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Learning Objectives

  • Define civic virtue
  • Identify how rules encourage civic virtue
  • Discuss how practicing civic virtue helps everyone
  • Provide examples to answer the question: “How do rules help us practice civic virtue?”

Overview

Historians learn from each other. Teach your young historians to make good choices by practicing civic virtue. In this lesson, students will consider the purpose of classroom rules through pictures and examples. They will draw on what they learn in the lesson and their personal experiences to answer the mystery question: How do rules help us practice civic virtue?

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