpoint on an issue, everyone in your group will think the same.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Listening to others helps you understand diverse views and strengthens your arguments for decision makers. Considering different perspectives can improve your action's methods and outcomes.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'views'
people's opinions or what they think about something.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: If you have a particular opinion or viewpoint on an issue, everyone in your group will think the same. Correction: This might not be the case, as diverse perspectives exist. This is why it's important to test this during primary research to discover whether your identified issue is shared by others.
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
- How do I inform others? Study Guide
- What issues are there in my community? Study Guide
- Why is primary research important? Study Guide
- Why is secondary research important? Study Guide
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