Students
Learn Respect --- Thanks to Good Manners!
R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Aretha Franklin sings for it. Rodney Dangerfield never gets any. Educators who teach good manners
find it every day in student behavior. Could mastering manners make a difference in your classroom?
Building a Working Community in the Classroom
Elementary teacher Toni Wing captured her students' interest by making them citizen-leaders of a city called
Tinseltown. As business people, bankers, and employees, the students kept checkbooks and inventory and found
out about the real world.
Making Census 2000 Count for Kids
Map literacy. Community involvement. Data management. The U.S. Census Bureau and Scholastic Inc. have used those
three themes to create Census in the Schools teaching materials --including a 4- by 6-foot U.S. map, in color--
that are available to teachers throughout the United States.
Is Community Service a Waste of Time?
Many educators use the terms *community service* and *service learning* interchangeably. They are two very different
concepts, though. What is the difference? Should your students participate in one or the other?
Service Learning in Action Across the Grades
No matter what grade level or subject you teach, service-learning projects can add a new dimension to your curriculum.
Education World offers examples of three excellent service-learning projects --- one each at the elementary,
middle, and high school levels.
Students Learn While Helping at Soup Kitchen
How do you teach compassion? A project launched by teachers and students at Presentation of St. Mary Academy
in Hudson, N.H., is designed to do just that. Included: Details of how service learning can be tied to learning
across the curriculum!
Colorado Students Fight to End Slavery in Sudan
Barbara Vogel's students are credited with spurring what has been called the largest abolitionist movement of
the last century. What happened? As Education World discovered in an exclusive interview with Vogel, her students
study slavery, but they learn "the power of one."
C Is for Citizenship: Using Literature to Teach Citizenship Concepts
The Social Science Education Consortium has created a terrific tool -- C Is for Citizenship: Children's Literature
and Civic Understanding -- for using 20 tradebooks to teach citizenship concepts across the grades.
"Baby" Helps Teens Think It Over!
A computerized doll, programmed to mirror the needs of a real baby, shows teens what parenting is really
like.
Teaching Citizenship’s Five Themes
Activities from the editors of Weekly Reader can help develop K-6 students’ understanding of the five citizenship
themes---honesty, compassion, respect, responsibility, and courage.
