October Activity – Rightful Citizen

1. Help students achieve their potential and develop them into responsible citizens by making them understand the balance between rights and responsibilities. 
2. Analyse the tenant of ‘democracy’ in several different ways— at their home, school, community and country at large. 
3. Skills learnt – critical thinking, reasoning, communication and collaboration 

Colourful/plain paper slips (Rights of students written on them), Blackboard, Chalk, and ‘Democracy Index’ Sheets.

Period 1

Time needed - 45 Minutes

Introduction (10 min)

Step 1- Game play (15 min)

Step 2- ‘Democracy Index’ Sheet (15 min)

Step 3- Debrief (5 min)

Step 1

Let's get started!

1. Explain to the students, the activity and the accompanying rules in brief. Tell them, that we as Indian citizens, have certain rights provided by our Constitution. Students also are entitled to some rights as citizens of India.
2. Teacher will be ready with the reading statements. At this stage, only ‘rights for the students' statement has to be read out loud and not the responsibilities.  
3. Divide the class into 2 teams.

1. There will be 7 rounds.
2. Only one right will be read at one time by the teacher.
3. For each correct answer, a team will get 10 points.
4. No negative marking.
5. Each team will have to nominate one player per round or students can raise hand to answer.
6. The teams listen to the right being readout and they get 1 min to guess the correct responsibility related to the right.
7. If a question is passed, 5 points awarded to the team answering correctly.
8. Teacher to be the timekeeper/scorekeeper and ensure fair play.
9. No hints or clues from other team members.

1. Each team will get turns to answer.
2. One member from each team will tell the answer (no student to be repeated from the same team).
3. Teams will then brainstorm and guess the related responsibility to that right. If they come up with a correct answer, they will score a point. Otherwise, it will pass on to the next team.
4. This process shall be repeated for the next team.
5. After 7 rounds are done, teacher has to count the points and announce the name of the winning team. She will also acknowledge the most important right voted by the students.

Note: The teacher can add more slips on her own if time permits

Step 2- ‘Democracy Index’ Sheet (15 min)

Let's get started!

1. Tell them, that today, they can explore their ‘Democracy Score’ of home, school and society where they can give rating to some statements after discussion with their teammates. This activity will be conducted in a group of 2 students each sitting next to each other. Quickly explain the process.
2. Share the ‘Democracy Index Sheet’ with all student groups. Please note that the survey is general in nature and can be conducted with all students. 
3. Explain them as to how to check ‘Democracy Index’ of their home, school, society/community and country based on the rights they have and give a score from 1-5 based on the rights they have as students (1– Strongly disagree, 2– Somewhat disagree, 3– Agree, 4– Somewhat agree, 5– Strongly agree)

Note: There is nothing right or wrong here. This is only to invite and gauge students’ observations and experiences on democratic practices followed by their family, school, community and country.

4. Ask them to calculate the ‘Democracy Score’ of all 4 places and find out which place is most democratic for you as a group? 

5. Collect score sheets from students.

Step 3- Debrief 

1. The teacher will debrief on the ‘Democracy Index Sheet' by asking questions like-

• Why do you have certain rights at home but not in school or country? 
• Why discipline and following rules are important for everyone?
• What were we trying to accomplish through the ‘Democracy Index Sheet’ activity? 

2. Teachers are requested to fill up the feedback form
3. Teachers are requested to remind students to fill in reflection sheets at home.

Democracy Index Printable

Rights Slips. Print