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What influences us?

Citizenship is all about making decisions for ourselves but we are all influenced by others. This lesson helps students to recognise this and work out what they really think.

Welcome to Citizenship Teacher's library of lesson plans and resources

Ready, steady ... go, go, go!

Here it is, suddenly - a new term, a new curriculum, new classes ... With luck, you'll have a shiny new classroom all of your own, an even shinier set of new stationery and generally be raring to go. Alternatively ... you could be forgiven for feeling just a tiny bit panicked.

Fear not. You've got back-up. If you're pressed for time (and who isn't?) or you're new to the subject, you'll find Citizenship Teacher a source of instantly useable, up-to-date, practical lessons. And then, as soon as you've got a bit of steam up, you'll find that you want to adapt them a little - personalise, differentiate, pick and mix. No more starting from scratch or reinventing the wheel.

First things first ...

A Citizenshipteacher favourite!

 

Check out our favourite lesson plans and resources - all chosen by Citizenship Teacher's editor, Jenny Wales. We love these ones!

 

Teachit Timer

Download the Teachit Timer to your desktop. A free gift for all our visitors, it's designed to help you manage timed classroom activities - but it has, we're finding, an array of uses! Hide the clock for a shock attention grabber, or display it on the whiteboard for an instantly alert and engaged class. Choose your deadline and a final alert sound (we particularly like the dog barking) and you're away!


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Citizenship Teacher in a nutshell

Tried and trusted lesson plans and resources

Planning interesting, informative lessons for Citizenship can take hours, especially if you’re a non-specialist.  Citizenship Teacher gives you access to lesson plans and resources right across the new Citizenship curriculum.  They’re engaging, up-to-date and tried and tested – because they come from real teachers working in real classrooms.   And the collection is ever-growing, with new lesson plans and resources appearing each month. All our lessons are free to browse in PDF format.

Video clips and IWB activities

Video clips from Sky News are an integral part of many of our lessons – and as well as viewing them on the site, you can save them to your computer, to play when you’re no longer online.  Our range of whizzy interactive resources and applications will help bring further pzazz to your lessons. 

The freedom and flexibility of editable content

Our resources are editable.  In the past you’d either have had to make do with a resource that nearly does the job but is not quite right for your students or situation, or embark on complex work with scissors, glue, tippex and a photocopier.  At Citizenship Teacher, we like to make things easier in practice by publishing all of our resources in customisable MS Office formats. The result? It's simple to take our resources and make them your own. In this we are unique.  In addition, these same resources can be displayed on a whiteboard or accessed via a computer suite.

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We’re proud that not only can we save hard-pressed teachers precious time – we can also provide financial rewards for resource writers. If you’d like to share the fruits of your labour and join our contributing team, please get in touch.

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