How can the law be used to address health issues in society? Lesson 5 of 6
Key stage 3 (ages 11-14) • Finance & The Economy • Lesson and support materials
How can the law be used to address health issues in society?
This lesson is part 5 of a sequence of 6 lessons addressing the key enquiry: How can political decisions impact the health of our society?
This lesson continues the focus on health and smoking in society as a way to explore how behavioural changes can be encouraged and sometimes enforced through the law. In the second part of the lesson, students recap how a bill becomes law. They research and create a comic strip, to demonstrate the journey that a bill takes to become law. Students develop their understanding of the connections between politics, the economy and the law as they learn that legislation as well as taxation can be used to help to create a healthier society.
Students will work towards answering the following questions:
- What is a bill?
- Who is involved in a bill’s journey to becoming a law?
- How would the proposed smoking ban become law?
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