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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore, using discussion, writing, and data collection, how different social factors affect civic participation and equality across the country and in their own school community. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify and describe characteristics of civic virtue. Following a class discussion, they create their own definitions of civic virtue. They write essays based on their own definitions and formulate conclusions on the state of civic virtue in the United States. They support their conclusions weith at least two examples. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze messages and values associated with civic engagement present in the media. They analyze the local community's promotion of values associated with civic engagement by conducting investigative research. They hypothesize implications of values associated with civic engagement on the practice of democracy on a local and national level. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students examine the role of citizen journalism, freedom of the press, and the First Amendment. They analyze the results of an Internet survey, discuss the ethics of downloading copyrighted material on the Internet, and write a news story. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students create a web page after researching what prospective US citizens need to study to for citizenship. They practice using a web page editor program. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students discuss how to protect the environment through civic activism. They watch a video about someone who stood up to the government to protect the environment. They also identify something in their community that could be improved. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students identify civic virtues that are needed to be a good citizen. They role-play a scenario to encourage students to identify examples of good citizenship. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students identify the civic responsbilities of those living in a constitutional democracy. In groups, they brainstorm a list of those characteristics of a good citizen. They participate in various scenerios to identify the responsbilities of others. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students begin the lesson by defining what a citizen is in today's society. In groups, they brainstorm a list of qualities and responsibilites a good citizen should have. They also develop and give a survey that measures the amount of citizen participation in government. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students participate in a variety of civics-related activities to engage in the process of democracy. They vote on issues relevant to the classroom, read and discuss newspaper articles, identify national, state, and local leaders, define key vocabulary terms related to civics. Full Review »
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