Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 21: People and the environment
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Section 1: How do local environmental issues affect our community? What are our rights and responsibilities?
Children should learn:
- about a topical local environmental issue
- to contribute to exploratory class discussion
- to analyse a range of sources of information
- to use their imagination to consider other people's experiences
- to consider the importance of resolving conflict fairly
- to justify opinions orally and/or in writing
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Section 2: How can we weigh up the arguments?
Children should learn:
- about the impact of local action on the wider environment
- about the concept of sustainability
- to contribute to structured group discussion
- to use their imagination to consider other people's experiences and to think about, express and explain views that are not their own
- to understand the terms 'rights', 'responsibilities', 'authority' and 'power'
- to evaluate arguments and draw their own conclusions
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Section 3: Why is it important to weigh up the arguments?
Children should learn:
- about different points of views on the issues they have investigated
- to contribute to group and class discussion
- to justify opinions
- to negotiate responsibly
- to reflect on the process of negotiation and participation (NSE)
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Section 4: What have we learnt?
Children should learn:
- about the legal and human rights and responsibilities
- about the importance of resolving conflict fairly
- about the significance of the media in society
- to reflect on what they have learnt and communicate their views with a range of different target audiences
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