Active Citizenship: Student Action Projects
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. (93 pp.)
Download a sample critical challenge from Active Citizenship: Student Action Projects
ISBN 978-0-86491-260-2
Price: $27.95
This title is Ministry approved for use in the following subjects, grade levels and provinces. Links provide curricular connections where available:
Civics: 11 (British Columbia)
Social Justice: 12 (British Columbia)
Social Studies: 7 (Manitoba)
“Just wanted to let you know I’ve had a chance to look over Active Citizenship and wanted to pass on my 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.)
Download a sample critical challenge from Caring for Young People’s Rights
Feuilles reproductibles en français : La protection des droits de la jeunesse
**Gratuites avec l’achat de la ressource anglaise
Les notes pédagogiques qui expliquent comment utiliser les fiches d’information, les tableaux, les documents et les grilles d’évaluation ne sont pas disponibles en français. Il faudra consulter la version complète en anglais afin d’utiliser efficacement les feuilles reproductibles ci-jointes.
ISBN 978-0-86491-310-4
Price: $27.95
This resource was developed with support from the Canadian International Development Agency.
This title is Ministry approved for use in the following subjects, grade levels and provinces. Links provide curricular connections where available:
Civics: 11 (British Columbia)
Social Justice: 12 (British Columbia)
“the students were AMAZINGLY well behaved and more importantly, engaged. … The teacher had noted that this was by far the quietest and most engaged the students have been in a LONG time.”
- Keith Hansen, student-teacher, Simon Fraser University
