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| Children's Knowledge and Thinking about Government |
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| Earlier studies indicate that young children tend to depict a benevolent world in which political leaders are wise, caring, and attentive to the needs of everyone. |
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| Children's Knowledge and Thinking about Government |
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| American children's early political thinking is focused on the president, whom they depict as making laws and running the country by doing everything from managing the military and world affairs to providing individual assistance to people who telephone or visit the White House. |
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| Teaching about Civics and Government |
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| Developing instruction around the basic idea that governments provide facilities and services that people need but are too big in scope,expense, and so on for individuals or families to provide for themselves. |
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| Teaching about Civics and Government |
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| An effective way to develop such appreciation is to prepare a photo essay illustrating events occurring in a typical day in the life of one of the students in the class and underscoring the role of government in facilitating these activities. |
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| Teaching about Civics and Government |
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| discussion or simulation of what it is like to live in countries where there are no elections or at least no secret ballots, where access to desired housing and jobs requires continued government approval, and where people who resist government policies are subject to arrest. |
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| Teaching about Civics and Government |
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| Lesson plans and children's literature resources on the presidency are plentiful but often focus on the trivial and stop well short of genuine civic education. |
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| Teaching about Civics and Government |
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| Key to successful civic and political education is thoughtful discussion of civic issues within an open classroom climate. |
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| Teaching about Civics and Government |
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| Instruction in civic content increases students civic knowledge, but by itself it usually has negligible effects on student attitudes related to eventual civic and political participation. |
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| Teaching about Civics and Government |
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| Instruction about the civic aspects of government might begin with emphasis that students are members of a classroom community as well as larger community that incorporates their homes and businesses. |
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| Teaching about Civics and Government |
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| As members of the classroom learning community, they are expected to follow rules designed to help people get along, keep things fair, protect individual and school property, and keep people safe. |
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| Teaching about Civics and Government |
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| The students should learn that the community leaders have three basic jobs: make plans, laws, solve problems, and make the community a pleasant place to live. |
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| The elementary level of social studies contains content relating to civics and government but not so much political science. When teaching these topics it is important to have the students know the basics and to teach the very basic means of civics and government. Students have such an innocent mind at this age of politics and such so it is important to teach them an open mind to all aspects. |
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