ID Project - Teacher Resources

This page contains resources used in the Identity Project all of which are available in either PDF or DOC format. You could also visit the Plan UK Development Education site.

“I've seen a big improvement in their ideas, understanding and the way they express their ideas. I've gone from seeing blank faces to kids with ideas - the kids have really grown.”
Stephen Beck, Togo

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Country Profiles

Core Lesson Plans:
Responsibilty, Rights and Identity Project

Extension Lesson Plans:
Responsibilty, Rights and Identity Project

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Country Profiles

The countries coloured in green on this map had schools participating in the Identity Project but you can click any country, regardless of participation, to download a country profile.

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Lesson Plans on Responsibility, Rights and Identity Project

Below are 16 lesson plans designed to gradually develop students’ understandzing of the concepts of identity, rights and responsibilities within a global context.

Targeted at key stage 3, the cross-cutting themes and flexible nature of these lesson plans make them suitable for use within Geography, Citizenship and PSHE curriculums. Activities emphasise group discussion, student-led research and creative thinking, therefore helping students to develop critical skills in forming and expressing opinions. Most of all the lessons were developed to be a fun and engaging way of thinking about issues that affect all of us everyday of our lives.

1. Nature and Importance of Identity: A lesson plan exploring the construction of identity and the importance of being able to identify oneself.; Word format; PDF format

2. Creating a Mind Map on Identity: A lesson plan and resource sheet on creating a mind map about your identity.; Word format; PDF format

3. Diversity of Identity in your country: A lesson plan facilitating an discussion on differing identities and how they manifest themselves in society.; Word format; PDF format

4. Many People, Many Cultures: This lesson is designed to get students thinking about what living in a multi-cultural society means and how their own sense of identity may be influenced and formed without them realising it.; Word format; PDF format

5. Legal and Personal Identity: This lesson explains the difference between legal and personal identities and explores how they interrelate.; Word format; PDF format

6. Conflicting Identities: This lesson gives students a chance to research real life situations of people living in majority cultures that are not their own.; Word format; PDF format

7. Identity Debate: An introductory lesson to debating exploring issues of identity, culture and rights.; Word format; PDF format

8. Identity Stereotypes: This lesson looks at stereotypes through the example of teenage stereotypes.; Word format; PDF format

9. How does Gender Influence Identity: This lesson encourages students to think about how gender influences identity and explores perceptions and stereotypes.; Word format; PDF format

10. Identity Over Time: This lesson introduces the notion that identities are not static but are fluid and change over time.; Word format; PDF format

11. Identity Cards: This is a lesson exploring government policies in identification in which students produce their own ideal identity card.; Word format; PDF format

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Rights and Responsibilities

12. The Desert game
13. Your Ideas on your Rights
14. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
15. Your Vote on Your Rights
16. Your Responsibilities, Your Actions, Other People’s Rights

12. The Desert game: A fun and unconventional lesson exploring rights, responsibilities, rules and needs.; Word format; PDF format

13. Your Ideas on your Rights: A lesson encouraging students to identify discuss and categorise their rights and comparing their situation with that of people in other countries.; Word format; PDF format

14. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: The objective of this lesson is to relate the student’s ideas on their rights to the UN convention on the rights of the child.; Word format; PDF format

15. Your Vote on Your Rights: This lesson plan is designed to encourage students to become more aware of young people who lack access to rights through an increased awareness of their own rights.; Word format; PDF format

16. Your Responsibilities, Your Actions, Other People’s Rights: This lesson makes the connection between the rights given to young people by the UN Convention and their responsibility to exercise those rights.; Word format; PDF format

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Extension Modules

An introduction to these modules is provided in both MS Word and Adobe Acrobat formats.
Extension Modules.doc (Word)
Extension Modules.pdf (Acrobat)

1. Natural Disasters
2. Health and Education
3. Children and Armed Conflict
4. Birth Registration
5. Taking on the Worlds Institutions
6. Taking Action

1. Natural Disasters: This topic looks at natural disasters and how they relate to identity and rights using a case study on the 2004 Tsunami.; Word format; PDF format; Resource Packs for pupils; Word format; PDF format

2. Health and Education: This topic explores rights to health and education and how they relate identity and birth registration using a resource sheet activity.; Word format; PDF format; Resource Packs for pupils; Word format; PDF format

3. Children and Armed Conflict: This topic examines the issue of armed conflict in relation to identity and the impact that this has on children. The materials here are more suitable for older children.; Word format; PDF format; Resource Packs for pupils; Word format; PDF format

4. Birth Registration: This topic outlines the importance of birth registration in access to and upholding of human rights. This is a good way of relating identity to rights.; Word format; PDF format; Resource Packs for pupils; Word format; PDF format

5. Taking on the Worlds Institutions: Here the world’s major decision making institutions are studied in order to familiarise student’s with them and encouraging them to engage with these institutions.; Word format; PDF format; Resource Packs for pupils; Word format; PDF format

6. Taking Action: This is a collection of ideas which the class and school can use to take action and make a difference.; Word format; PDF format; Resource Packs for pupils; Word format; PDF format

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Other Resources

Other resources you might find useful are the Hotseats Interviews and theTake Action! page

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