The Standards Site: Citizenship at key stage 3


Introduction		Downloads

Exemplar Units		Teacher's Guide

Subject Leaflets		Booklet of ideas

Senior Managers' Guide		Links to external sites

Schemes of work: Citizenship at key stage 3

The citizenship scheme of work consists of 19 exemplar teaching units that can be combined in different ways, supplemented with materials from other subjects and adapted to create explicit opportunities for citizenship.

Each title below links to the full online version of the unit. From here you can browse the unit or download the PDF or Word version. Alternatively you can obtain a complete set of PDFs or Word files from the downloads page.

Year	Unit no.	Unit title
7	1	Introductory unit: Citizenship - what?s it all about?

Units 2 to 9 provide examples of discrete citizenship provision that may be linked with other subjects

Year	Unit no.	Unit title
7-9	2	Crime
7-9	3	Human rights
7-9	4	Britain - a diverse society?
7-9	5	How the law protects animals - a local-to-global study
7-9	6	Government, elections and voting
7-9	7	Local democracy
7-9	8	Leisure and sport in the local community
7-9	9	The significance of the media in society

Units 10 to 13 provide examples of citizenship that may be delivered through other subjects and/or as discrete citizenship provision

Year	Unit no.	Unit title
7-9	10	Citizenship and geography: Debating a global issue
7-9	11	Citizenship and history: Why is it so difficult to keep the peace in the world today?
7-9	12	Citizenship and history: Why did women and some men have to struggle for the vote in Britain? What is the point of voting today?
7-9	13	Citizenship and RE: How do we deal with conflict?

Units 14 to 18 provide examples of citizenship that may be delivered through wider curriculum activities or off-timetable events

Year	Unit no.	Unit title
7-9	14	Developing skills of democratic participation
7-9	15	Crime and safety awareness - a whole-school multi-agency approach
7-9	16	Celebrating human rights - citizenship activities for the whole school
7-9	17	School linking
7-9	18	Developing your school grounds

Year Unit no. Unit title

9 19 Review unit: Assessing progress and recognising achievement at the end of key stage 3

Two additional units have been developed to illustrate opportunities to link work in citizenship and science. These units are available exclusively from the Standards Site.

Year Unit no. Unit title

7-9 20 What's in the public interest?

7-9 21 People and the environment

Note: The units can be used in any order. The unit numbers are to help with referencing and do not indicate the order in which the units are to be used.

The citizenship key stage 4 units are available from the citizenship key stage 4 area.