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Citizenship & Participation

Citizen Me

6-8
One class period
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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to...

 

  • Define citizenship on five levels (home, school, city, state, nation).
  • Describe key rights and responsibilities of citizens.
  • Identify the source of rights and responsibilities at each level of citizenship.
  • Recognize conflict between rights and responsibilities.
  • Suggest examples of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in their own lives.

 

 

 

 

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Overview

Students learn that they are citizens at many levels of society: home, school, city, state, and nation! Students create a graphic organizer that diagrams citizen rights and responsibilities at these different levels of citizenship. They also learn the sources of their rights and responsibilities at each level. We recommend following this lesson with the iCivics lesson, "The Global You."

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