citizen Responsibilities
STRAND 3: YOUR RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AS A COMMUNITY MEMBER
Students delineate their civic rights and responsibilities as members of their community and the limits to their rights when they conflict with the rights of others. Students are introduced to the concepts of civil rights, public virtue, and civic engagement.
Compelling Questions:
-What do you like about your community? Are there changes you would like
to make?
-Who decides what your community is like?
-How can you demonstrate respect for others in your community?
-How has your community improved, and how can you help your community continue to improve?
-How are your local leaders chosen, and how does your community assure that its leaders do what your community wants and/or needs?
Standard 3.3.1: Analyze how their community has been shaped by the diverse people who have resided within it. Compare primary and secondary sources (when available) from or about these people.
Standard 3.3.2: Reflect upon the processes used to address needs and reach solutions within their family, their classroom, or other groups of which they are a part. Compare those to the democratic processes used to address needs and reach solutions within their communities.
Standard 3.3.3: Research improvements that have been made in their community over time (for example, schools, roads, emergency services, utilities, jobs, recreation, libraries, clean environment, protection of civil rights).
Standard 3.3.4: Describe some of the civic roles that people fulfill within their community, and explain the reasons why people choose to serve in those roles and how they benefit the community.
Standard 3.3.5: Explain how their community’s leaders are elected or appointed and effective ways to work together with them to improve the community.
Standard 3.3.6: Describe why governments collect taxes and how they decide how to use them.
Standard 3.3.7: Discuss how the choices of individuals and leaders affect their community and its future (for example, supporting local businesses, volunteering, voting).
Standard 3.3.8: Collaborate with peers to address a need in their local community through service.
Students delineate their civic rights and responsibilities as members of their community and the limits to their rights when they conflict with the rights of others. Students are introduced to the concepts of civil rights, public virtue, and civic engagement.
Compelling Questions:
-What do you like about your community? Are there changes you would like
to make?
-Who decides what your community is like?
-How can you demonstrate respect for others in your community?
-How has your community improved, and how can you help your community continue to improve?
-How are your local leaders chosen, and how does your community assure that its leaders do what your community wants and/or needs?
Standard 3.3.1: Analyze how their community has been shaped by the diverse people who have resided within it. Compare primary and secondary sources (when available) from or about these people.
Standard 3.3.2: Reflect upon the processes used to address needs and reach solutions within their family, their classroom, or other groups of which they are a part. Compare those to the democratic processes used to address needs and reach solutions within their communities.
Standard 3.3.3: Research improvements that have been made in their community over time (for example, schools, roads, emergency services, utilities, jobs, recreation, libraries, clean environment, protection of civil rights).
Standard 3.3.4: Describe some of the civic roles that people fulfill within their community, and explain the reasons why people choose to serve in those roles and how they benefit the community.
Standard 3.3.5: Explain how their community’s leaders are elected or appointed and effective ways to work together with them to improve the community.
Standard 3.3.6: Describe why governments collect taxes and how they decide how to use them.
Standard 3.3.7: Discuss how the choices of individuals and leaders affect their community and its future (for example, supporting local businesses, volunteering, voting).
Standard 3.3.8: Collaborate with peers to address a need in their local community through service.