Lesson 7: Civic Action Project Planning
Duration of Days: 1
Lesson Objective
Students will develop a plan for a personal civic action project.
How can we translate our knowledge and passion into meaningful civic action?
Action plan, project proposal, implementation, evaluation, stakeholder.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.5, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.4, National Council for the Social Studies: C3.D2.Civ.12.9-12
Planning and organizing, developing persuasive arguments, critical thinking.
Description: Students create and present project proposals.
Purpose: To foster student agency and promote active citizenship.
DOK Level: 4 (Creating).
Local community projects, national advocacy campaigns, examples of youth-led initiatives.
That projects must be large-scale to be impactful, that planning is unnecessary.
Provide project templates and checklists.
Offer a variety of project options (e.g., volunteering, advocacy, awareness campaigns).
One on one teacher conferences to help with project creation.
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- Presentation of civic action project plans.
- Creation of action plan timeline.