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Citizenship

For Students 4th - 8th
In this citizenship worksheet, students complete a true/false checklist about being a good citizen and complete discussion questions after watching a referenced video. Suggestions for writing and activities are also given.
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Community Action

For Teachers 5th - 8th
How does community involvement make good citizens? Use all or a few of the included ideas to foster a better understanding of what it means to be a good citizen. Learners will brainstorm community issues, discuss how to get involved, and...
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Citizenship Test: Principles of American Democracy, Questions 1-12

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Prepare your English learners for their upcoming citizenship test with this presentation. Addressing common questions about the American government and Constitution, this slideshow could be a good study guide for students who struggle...
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The Good Project Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Excellence, ethics, and engagement are the three E's featured in a unit that promotes good work among elementary scholars. Through discussion, reflection, read-alouds, activity worksheets, and written responses, participants gain...
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Secondary Citizenship: The Importance of Volunteering

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders define the word citizenship and explain what they think Dr. Langstaff meant by the question "Are you being a good citizen?" They are asked if they are active citizens. Students list acts they consider to be...
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Citizenship

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners reflect on characteristics of good citizens, examine democratic symbolism, create an award and choose an individual to receive the award as part of this lesson on citizenship. Lesson ties together social studies, language arts,...
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FROM STUDENT TO GLOBAL CITIZEN

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners develop an awareness of citizenship and how it's defined globally. They explore the cultural diversity of different types of communities around the world. In addition, they assess the rights and responsibilities that are...
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Effective Citizenship

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore effective citizenship. They describe the skills, attitudes, and actions of a good citizen. In groups, students brainstorm ideas for effective citizenship. Each group shares their ideas for what they consider to be a...
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Defining Character, With Help from History

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In a single, soundly-designed class period, high schoolers define good character, think-pair-share about thought-provoking quotes on character (More options would enhance the discussion, worth searching online for other quotes to add.),...
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Nominate a Classmate

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study what it means to be good citizens. In this government lesson, students nominate a classmate for being a good citizen and write a persuasive letter to the principal persuading the principal to make that person the citizen...
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Teaching Tolerance

Voting in Your Town

For Teachers 6th - 12th
A socially important resource focuses on voter turnout and roadblocks to voting. Scholars review resources on voting stats, watch a documentary, and participate in group discussion regarding voting in their local communities. Academics...
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Citizenship

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this citizenship learning exercise, students read and enjoy a poster depicting two students who are making the decision to be good citizens.
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Citizenship

For Students Pre-K - 5th
In this citizenship worksheet, students read a set of guidelines on how to be a good citizen, then complete a set of discussion questions based on a referenced DVD. Suggestions for writing assignments and activities are also given.
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Service Project Letter to the Principal

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students talk about being a good citizen and what it means to them.  In this citizenship lesson, students read, Arthur Meets the President and discuss the aspects of the book as they go along.  Students brainstorm a list of ideas on how...
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Pioneering Principles: Why Character Matters

For Teachers 6th - 8th
What does it mean to "be of good character"? What are the qualities that define such a person? The 1825 Colonization Law of Coahuila y Texas required that all new immigrants into Mexican Texas present documentation that they were of good...
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Advocacy 101

For Teachers 8th - 11th Standards
Want a change? Become an advocate. As part of a study of the responsibilities of good citizens, class members engage in a series of role plays that model how to lobby for change.
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Citizenship in the Nation Boy Scout Merit Badge

For Students 5th - 6th
In this Boy Scout citizenship merit badge worksheet, students complete 8 pages of multiple part, short answer questions about citizenship in the nation. They define, describe, and tell what it means to be a good citizen.
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Citizen Webelos Activity

For Students 5th
In this social studies worksheet, 5th graders fill out a questionnaire in order to obtain a Boy Scouts merit badge based around the concept of good citizenship using 17 questions.
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Citizenship

For Teachers 1st
First graders come up with ideas that make other students good or bad citizens in the classroom. In this citizenship lesson plan, 1st graders write their ideas in a chart.
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Character and Citizenship Education

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students analyze the importance of being a socially healthy citizen. In this character education lesson, students brainstorm personal traits that they think make the world a better place. Students compile their ideas as a class to...
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An Introduction to Citizenship and Sacrifice

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students are introduced to a simple review of citizenship and sacrifice though the lives of Washington and Lee. The lesson is portrayed as a play and fosters personal application opf the concepts revealed.
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Preamble to the Constitution: What is Good Government?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify what a good government should provide for its citizens, and link their ideas to those of the founding founders by analyzing the Preamble to the Constitution. They create a mural depicting their understanding of the...
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University of the Desert

A Plan For Positive Action

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Can one person really make a difference? As the culminating lesson in a twelve-part series, learners discuss how they can partake in an intercultural dialogue that can have a lasting impact on the global community, and how single...
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Are You A Good Netizen?

For Students 4th - 6th
In this testing netiquette worksheet, students determine if they are good internet citizens, or netizens, by answering yes and no questions. Students answer fifteen questions.

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