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Civic Values are important principles that humans hold to ensure a cohesive community.
Civic values are important to help maintain social order and keep society running. In a classroom, this prepares students to be informed, contributing members to our society as individuals. Students being prepared and educated now will help our society's future.
Promoting Civic Values in your classroom every day will be beneficial and long lasting.
-Be Model Citizens
-Model Democratic Practices
-Celebrate and Respect Culture
-Evaluate Current Events
-Share History
-Teach Kindness
-Use everyday moments to bridge bigger ideas
-Introduce Vocabulary
-Exercise Freedoms
Textbooks can be a hands on tool used for instruction. They can be used for all students at the same time. They can also be used to connect cross curricular subjects in school, i.e. ELA portions of the day can be used with Social Studies content stories. Curriculum based textbooks can lend themselves to meeting standards and usually to extend to lessons.
Storybooks, picture or chapter or graphic novels are also great sourcces for textbooks in the classroom.
Technology use in the classroom can further lessons and provide a broader content area of topics to focus in on. Technology advances us to keep up to date with current events as well as delving deeper into past topics. Technology can be used to research, read articles, listen to podcasts, watch videos and create presentations.
Some great technology resources to use in a classroom to teach civic values are:
-icivics.org
-CAP
-youtube.com videos by channels such as Khan Academy and KidsAcademy
-have students create slideshows on things that matter to them and how they can create change
School Provided Subject Area Textbooks
Elementary Picture Books With Civic Values Lessons
-Carl the Complainer
-Dinosaurs for Democracy
-What can a Citizen Do?
A great website to visit for books to teach civic studies at different age levels:
https://www.startwithabook.org/summer-reading-learning/civics-and-our-government
Truby, Donna (). 6 Ways To Make Civics Learning Come Alive . https://www.weareteachers.com/6-ways-to-make-civics-learning-come-alive-2/
Best Ideas for Teaching Citizenship to Early Learners. (). https://www.kidsacademy.mobi/storytime/teaching-citizenship-elementary-students/
Children's books and activities Civics and Our Government. (). https://www.startwithabook.org/summer-reading-learning/civics-and-our-government