Citizenship Foundation: New list of resources for citizenship teachers. News Item: 27 August, 2014 New list of resources for citizenship teachers With the new programme of study for citizenship coming into effect, there's no better time for a digest of teaching resources for this National Curriculum subject. The Expert Group for Citizenship recently published a digest of resources [pdf] that its members reccommend for teachers of the revised National Curriculum for citizenship. The digest is organised into topics, skills and education phase. Topics include: democracy and governmentrights and responsibilitiesfairness, justice and laweconomy and financeeuropean, international, globalidentities and diversitycritical thinking, researchactive citizenshipdebate.
Subject Expert Groups are supported by the Department for Education. Dowload the resources digest [pdf] Welcome to NanoSpace! Welcome to NanoSpace! Smithsonian. Games. 6 Ways to Make Civics Learning Come Alive. “What does it mean to live in a democracy?” “What are our rights and responsibilities as citizens of a neighborhood, a city, a state, a country?” These are important questions and ones we believe our students must be able to answer by the time they graduate from high school. A thoughtful understanding of citizenship and civic life is one of the goals we have for all of our students as they move on toward college and the workplace.
But as many teachers can attest, it’s not so easy to teach! The three branches of government and 50 state capitals can be memorized. This fall, the new College, Career, Civic Life (C3) Framework is being released to help educators expand social studies and civic education in the K-12 classroom. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Teachers: Share your favorite project or lesson that helps you to engage students in civic learning and understanding and win a trip to the National Council for Social Studies conference (NCSS 2013) or an iPad Mini. Games. MyMoney.gov. View in Web Browser /_layouts/VisioWebAccess/VisioWebAccess.aspx? Listguid={ListId}&itemid={ItemId}&DefaultItemOpen=1 0x0 0x1 FileType vdw Manage Subscriptions /_layouts/images/ReportServer/Manage_Subscription.gif /_layouts/ReportServer/ManageSubscriptions.aspx? 0x80 rdl Manage Data Sources /_layouts/ReportServer/DataSourceList.aspx?
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