PSHE and Citizenship and Social Development Resources
PSHE and Citizenship and Social Development Resources
Personal, Social and Humanities Education is one of Hong Kong's eight Key Learning Areas, and it now covers two renamed subjects: Citizenship, Economics and Society at junior secondary, which replaced Life and Society, and Citizenship and Social Development at senior secondary, which replaced Liberal Studies. Nothing below is written against either subject's official curriculum guide. What it offers instead is genuine civics, ethics and social studies material a PSHE panel can adapt: units on European integration, moral decision-making, social diversity and workplace communication, priced for a panel budget rather than a full curriculum contract.
See the civics unit →Where to start
Five Resources for a PSHE Panel
Pick the unit that matches the strand your panel is teaching this term. The ethics bundle at the end gives ten complete units for a panel that wants a whole term of material rather than one more single unit.
European Integration – Complete Civics & History Unit (Grades 7–9)
Conscience and Moral Decisions – Ethics Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
Diversity in Society – Opportunities, Challenges & Social Transformation
Business and Social Studies (WiSo) – Exam Preparation
XXL Ethics Bundle: Values, Responsibility & Society | 10 Complete Units · 30 Lessons | Grades 7–10
The honest starting point
What a PSHE Panel Can Actually Use Here
Citizenship, Economics and Society replaced Life and Society as the junior secondary PSHE subject, with full implementation for Secondary 1 students from September 2024. Citizenship and Social Development replaced Liberal Studies as a senior secondary core subject, phased in from Secondary 4 in 2021/22 with the first HKDSE examination in 2024, and it is reported as Attained or Unattained rather than on the Level 1 to 5 scale used for other core subjects. Three themes run through the senior course: Hong Kong under "One Country, Two Systems", the country's reform and opening-up since the late 1970s, and the interconnectedness of the contemporary world, stated here in the neutral terms the official curriculum documents use.
None of the five resources above are written against either subject's curriculum and assessment guide, and none claim to be. What they offer is civics content a panel can genuinely use: a comparative-government unit on European integration, a philosophy-based unit on moral decision-making, a social studies unit on diversity and social transformation, and workplace-communication material that fits the economics and society side of CES. For how a panel plans a full year around these renamed subjects, see Citizenship and Social Development: What Replaced Liberal Studies and What Changed and The Eight Key Learning Areas Explained for New Hong Kong Teachers on the Teacher Hub blog, or browse the Citizenship & Social Development Resources collection for more options.
A sequence that works
Building a Term Around Civics, Ethics and Society
- Open with a comparative caseThe European integration unit gives students a concrete government structure to compare against Hong Kong's own before abstract discussion of citizenship starts.
- Move to individual decision-makingThe moral decision-making unit shifts from systems to the individual, asking students to reason through a dilemma rather than recite a position.
- Widen out to social diversityDiversity in Society brings in migration, identity and social change, connecting personal ethics to wider social patterns students can recognise.
- Add the economics and society layerThe business and social studies unit introduces the economic dimension CES names in its own title, without pretending to be written for that specific subject.
- Use the ethics bundle once the shorter units run outTen units across thirty lessons give a panel enough depth to carry an ethics strand across a full term rather than a single fortnight.
Where it goes wrong
Misconceptions About Teaching PSHE and CSD
The first misconception is treating Citizenship and Social Development as Liberal Studies under a new name. The subject has different core themes, different weighting, and a binary Attained or Unattained result instead of the five-level scale used elsewhere, which changes how a panel plans internal assessment, not only what the syllabus lists.
The second misconception is assuming any civics or ethics resource can be relabelled as CES or CSD material once it is bought. General social studies content builds the reasoning skills these subjects test, but it is not written against either subject's guide, and presenting it otherwise misrepresents what a panel has purchased.
The third misconception is leaving the economics strand in CES to a single lesson because a panel feels more confident with civics content. The subject's own title names economics as a full third of the material, and workplace or market-structure resources like the business and social studies unit here fill that gap without needing a dedicated economics specialist on the panel.
Inside the files
What Every Download Includes
- Print-ready PDF for every unit
- Editable slides where the product includes them
- Answer keys for tasks with a defined answer
- Discussion prompts for open-ended ethics tasks
- No login needed to use any file
- Instant download, ready the same day
Everything on this page is independent teaching material for a general PSHE classroom. None of it is a CDC or EDB publication, and none of it has been vetted or endorsed by any examination authority as Citizenship and Social Development or Citizenship, Economics and Society material specifically.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Is this material approved by the EDB or aligned to an official Hong Kong PSHE syllabus?
No. These are independent teaching resources. They are not an EDB or CDC publication, they are not vetted or endorsed by the HKEAA or any examination authority, and they are not written against a specific Citizenship and Social Development or Citizenship, Economics and Society syllabus document. Teachers use them inside their own school-based scheme of work and decide what fits.
Does anything here follow the Citizenship and Social Development curriculum and assessment guide?
No. The units are independent civics, ethics and social studies content chosen for skills that transfer into CSD-style discussion and analysis, not material written against that guide's specific themes or assessment structure.
Is the ethics bundle written for CES-age students or senior secondary CSD students?
The bundle is labelled Grades 7 to 10, which sits mainly in junior and early senior secondary. A panel teaching senior CSD classes can still use individual units for discussion practice, but the bundle was not built specifically for either subject's assessment stage.
Can this replace a school's Citizenship and Social Development scheme of work?
No. A scheme of work sets the sequence, pacing and internal assessment a school has already committed to. These units supply lesson content a panel slots into that existing plan; they are not a substitute for the plan itself.
Do any of these resources use the Attained or Unattained grading CSD reports on?
No. Each product uses its own task and answer-key format rather than the binary Attained or Unattained scale CSD reports on. A panel applies its own school-based marking approach when using the material for internal assessment.
How does Life and Society relate to what junior secondary students study now?
Life and Society was the junior secondary PSHE subject before Citizenship, Economics and Society, with full CES implementation for all Secondary 1 students from September 2024. The change is in curriculum content and structure; these resources are general civics and social studies material rather than something written to track either version specifically.
Give the Panel Something to Start With
Comparative case first, individual ethics second, wider society third — genuine civics and ethics content, not a resource pretending to be an official guide.
See the XXL Ethics Bundle →