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Student Service Projects... Let's catch up with the Student Service Projects Education World has highlighted, and see how they are doing! September, 2000 The Diversity Bus: On the Road to Understanding On a 13-month journey, this transformed school bus will visit 25 schools in 22 states. Find out where they are now!  new address Project Updates April, 2000--Alleman Middle Arts Academy, Lafayette, Louisiana December, 2000--Kutztown Jr. High School, Kutztown, Pennsylvania	Passing the Tests US Citizenship Test Canadian Citizenship Test Australian Citizenship Test  The Government The Great American Web Site --Every link you need to the US Government Australian Government --From University of Queensland Dept. of Gov.

LESSON PLANNING

Articles	Some R-E-S-P-E-C-T (Lessons) Just for You! Aretha and Rodney are always talking about respect; now it's Ed World's turn! If your students lack it or could stand to learn more about it, we offer five lessons this week to get them talking and thinking about R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Hail to the Chief: Inauguration Lessons! Every four years on January 20, an important event occurs in the United States: A new president takes the oath of Office during an inauguration ceremony. Education World offers ten super activities to help your students learn about and commemorate the inauguration. Earth Inc. --- A Service-Learning Lesson Plan The Social Studies Education Consortium (SSEC) offers a template for a model service project --- and teachers from Desert Sky Middle School offer their project. Included: Cross-curriculum goals, activities, and more! Beat the Clock! -- Lessons in Time Management for Middle Graders Is time management an issue for your students? Now a free resource can help students learn to "beat the clock"! Included: Sample activities for teaching time management! Recycling: Enter the "Use Less Stuff Contest"! Use Less Stuff Day (November 20) coincides with the holiday season -- that time of year when Americans produce more trash than at any other time! Included -- news of a recycling-idea contest for students ages 6 to 12.
Related Links	U.S. Supreme Court Download explanations of the Court structure and rules and a schedule of events, all in PDF format. History/Social Studies Web Site This site provides an extensive list of links to national and international government resources.

TEACHING THEMES

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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.

CIVICS STANDARDS

National Standards	Civics K - 4 Civics 5 - 8 Civics 9 - 12
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