Project Citizen 2011
We the People: Project Citizen is a curricular program for middle school students that promotes competent and responsible participation in local and state government. The program helps participants learn how to monitor and influence public policy. In the process, they develop support for democratic values and principles, tolerance, and feelings of political efficacy. Project Citizen is a five step process that relies on effort and teamwork. Each class works cooperatively to identify a public policy problem in their community. They then research the problem, evaluate alternative solutions, develop their own solution in the form of a public policy, and create a political action plan to enlist local or state authorities to adopt their proposed policy. As a class we will develop a portfolio of our work and present our project in a public hearing showcase before a panel of civic-minded community members. In addition, students learn how to critically examine political cartoons, evaluate sources, and other research tools and skills necessary as they advance through school. The majority of the unit takes place online via laptops and the computer lab. The final projects are all technology based trying to teach you 21st century presentation skills. An important part of the project is choosing a local problem we as a 8th grade can try to help fix.
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