Who, Why, What?
Curriculum Guide: social studies, RME, citizenship, literacy, language
Teaching Levels: 1, 2, and 3 (P4 – S3)
Citizenship Themes: political awareness, human rights
Date Published: 17/10/2012
Benchmarking for Scottish Curriculum
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Level(s) |
Outcome code(s) |
Objective of resource |
What do pupils learn about the SP? |
What skills will be developed? |
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| Citizenship Who? What? Where? |
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SOC 0-15a
2-16a
2-17a
3-15a
3-18a
LIT
3-02a/4
3-15a/4
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Series of teacher notes and pupil worksheets to extend knowledge of the Parliament and how it works and how people can be involved in it. |
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| Representative Democracy activity |
up to S2 |
SOC 1-16a
4-18a
HWB 0-09a
4-06a
3-19a
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3 different groups create a Scottish Parliament |
Thinking about the make up of the Parliament and the thought process of the design |
Team work, time management, group 2 = voting/democracy, decision making, communications skills |
| "I want" |
up to S2 |
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Wants and Needs, thinking about what is important in society |
Consultation, compromise and representation = what MSPs think about on a day to day basis; underpinning decision sin Parliament |
Reaching conclusions, decision making, hierarchies of importance, confidence and delivery, team work |
| Who does what? |
up to Higher |
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Match roles with relevant descriptions - understanding the different roles in the SP |
Different members have different responsibilities |
Estimation |
| Presiding Officer |
up to S2 |
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Finding out who the Presiding officer and Deputy Presiding officers are |
Building knowledge of key roles in the Scottish Parliament |
Research skills, using technology, source handling |
| Scottish Government |
up to S2 |
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Finding out which MSPs fill government posts |
Building knowledge of key roles in Scottish Government |
Research skills, using technology, source handling |
| Parliament values |
up to S2 |
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4 values, relating to pupil life and MSPs |
What the Scottish Parliament is founded upon, how MSPs are expected to act |
Literacy |
| Scotland Act |
Any |
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Devolved and reserved matters |
What the Scottish Parliament has power to make laws on |
political literacy |
| What does it mean? |
up to S4/Nat 5 |
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Matching key words to descriptions |
developing understanding of Scottish Parliament related key words |
Political literacy
Literacy
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| About the Scottish Parliament |
up to S4/Nat 5 |
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developing understanding of key words |
political literacy
literacy
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