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- 6th - 12th
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Students work on a 'campaign committee' to define civic issues that are important to them and their community. They write letters to city officials with proposals for how to address these issues. Full Review »
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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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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate how democracy in the United States makes civic virtue possible. They examine the rights and responsibilities associated with democracy. In small groups, they create public service posters that highlight these ideas. 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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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate the founding of early Colonial America. They research the economic, social, and political events of the time. The lesson uses guiding questions to scaffold students while conducting the information search. Full Review »
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- 5th - 12th
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Students research the responsibilities of Appeal Board members. After research and discussion, they model an Planning Board meeting and participate in a decision-making exercise. They research background materials, similar situations and their remediations, and present the scenario to the rest of the class. Full Review »
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- 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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- 10th - 12th
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Students differentiate between responsibilities of government at the national, state and local level. They examine forms and ways of civic engagement. Students recognize the possibilities and opportunities for participation in the political process and write an expository/analytical paragraph. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students discuss the validity of using the internet for learning. They compare and contrast the various strategies for learning when done online and in class. Students prepare a lesson plan for an online class and write a paper documenting their experiences with online learning. Full Review »
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