Analyze and evaluate public/government resources and describe how using these resources for communication can affect change.
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| Wonderful Water- Research an Issue Related to Water Management while Engaging in Civic Responsiblilty. Lesson 1 | This is lesson 1 in a 3-part unit. Students will conduct research and describe how using public/government resources for communication can affect change while identifying the civic responsibility of being informed. Students will analyze the impact of civic engagement as a means of preserving or reforming institutions in this integrated lesson plan. |
| Conserve Our Waters Part 1 | Students will research government websites to gather data about source water conservation. Students will also be answering open ended questions from the data gathered to summarize what they have learned. The data they are gathering and analyzing will be used to create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) using their coding skills in Scratch in this integrated lesson plan. This lesson is part one of a three-part mini lesson. |
| Voter Turnout: The Importance of Civic Participation Part 1 | Students examine trends in voter turnout related to age, gender, race, and educational level. They will identify the most underrepresented category within each demographic for both a state and local election. This research from lesson one will be used throughout the three-part integrated computer science and civics mini-unit. |
| Help Behind-the-Scenes at a Museum as a Citizen Scientist | Students will learn about the importance of biodiversity research collections (specifically, herbaria), the types of data that their specimens hold, the process of digital data creation about the specimens, and the online publishers of that digital data. Students will act as citizen scientists and transcribe labels of plant specimens then explore the research value of the data that they create. |
