Theme E planning sheet.
Your Full name:
Your project name:
Date:
Theme E
‘Taking Citizenship Action’ campaign
Exam board requirement column
Task 1
Identify an issue, form a team and carry out
initial research.
Identify an issue, problem, cause of social
need that relates to citizenship concepts and
issues studied as part of the course.
Understand the range of methods and
approaches relevant to citizenship actions
that can be used by governments,
organizations, groups and individuals to
address citizenship issues in society.
Form a team and start to research possible
elements of the activity.
Column for students to fill in. You must fill this column in on your own with
your own words/handwriting even though you are working in a team
YOUR ARE FILLING OUT THIS COLUMN NOT THE ONE ON THE LEFT. There is
space beneath each green section heading for you to write. The first one is
thinking about who your team members are.
You will choose your team members in the final week beginning 7th Feb.
Team members (4 – 6 people):
Team leader:
What is the citizenship issue you are going to be campaigning about?
(What issue are you going to try to change in the society?)
Now you must find 2 pieces of research (from an online article or book or
newspaper) for evidence that your issue really exists and is a problem.
What 2 pieces of research did you find?
A method that the UK government can use to tackle the issue:
A method that a UK organization can use to tackle the issue:
What can citizens in the community/society do to tackle this issue?
Task 2
Undertake primary research
Write down 3 questions that you can research based on the issue you are
trying to change in the society:
Identify and sequence research questions
relating to the issue, problem, cause or social
need.
Carry out primary research to answer
research questions.
What 2 methods of primary research can you use to answer the 3 research
questions that you just wrote above?
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Analyse answers to research questions to
identify evidence which assists the team in
deciding the activity they wish to undertake.
What 2 methods of secondary research can you use to answer the research
questions that you just wrote above?
Task 3
Represent your own and different points of
view
Show understanding of the issue including
their own opinions and the views and
perspectives of different people.
Review the evidence and research
undertaken and the different viewpoints
expressed, and consider why some evidence
or viewpoints may be more compelling or
persuasive than others. Consider the
different viewpoints and make the case for
what the team think should happen.
What is your own personal view on the issue? How do you know that your
campaign will tackle this issue?
At this stage you need to make a questionnaire to find out people’s views
on your issue then you need to hand your questionnaire out to as many
people as you can. Next you need to put the results of one of the questions
on your questionnaire into a graph/pie-chart/line graph/scatter graph.
Lastly you must analyse the pattern and the results of the graph.
At this stage you now need to also interview someone to find out their
views on your issue. Write down or record a voice-note of the interview.
One person in the team can make and hand out the questionnaire or
interview but everyone in the team must analyse it after on their own.
From your questionnaires and interview, what views did most people
hold?
Did you get a variety of different views from your questionnaires? Explain
some of them.
Was there a particular view from you interviews that stood out as more
persuasive or compelling? Why?
Task 4
Plan your action
Now it is time to think about your actual action plan that you are going to do to
make a change. E.g: A meeting with an MP about your issues/doing a powerpoint
presentation to a group of people/making a facebook page about your
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Identify who the action will target, setting goals for
the proposed activity and identify criteria for
judging success.
Consider possible methods and approaches to use
during the activity to form a clear plan of action
(including key steps, sequence and priorities),
taking account of the time and resources available.
Allocate roles and tasks to each team member,
anticipating any possible difficulties and how to
overcome them; establish a simple system for
recording decision-making and progress
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Your project name:
Date:
issue/putting up a poster/making leaflets and handing them out (you must choose
at least 3)
What group of people does your action plan target?
What action are you taking to target these people? (you can choose at least 3 from
any of the above in red or think of your own unique action plans)
What resources (items/things) will you need?
What role will each person have in your team? (e.g 2 people make the powerpoint,
one person does a poster, 2 people do the social media, one person write the
letter)
What are the potential difficulties of your action plan?
At this stage now you and your team must carry out your action in your own time
during your half term break in Feb. You can do the actual action in one day.
Remember to keep it simple and effective.
Task 5
Apply skills of collaboration, negotiation and
influence as they deliver the activity
Demonstrate team work and role-awareness in
delivering their activity, showing the importance of
collaboration, negotiation and influence in carrying
out the action.
And either
Organize and deliver an event, meeting or
campaign to advocate for the selected issue,
problem, cause or social need and that aims to
argue the case, raising awareness and
commitment by informing, influencing and
persuading the target audience.
Or
Organize and deliver a social action project, social
enterprise or undertake another form of
community action that aims to raise awareness
and commitment and create a social benefit
This section is the most important and about showing off your collaboration,
negotiation and influence skills. Continue to answer the questions in green below.
Collaboration- Did you organize a meeting for your team to discuss ideas? Did you
discuss each team member’s strength? Explain in as much detail as you can below.
Who did you need to negotiate with to carry out your action?
(emails/letters/presentation). Explain in detail as much detail as you can below.
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(resources, support, advice or service) to benefit
others.
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Which group of people were you able to influence during your action?
Explain in as much detail as you can below.
Did at least one of your 3 actions achieve your aim?
Task 6
Critically evaluate your own learning and the
impact of your action
Consider how and why their action did, or didn’t,
achieve its intended effect, assessing the success
of the activity in relation to their goals. Assess how
well the method they selected worked in practice
and what they might do differently in a future
course of citizenship action.
Consider the impact the action had on their own
citizenship learning, including learning from any
mistakes.
How do you know that this action achieved your aim? What evidence can you use?
Which out of the 3 actions worked the best and how do you know it worked the
best?
Which out of the 3 actions worked the least and how do you know it worked the
least?
What action would you carry out next time to ensure your aims are achieved
better?
What aspects of your whole project could you improve on for next time? You can
choose 2 from the following list or make up your own two. (people in the team
didn’t work as hard as they could/time management/carrying out the
action/choosing a different leader/organization/ research methods/allocating
different roles to different people/better planning before doing the action)
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