Intermediate/Middle/Senior

Active Citizenship: Student Action Projects

Roland Case, Cliff Falk, Neil Smith and Walt Werner

Sample

This resource provides a framework for elementary and secondary teachers to guide students in planning and implementing a social action project. Five student tasks comprise the problem-solving model at the heart of this approach: clarifying the problem, agreeing on a solution, planning a course of action, and implementing and evaluating the action. The “tools" to help students thoughtfully carry out each task are developed through a variety of learning activities. There are case studies and blackline masters for student use as well as discussion documents to provide teachers with additional background in social action and critical thinking. (93pp.)

ISBN 0-86491-260-9

Just wanted to let you know I've had a chance to look over Active Citizenship and wanted to pass on congratulations on another fine addition to the TC2 series which of course will be of immediate help to teachers of Civics 11 . . . Active Citizenship will obviously be of great help in this exciting project. —Harry Lewis, secondary teacher, Greater Victoria School District, BC

Caring for Young People's Rights (Revised Edition)

The seven challenges in this resource foster understanding of the nature and range of basic human rights and appreciation of the importance of protecting these rights. Human rights are personalized through real-life profiles of young people in a variety of developing countries. Students then translate the shortfalls in these young people’s daily lives into statements about the rights that everyone needs in order to enjoy a minimum quality of life. Students assume the role of development director in planning a project to secure the rights of the young people they have been reading about. (126 pp.)

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