selection of activities, revision sheets and consolidation materials for GCSE Citizenship (AQA) to use with the Active citizenship section of the course.
Rights and responsibilities KS2 or Lower KS3 PSHE Lesson. A one hour-long, very detailed, fully resourced PSHE lesson.
In this lesson, the students will explore the concept of rights. We will discuss a series of examples including the right to equality, freedom, free speech and having our basic human needs met. We will reflect on the relationship between rights and responsibilities and discuss the reasons why we have rights in the first place. The lesson includes a jigsaw activity, where the students match rights to a corresponding responsibility. The lesson also includes an information sheet, a video clip task, a main task that focuses on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and a Venn diagram plenary activity.
Created to fit the new DfE and PSHE Association statutory 2020 /21 guidelines, the lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, all editable with accompanying tasks and worksheets.
The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is designed to be ‘no prep’, so you can just pick it up and use it, although it is still adaptable should you wish to.
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UPDATED FOR 2025 British Values / Democracy and Voting Citizenship Resources, focusing on the different policies of the main UK political parties and how people decide to vote for them: Covers every aspect of policies (education, defense, health, economy, education etc) - the information is all written up in student speak, you don't need the students to have access to the internet to find them beforehand.
Well differentiated and detailed PowerPoint lesson with accompanying worksheets, clip links and questions. Perfect for teaching about political parties, elections, voting and policies. Suitable for KS3 or KS4. Lasts 2 hours if all tasks completed.
These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each.
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AQA GCSE Citizenship Paper 2 revision
Fully covers essential information for Life in Modern Britain and Rights and Responsibilities
Revision clocks with information slides
UPDATED for 2025! A whole year's worth of Citizenship resources! 41 (more just added for 2025) x fully resourced, detailed, hour-long lessons and units of lessons for KS3 / KS4 (in 20 downloads). Perfect for Drop Down Days, Citizenship lessons, British Values or PSHCE. If you purchase this you can contact info@ecpublishing to ask to be added to the live Dropbox, where everything is updated. You still have the downloads from here too :)
All are highly-rated EC Resources Citizenship lesson packs and units, with five star-reviews from Tes downloaders. All 41 lessons are complete with at least one hour-long powerpoint, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear LOs, starters and all are well differentiated to three levels throughout. These resources have been highly-rated individually by TES users, follow the same consistent format and are easy to follow for any Citizenship or CPSHE teacher.
There is zero extra work required, and the whole bundle follows lastest National Curriculum Citizenship stat and non-stat recommendations and Ofsted latest SRE/Safe Students guidance.
I also have a 1 YEAR'S WORTH of PSHE bundle (36 lessons) available here: 1 Year’s worth of PSHE
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I use all of these myself as a Head of Citizenship and I really hope you find them excellent value. I've put literally months of time into this to make these lessons top quality for my own school team.
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Citizenship Introduction Resources: Introduction to Citizenship: 1 hour KS3 lesson, powerpoint, clip, worksheets, differentiated. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each.
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UPDATED FOR 2026 : A 1 hour lesson on FPTP, PR and the philosophies of the main UK political parties. As required by the AQA spec (but also suitable content for other specs), this lesson covers:
1.The major political parties contesting UK general elections; key philosophical differences between the political parties operating in UK general elections.
2.The nature of the ‘First Past the Post’ system based on parliamentary constituencies; the frequency of Westminster elections. Other voting systems used in UK elections, including proportional systems and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Created for Citizenship GCSE - Politics and Participation - perfect for revision too. Includes:
1 hour PP, worksheets, exam practice question, clips, well differentiated and easily adapted. Made for AQA Citizenship 9-1 but suitable material for any of the Citizenship GCSE courses or could be used for non-GCSE British Values lessons.
This lesson has been planned for Citizenship AQA 9-1 : Politics and Participation, specifically spec point 3.4.3 Where does political power reside: with the citizen, parliament or government?
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I have planned this exam booster for GCSE Citizenship Paper 2 (AQA) to guide my students through key content, and how to tackle the exam questions. I am an AQA examiner for the last 8 years, so have added in advice, tips and prompts to support students including how to process case study questions, BUG the exam question and use PEEL as a response.
This is aimed at a one hour 30 minutes session, but may take a little longer if you get students to complete the exam questions properly.
There are model answers provided, a mid range, and a 8/8 response.
The second document is my 1 hour booster, which is before they go into the exam in the afternoon. This provides more of a tailored approach to the exam.
Both documents can equate to around a 2 hour session with students.
Paper 1 Booster here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13447814
Please review if you download.
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24 hours+ (around 140 resources, all worksheets, powerpoints and everything totalled up) of Citizenship GCSE 1-9 revision and lesson content. This revision + lessons Mega Pack also contains 2 x exam question generators. Used for AQA but content covered by OCR and EDEXCEL too. Huge bundle of lessons, revision booklets to be given out in the lessons or as revision materials later, past question practices, differentiated 1-9 activities, campaigning packs and a fun GCSE question generator.
Suitable for GCSE Citizenship 9-1 easily adapable (all editable formats)
Different level tasks for MA,LA or Core
Designed to fit Ofsted criteria for’ Good’ or above.
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A fully-resourced lesson (1 hour +) which can serve nicely as an introduction to Active Citizenship.
Learning Outcomes:
What is active Citizenship?
How can we be Active Citizens?
How could we get over our perceived barriers to becoming Active Citizens?
Key terms
Empowered, Motivated, Inspired, Drive, Know how
Each Lesson Pack Contains:
1 Fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Outcomes, Confidence Checkers, Assessment of Learning, Variety of Tasks, Video Embedded URL Clips, Engaging Premium Quality Slides, Extra Support Websites, Challenging & Thoughtful Questioning)
Assessment Opportunity (Confidence Checker)
The lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, variety of student facing tasks and comprehension tasks with questions and answers. These resources have been designed to be engaging, informative and pick up and teach.
