📣 Phase 5 - Propagation 🛠️ Eco Workshop ⏱ 10 minutes

Task 9 - Build Your Civic Voice

You have explored the issue, weighed the arguments, and taken a position. Now it is time to do something with it - create a real civic communication, the kind of thing a citizen would actually make and send.

Your civic communication mission
📣 Phase 5 - Propagation · Eco Workshop
You have explored the issue, weighed the arguments, and taken a position. Now it is time to do something with it.

In this activity you will create a real civic communication - the kind of thing a citizen would actually make and send. Your teacher has chosen the format for your class.
✦ Every output must include these three elements:
→One clear civic position (for / against / compromise)
→One piece of evidence from the lesson (fact or opinion only - no propaganda language)
→One proposed action - something a citizen or the council could realistically do
10-minute creation timer
⏱ Creation timer
Press Start when you begin - soft alert at 2 minutes remaining
Not started
10:00
⚠️ 2 minutes remaining - start wrapping up and prepare to submit!
Choose your civic communication format
How will you communicate your civic voice?
Select one format - your teacher may have pre-selected this for the class
✓
🎨
Civic Poster
Headline position · Evidence block · Call to action. Visual, public, persuasive.
✓
📝
Petition Card
Petition headline · 2-sentence justification · Specific demand to the council.
✓
✉️
Council Letter
5–7 sentences · Opening position · Evidence · Specific requested action.
💭 Personal reflection - no submission required
"If you actually sent or posted this - who would receive it, and what might happen?"
Take a moment to think about this. You do not need to write anything. This question is for you - to connect what you just created to what a real citizen might experience.
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What happens in Task 9

Students create a real civic communication output in 10 minutes. Step 1: read the mission intro (auto-marks). Step 2: start the 10-minute timer (visible in nav and in the timer section - turns amber at 2 minutes, red at 0). Step 3: choose a format (Poster / Petition Card / Council Letter) and use the corresponding creation tool. Each tool has a live preview panel. On submit, the output posts to the class gallery in real time. The reflection prompt appears after submission: "If you actually sent or posted this - who would receive it, and what might happen?" - text only, no input required.

🛠️ Three creation formats

🎨 Civic Poster: Headline (position, 80 chars) + Evidence block (fact/opinion, 150 chars) + Call to action (80 chars). Live poster preview with green header zone.
📝 Petition Card: Petition headline (max 20 words) + 2-sentence justification with evidence (200 chars) + Specific demand to the council (100 chars). Live petition card preview with blue header zone.
✉️ Council Letter: Rich text area (max 400 chars), 5–7 sentences. Sentence starter buttons (Opening / Evidence / Action) pre-fill the field. No separate preview - the textarea is the draft.

📋 The three required elements

Every output must include: (1) one clear civic position (for / against / compromise); (2) one piece of evidence from the lesson - fact or honest opinion only, no propaganda language; (3) one proposed action - something a citizen or the council could realistically do. The platform does not auto-check these - it is a structural discipline enforced by the zone labels in the Poster and Petition builders. Teacher assesses during gallery review.

♿ SEN Adaptations
  • Simplified poster template: pre-filled placeholder text that students edit rather than write from scratch (activated per student in teacher dashboard)
  • All creation tool fields accept voice-to-text input via microphone button
  • No minimum length requirement on any format - civic reasoning assessed, not volume
  • Petition card accepts voice-recorded audio post as alternative to typed text
  • Timer can be paused per student from teacher dashboard - does not affect other students
  • Reflection prompt read aloud automatically when it appears (toggled per student in accessibility settings)
🖨️ No-Tech Format
  • Students create their chosen format on paper: poster on A4, petition on lined paper, letter on plain paper
  • Teacher photographs selected outputs and uploads to the platform gallery after the lesson
  • Or displays them on a physical classroom wall as the "class civic gallery"
  • Teacher reads the reflection prompt aloud after students have completed their outputs
  • Optional: 2–3 students read their output aloud to the class before the final activity
📊 Teacher dashboard - gallery controls
  • Gallery visible on shared classroom screen - teacher can show it after all students have submitted
  • Teacher controls: highlight (border), pin (top of gallery), hide (remove from public view without deleting)
  • Gallery exported as PDF with all outputs, student first names (or anonymous codes), date and school name
  • Gallery accessible after lesson ends - teacher can use it as a discussion artefact in follow-up lessons
Phase 5 · Propagation · Eco Workshop
Task 9 - Build Your Civic Voice
- Format
10:00 Remaining
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Read the mission
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Choose format & create
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Submit to class gallery
Every output must include
🗳️ Civic position - for / against / compromise
📊 Evidence - fact or honest opinion · no propaganda
📣 Action - something a citizen could realistically do
All Tasks - Lesson 3
1
Who Makes the Rules?
2
What is Democracy?
3
What Voice Counts?
4
The Argument Balance
5
Fact, Opinion or Propaganda?
6
Rights & Civic Power
7
What Would You Decide?
8
Personal Discovery
9
Build Your Civic Voice
10
What Would You Actually Do?