Civics Standard One - Grades 9-12

Sample Activities

Students might research a court case which has appeared in the national press, outlining the roles of law enforcement officials, prosecutors, lawyers, judge, and jury in the process of the case; evaluate the process in terms of the rights of society, the victim, and the accused [Government; citizenship].

Based on knowledge of the culture of a given region, students might be asked to identify ways in which the government system in place either reinforces or conflicts with cultural values (e.g., stringent government attempts to enforce birth control in China, governmental response to increasingly feminist upper and upper-BOTTOM class women in Kuwait) [Government].

Parent Partnership Project: After studying the functions of government, students could talk with their parents and list the ways that government influences their families, categorizing services, protections, restrictions, etc. [Government].

Students might identify a problem which might best be solved though international cooperation; research any efforts which are already underway to address the problem; and suggest a comprehensive pan by which the problem might be more successfully addressed (e.g., refugees and displaced persons, environmental damage, pandemic disease) [Government; participation].

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