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Year 7 - Citizenship

What can we do as citizens to protect the rights of others?

What rights should all children have?

Unit Summary

This unit introduces what rights we are all entitled to and how citizens can protect their rights. Pupils look in more depth at the right to health and the right to accurate information.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to explain what we can do as citizens to protect the rights of others.

Key Notes

  • The UNCRC protects children's rights in 196 countries, setting guidelines to safeguard their wellbeing worldwide.
  • Advocacy skills like lobbying MPs, petitioning and campaigning can help ensure children's rights are protected.
  • Listening to children allows their voices to influence decisions and empowers others to protect their rights.
  • Active citizenship includes fundraising, social media campaigns and charity auctions to support children's rights.
  • Working with changemakers like MPs and councillors is a powerful way to advocate for and protect children's rights.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • right: something we are entitled to by law
  • advocacy: representing or supporting a person or an organisation publicly by writing, speaking or taking action on behalf of that person or organisation

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • We are powerless to protect the rights of others until we are adults.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

The UNCRC protects children's rights in 196 countries, setting guidelines to safeguard their wellbeing worldwide. Advocacy skills like lobbying MPs, petitioning and campaigning can help ensure children's rights are protected.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'right'

something we are entitled to by law.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: We are powerless to protect the rights of others until we are adults. Correction: Children can protect the rights of others by using active citizenship methods.

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