Reviews of resources

teacher with two pupils and lots of resourcesOver the last few months we have collected some of the resources available for teaching Citizenship which are free.

Here are the reviews of six of them as printable versions, plus one review on screen below.

If you have come across a resource which you feel is worthwhile, please let us have details of it, and where it can be obtained. Please contact Jenny Wales.

Get into Citizenship, GCSE/KS4

This forms part of a series and has been well received by our reviewer. For the full report, please download her comments from the right-hand column.

Citizen's Express:

www.citizens-express.org

Although this site is primarily for KS4, it could be used with high ability KS3 students. It is well designed, easy to navigate and has useful links that support the activities.

The activities have been designed to be delivered as a paper/printable version, important for schools that have limited IT resources. The lesson plans and the resource worksheets are well designed giving detailed information/ guidance for students on 'what to do' and 'how to do it' and are supported by good on-line external links.

There is good teacher guidance on preparation and resources required. Discussion triggers help students to get started on some very complex issues. Time allocation is sufficient for the more able groups, but needs to be adapted for other groups. Some tasks will require much support.

These resources could be managed by non-specialist teachers, but they would need to do a lot of planning and background reading to manage some activities.

So a word of caution:

Prepare well and do not expect students to log on and work through the on-line material on their own!