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Enduring Understandings - important
ideas that students should carry with them
years beyond the instruction received this
year.
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Civic participation involves roles, rights, and responsibilities.
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Citizen participation influences the making of public policy.
Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions
students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.
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Standards
Civics 2: Students know the structure
and function of local, state and national government
and how citizen involvement shapes public policy
1. Benchmark 2D:
Students know how public policy is developed at the
local, state, and national levels
Civics 4: Students
understand how citizens exercise the roles, rights,
and responsibilities of participation in civic life
at all levels
1. Benchmark 4A:
students know what citizenship is
2. Benchmark 4C:
Students know how citizens can exercise their rights
3. Benchmark 4D:
Students know how citizens can participate in civic
life
Geography 4: Students
understand how economic, political, cultural and
social processes interact to shape patterns of human
populations, interdependence, cooperation, and
conflict
1. Benchmark E: Students
know how cooperation and conflict among people
influence the division and control of Earth’s
surface
Workforce Communication
COM1.0 Demonstrates the ability to receive and relay
information clearly and effectively.
COM1.1 listening-receives attends to, understands
and responds to verbal and non-verbal messages.
COM1.2 speaking-clearly organizes and effectively
presents ideas orally
COM1.3 reading-locates, understands and interprets
written information in prose and documents to
perform tasks
COM1.4 writing-organizes and effectively presents
ideas and information in writing
COM1.5 interpreting-delineates and analyzes oral and
written information and synthesizes information into
a conclusion
COM1.6 negotiating-works toward agreement while
maintaining position
COM1.7 persuading-communicates ideas to justify
position, overcome resistance and convince others
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Learn-Engage-Transform - Service-learning is a tool
used to contextualize learning by integrating relevant
service into academic studies. Students use critical and
reflective thinking skills to engage in an identified
community need, deepening their understanding of academic
content and larger community systems. Service-learning
provides a space in which youth practice informed civic
participation, thereby transforming themselves and their
community.
Service-learning best practice:
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Supports increased student
attendance.
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Leads to more positive
perceptions of school and youth by community members.
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Reduces the likelihood that
participating students will engage in “risk” behaviors.
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Develops students’ sense of
civic and social responsibility.
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Positively effects
students’ interpersonal development and the ability to relate to
culturally diverse groups.
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Improves the overall school
climate.
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Provides opportunities for
students to become active, positive contributors to society.
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Results in greater mutual respect of teachers
and students.
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Helps students acquire
academic skills and knowledge.
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Engages students in their
studies and motivates them to learn.
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