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Getting started on AS Politics - introducing constitutions

Ruth Tarrant

4th September 2016

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Every day this week I'll be posting a teaching resource or lesson idea for kickstarting your AS Politics teaching. The first resource is one of our favourites here at tutor2u, and has been a winner for the last few years at our Politics CPD events. The resource is called The Pirate Code, and introduces students to the concept of a constitution and the different formats it can take. If you can find a pirate hat to wear whilst playing the game then all the better...

You can download the Pirate Code PDF activity here and the full teacher instructions here.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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