Active Citizenship Today

The effort to live up to the ideals expressed in the founding documents of the United States and Canada is a never-ending process. Students face new challenges while still dealing with constant problems such as playground bullying and racial stereotyping. This series explores the social damage that these behaviors inflict, and prescribes the best ways for students to handle, avoid, and deter both problem situations and actions that impede social progress.
Each Book Contains:
• An example of some conventional wisdom of the past and how it hurt people not in the majority
• A sidebar on someone who practiced active citizenship to enhance social progress
• A project to allow students to practice active citizenship
• Fun Fact boxes that illustrate the need reach out to our neighbors
Curriculum Connections:
• Following the 3C framework, students are presented with important questions facing an increasingly diverse North American population, asked to confront their behavior and that of everyone around them, and then to think of ways to take informed action to provide answers to these vexing questions
•Sidebars and visuals combine with written content to make concepts presented accessible to all types of learners
• Stories of difficulties experienced by those of different economic and cultural backgrounds meet 3C standards for motivating students to become active rather than passive participants in our civic life
• Cultural diversity and understanding is promoted through the example of real life situations and how they were harmful to others