Are you old enough?

Description

During this activity, the students discover different responsabilities, freedoms, and protections they have, depending on their age. They do so by analyzing various scenarios based on many situations young people face.

Educational objectives

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

Subjects and subject-specific competencies

Culture and Citizenship in Québec - Secondary II

Cultural realities and compulsory main concepts: Autonomy and interdependence - Autonomy.

Compulsory specific concepts: Self-determination, Freedom of choice.

Cultural realities and compulsory main concepts: Democracy and social order - Rights and responsibilities.

Compulsory specific concepts: Human rights, Responsibilities as a citizen.

• Competency 2: Reflects on ethical questions:
  • Engages in dialogue:
    • Uses methods to support own ideas.
  • Develops a point of view:
    • Identifies possible responses.
    • Evaluates the effects of responses on oneself, others, relationships and society.
    • Justifies own choices using criteria.

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.