Rights and Responsibilities

Citizenship

100

This is defined as being a legally recognized member of a community, a province, or country

Question: What is citizenship?

200

These are the two official ways a person can become a Canadian citizen.

Question: What are being born in Canada or immigrating through the citizenship process?

300

Families, schools, neighbourhoods, cities, provinces, and countries are all examples of these.

Question: What are communities we belong to?

400

A good citizen helps make their community safe, fair, and welcoming by doing these key actions

Question: What are: following rules and laws, helping others, solving problems peacefully, respecting rights of others and and listening to different opinions?

Rights

100

These are defined as the things every person is allowed to have or do to stay safe, respected, and treated fairly.

Question: What are rights?

200

Rights in Canada are protected by these so that no one can take them away unfairly.

Question: What are laws and rules?

300

 The right to learn, the right to be safe, and the right to be included are all rights in this specific setting

Question: What is school / the classroom?

400

 Canadian citizens gain the right to vote in elections once they reach this age

Question: What is 18 years old?

500

 In Canada, human rights belong to this group of people

Question: Who is everyone / all citizens?

Responsibilities

100

Responsibilities are defined as these kinds of expectations that help keep communities safe and fair

Question: What are actions we are expected to do to help our community be safe and fair?

200

Actions that citizens are expected to perform to help keep their communities safe and fair are known as 

Responsibilities

300

 Protecting responsibilities means doing your part even when it is hard, such as finishing your work or doing this

Question: What is following rules?

400

To make good decisions when exercising the right to vote, citizens have a matching responsibility to do this

Question: What is learning about important issues?

500

At school, students fulfill responsibilities by following instructions, participating, treating others kindly, and doing this

Question: What is keeping the classroom neat and tidy?

Protecting Rights and Responsibilities

100

Because rights give us freedoms and safety, rights always come with matching ones of these

Question: What are responsibilities?

200

If you have the right to speak your ideas freely, your matching responsibility when others speak is to do this

Question: What is speaking and listening respectfully?

300

If people in a community ignore their responsibilities, communities can become unfair and this

Question: What is unsafe?

400

One of the most important actions a citizen can take to help protect rights when something is unfair

Question: What is speaking up?