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Are you searching for ways to teach being a good citizen for kids?
These activities, resources, and lesson ideas will be perfect for your civics unit!
This is a fun topic that kids enjoy learning about, and it tends to be repeated yearly until third grade.
Although generally part of a civics unit, I like to relate this to social-emotional learning.
Being a good citizen is also about kindness and helping others – these are things that we want to repeat throughout the year to students.
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This is a fun one that allows students to interact with the lesson!
The main idea of this one: students come up with examples of being a good citizen, and not being a good citizen.
Make a quick t-chart, write down “shows good citizenship” on one side and “doesn’t show good citizenship on the other.”
Students can add their ideas to a post-it note and add it to the chart!
You could do this with a read-aloud as well via whole group (students can raise their hand and add their idea to the chart as they hear an example in a book!).
Kids love brainstorming and adding their ideas to the chart, they will love this! (And it’s an easy and veryyyy minimal prep activity…. woohoo!).
I have a blog post about the best read–alouds to teach kids about good citizenship (Click HERE to check it out).
I LOVE this Google Classroom resource and I think that you and your students will too!
This is a perfect one when you are trying to incorporate more digital resources into your classroom, or are having a tough time with student engagement.
Your students can do this independently, or you can do it whole group (students can come up to the board to do the activities!).
The activities included are super interactive – there are drag–&-drop activities, as well as opportunities for critical thinking and short answers.
This resource covers the following topics:
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Your students will LOVE this hands–on interactive notebook!
This is a super fun way to teach about good citizenship.
This interactive notebook includes:
Have you used an interactive notebook before?
I have a post all about how to use an interactive notebook – click HERE to read.
Interactive notebook activities generally consist of hands–on paper that is cut and folded.
Interactive notebooks are differentiated based on your students’ needs and how much assistance you want to give them concerning writing notes and learning/reviewing a topic.
Since all the information is in one place, it also makes end–of-the-year review one million times easier!
My interactive notebooks are differentiated.
It includes three types of notebook pieces that allow you to choose whether your students will manually fill in the notes, fill-in-the-blanks, or to give pieces to students with the notes already filled out.
They are also easy to cut – no trying to cut a tiny heart out for half an hour!
A couple snips and students are good to go.
Finally, they are paper–saving. Each piece of paper printed will be cut in half for two students.
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