How To Be A Good Citizen: Citizenship Behavior Lessons and Discussion Activities

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Teach your students about citizenship! This resource consists of 3 Google Slides Presentations in which students will learn how to be a good citizen, specific examples of good-citizen behaviors, and examples of good citizens from American History. There are also several scenarios students can be presented with in which they must consider what action a good citizen would take.

Target Audience(s):

• Special Education
• Pre-K
• Kindergarten
• First Grade
• Second Grade
• Third Grade

Topic(s):

• Citizenship
• How to be a good citizen
• Behavior
• Good behavior
• Kindness
• Manners
• Polite
• Community
• Social-emotional learning
• Social skills
• Good citizens in history

Details:

• 3 Google Slides Presentations, 30 total slides
• Short informational stories and discussion activities
• Colorful illustrations and real-life photos
• Text and images merged into the background, students cannot edit or delete content

Standards:

California History-Social Science Standards:

K.1 Students understand that being a good citizen involves acting in certain ways.

1. Follow rules, such as sharing and taking turns, and know the consequences of breaking them.

1. Learn examples of honesty, courage, determination, individual responsibility, and patriotism in American and world history from stories and folklore.

1. Know beliefs and related behaviors of characters in stories from times past and understand the consequences of the characters’ actions.

1.1 Students describe the rights and individual responsibilities of citizenship. 1. Understand the rule-making process in a direct democracy (everyone votes on the rules) and in a representative democracy (an elected group of people make the rules), giving examples of both systems in their classroom, school, and community. 2. Understand the elements of fair play and good sportsmanship, respect for the rights and opinions of others, and respect for rules by which we live, including the meaning of the “Golden Rule.”

2.5 Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride).