A Good Citizen

How to be a Good Citizen?

Unit Overview:

• The students will learn that good citizens do their part to make their community a good place and that they have the power to make a difference in the world.

• The students will reach these goals by taking responsibility and working collaboratively in groups to create rules for a new resource that will be added to the classroom.

• The students will produce a project to better the world (recycling and conservation).

• The students will meet and communicate with leaders in the school.

What is a good citizen?

• Merriam-Webster dictionary defines citizenship as “the status of being a citizen as well as a membership in a community and the quality of an individual’s response to membership in a community.

• It is compassion for people, animals and the environment

What activities in daily life can we do to become great citizens?

• List your thoughts.• Think of ways you can become a

good citizen.• What do you already do?

• Time for Citizenship• http://www.timeforcitizenship.

org/

How can we make a difference in the world?

• What can be recycled?

• How can trash and pollution affect the world?

Recycling is not only important in your home BUT for the whole world.

How do authority figures help us?

• Who is an authority figure?

• How should we treat authority figures?

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What is project based learning?

• Project based learning is a student centered instructional model. It develops content knowledge and skills that tie content standards and higher-order thinking to real world context.

21st Century Skills

• In this unit students will meet the 21st century skills:– Accountability and adaptability– Communications skills– Creative and intellectual curiosity– Critical thing and systems thinking– Interpersonal and collaborative skills– Problem identification, formulation, and

solution– Self-direction– Social responsibility

Assessment:

• Before project work– Questioning– K-W-L– Picture journals

• Students work on projects and complete tasks– Presentation rubric (rules for new resource and recycling

project)– Questioning– Group and self assessment

• After project work is completed– K-W-L presentations– Questioning– Reflection– Group conference