"Civics Today: Citizenship, Economics, and You" delivers fully developed content; relevant, engaging features; and a fresh, student-friendly design that appeals to every student in a diverse classroom. To enhance students’ success in assessment, the content is carefully aligned with state and national standards in civics and economics. Two economics units provide an understanding of the interrelationship between democracy and the free enterprise system.
Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies - What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
This collection of outstanding, teacher-tested methods for K–12 social studies instruction for diverse classrooms offers fresh ideas and strategies covering citizenship, diversity, community, and more.
This author brings her expertise in the field of Circle Time and Citizenship to introduce a global focus to the learning experience of young children. The six lessons follow Margaret's successful formula, setting the content on opposite pages for the two age groups, four to six years and seven to nine years. The sessions cover many topics in the themes:
- basic needs
- environmental Issues
- fairness
- exploring various cultures
- democracy - global Issues.
Use of story, reflection and case study material introduces new experiences to the pupils, promotes tolerance and understanding and enriches the citizenship curriculum.
Learning Democracy in School and Society: Education, Lifelong Learning, and the Politics of Citizenship
This book explores the relationships between education, lifelong learning and democratic citizenship. It emphasises the importance of the democratic quality of the processes and practices that make up the everyday lives of children, young people and adults for their ongoing formation as democratic citizens. The book combines theoretical and historical work with critical analysis of policies and wider developments in the field of citizenship education and civic learning.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people come to America seeking new opportunities in this “land of the free” and “home of the brave.
This revised book includes everything a candidate needs to know to become a US Citizen including: How to apply, How to prepare for and pass the exam, and how to have a successful interview. It features official USCIS questions and answers for lots of practice. Also includes a list of all of the English vocabulary words needed. Finally, users can access a FREE online customized diagnostic report to identify their strengths and areas for improvement.