This is a 15-20 minute assembly, PSHE or tutor time session covering what the Prevent strategy is. It includes some videos and discussion points around Prevent and information about how to spot signs of radicalisation. This was originally delivered to KS3 and KS4 but could also be suitable for KS5 (Ages 11-18, Years 7-13). There are no written tasks in this presentation, it is an overview of these topics in line with the PSHE and Citizenship curriculum, SMSC and Fundamental British Values. It could also be used in an assembly or whole school setting as a quick reminder of Prevent and Radicalisation. It can be lengthened or shortened depending on the timing of the session. The videos are downloaded so will never disappear. Students reacted well to this session and some important and interesting discussions were had.
All you need to teach the GCSE AQA! No planning or knowledge needed, you are good to go with all four units.
Downloaded by teachers over 50 times and counting.
This will save you hundreds of hours of preparation and work. This helps cover large elements of PSHEE and British values as well as giving stuents another GCSE. This can be taught in 2 years with 4 hours a fortnight.
Lessons have diverse pedagogical activities and styles that include group/independent work, think pair share, questioning, exam application and comprehension.
Some tasks are supported by the AQA Citizenship textbook.
Unit names:
Unit 1: Politics and Participation
Unit 2: Rights and Responsibilities
Unit 3: Life in Modern Britain
Unit 4: Active Citizenship
Unit Lesson Breakdown:
Unit 1: Politics and Participation
Citizenship and identity
Monarchy and rule
Local government
Voting and elections
Political parties
Government funding
Democracy and the UK constitution
Referendums
Review
Key structures and roles
Forming and structuring a government
How others govern themselves
How can people make a difference in society?
Key terms quiz
Unit 2: Rights and Resonsibilities
Laws
Why Laws?
International Law
Rights and Responsibilities
Rights and Responsibilities lesson 2
Rights and Responsibilities lesson 3
Rights and Responsibilities lesson 4
Change in Citizen’s Rights
Trade Unions
Employers Associations
Industrial Action
Dealing with Crime
Youth Sentencing
Universal Human Rights
Universal Human Rights lesson 2
Unit 3 Life in Modern Britain
Principles and Values
British Values
British Identity
Identity and Migration
Identity and Multiculturalism
Assessment
Media and Free Press
Free Press
Free Press and Censorship
International Organisations
BREXIT
International Disputes
NGOs Responses to Humanitarian Issues
Assessment
Making a Difference to Society
Issues of Voter Turn Out
MPs and How to Make a Difference
Assessment/Peer marking
Unit 4 Active Citizenship
Active citizenship: This explores the unit, what it entails as well as different methods that can be used to affect change
Impact of social action: looking at previous action and how it affected change
Identifying an issue: this guides students through areas that they may wish to explore as well as looking at primary and secondary research.
Planning: here students are guided through the planning process of what they are going to do to formulate a well thought out action plan
Evaluation: looking at other social action as well as their own to evaluate how effective social action is.
A set of 12 knowledge organisers which cover the three themes for the AQA GCSE Citizenship course:
Life in Modern Britain - British Values; The Media; International organisations; and Making a difference in society
Rights and Responsibilities - The Law; Criminality in the UK; and Human Rights
Politics and Participation - Democracy and the constitution; Devolved governments; Voting systems and major political parties; The make up of Government and Parliament; and Other government and electoral styles.
I’ve also included included a revision check list for the whole course as well.
A fully planned PowerPoint resource for Edexcel Pearson Citizenship GCSE Theme E Taking Citizenship Action.
This Powerpoint will take you through all the information needed for students to complete their actions. It is scheduled so that students can complete one slide per lesson/week and some tasks based on a workbook on the GCSE Edexcel Citizenship Facebook as well as the Edexcel Citizenship Today Textbook. They can complete their action as you go through the slides with them.
I have ordered the slides how I think it best makes sense, however, you are able to teach the scheme in the order that best suits you.
I have also attached an assessment and markscheme for this theme.
Please note, the Edexcel Citizenship Today textbook is needed for this theme and the workbook on the GCSE Edexcel Citizenship Facebook. If you need this, please email me using the email below. It is not my own material
If you have any issues please email me at missareandcitizenship@gmail.com
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I have planned this exam booster for GCSE Citizenship Paper 1 (AQA) to guide my students through key content, and how to tackle the exam questions. I am an AQA examiner for the last 8 years, so have added in advice, tips and prompts to support students including how to process case study questions, BUG the exam question and use PEEL as a response.
This is aimed at a one hour 30 minutes session, but may take a little longer if you get students to complete the exam questions properly.
There are model answers provided, a mid range, and a 8/8 response. There are also checklists for their campaigns included.
The second document is my 1 hour booster, which is before they go into the exam in the afternoon. This provides more of a tailored approach to the exam.
Both documents can equate to around a 2 hour session with students.
Paper 2 Booster here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13467867
Please review if you download.
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C-Consider if all rights are absolute
B- Understand that rights of different people have to be balanced
A- Evaluate different rights against each other
What is citizenship? What are human rights? Exploring the lives of children in five countries, students learn about their rights, taking responsibility, respect for others, and recognising their role in the global community.
Students complete notes/brainstorm activity to gain an understanding of what Citizenship is about. This could be done as a snowball task in which all students add answers to the question 'What is Citizenship' .The learning objective for this task is: Define and explain what Citizenship is.
Reading and Listening activities for the Global Citizenship/Politics element of the New Higher Spanish.
Listening transcripts are included but I hope to be able to attach listening files soon.