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KS3 - Rights and Responsibilities - 4 lessons
8 Resources available for download in this module
Four lessons covering human rights and responsibilities of citizens.
These activities for citizenship includes lessons on introduction to human rights, the history of human rights, and how human rights can conflict in the UK.
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Introduction to rights and responsibilities
Students watch video clips about human rights, and use case studies to introduce them to basic concepts.
History of human rights
In this lesson students look at articles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and American civil rights.
A world without rights
A role play lesson in which students use characters to act out a world where no human rights exist.
When rights conflict
Students are challenged to create a board or computer game about human rights, and complete a fun quiz testing their knowledge.
More about the Rights and Responsibilities Lesson Plans
As part of the Personal Well-being programme of study, it is important that young people learn how to become responsible citizens and how to make a positive contribution to society. In this series of four rights and responsibilities teaching resources we uncover the basics of human rights.
Lesson 1 – Introduction to rights and responsibilities
The first lesson in this series is broken down into 3 student activities, firstly establishing their current understanding of their rights, followed by a worksheet activity and finally a presentation of their observations.
Lesson 2 – The History of Rights
It is important to understand how human rights came about and what groups were fighting for in order to establish rights. This class discussion helps to clarify issues and the following group activity will demonstrate the learning on this subject so far.
Lesson 3 – A World Without Rights
A series of activities that delve deeper into the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Human Rights Bill of 1998 and the American Bill of Rights. With a greater understanding, students now explore different scenarios without rights?
Lesson 4 – When Rights Conflict
Using a series of case studies, students look at possible issues that conflict with human rights law. To demonstrate their knowledge, there are 2 plenary activities to complete this module.