Are you old enough?

Description

During this activity, students explore the responsibilities, freedoms and protections they have at different ages. They do this by looking at various scenarios based on common situations young people may face.

Educational objectives

• Help the students understand thei responsabilities, freedoms, and protections from a legal standpoint.
• Develop their analytical abilities.

Subjects and subject-specific competencies

Culture and citizenship in Québec – Elementary Cycle Three

Cultural reality: Relationships between people – Collective life

Compulsory concepts: Rights and freedoms, children’s rights and parental responsibilities

• Competency in Cycle Three: Reflects critically on cultural realities:
  • Engaging in dialogue:
    • Supports own ideas
  • Developing responses:
    • • Proposes responses
      • Compares responses
      • Explains their choices

Duration:

Three 60-minutes sessions

Broad areas of learning

• Citizenship and Community Life: Promotion of the rules of social conduct and democratic institutions

Cross-curricular competencies

• Using information: Gatherinf information and putting it to use
• Exercising critical judgment: Forming and expression an opinion
• Communicating appropriately

Other resource

• Our quiz Are You Old Enough?

Free tools provided with the workshop

• Our poster Age of Consent to Sexual Activities.

You can order printed tools from Éducaloi on our main website.