PROJECT CITIZEN
• CIVIC EDUCATION
• International Program
• Government B Requirement
• Graduation Requirement – State Senior
Culminating Project
The Beginnings
• Pay It Forward (Watch clip)
• Civic Education
• Middle school to High
School
• International
WHY PROJECT CITIZEN?
• Civic Participation
• Meet State requirement
• Can make a difference!
Civic Knowledge
100
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70.05
56.27
44.99
49.94
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Pre-Survey
Post-Survey
Grades 9-12
Project Citizen
students
Project Citizen
Comparison
Public Policy
Knowledge.
Creative writing and public policy
PC students improved significantly
more in persuasive writing ability.
PC students had more knowledge of how
to get a public policy adopted.
GROUP WORK
• 4-5 students in a group
• Team Leader
• TEAM WORK?
•Problems/Solutions
•GROUP MATERIALS
– BINDER and FOUR TABS
HOW TO DO PROJECT CITIZEN
Section 1
1. FIND A PROBLEM
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Community Map
Brain Storm
Investigate
Narrow it down to your top 5
Investigate
Select ONE – COOL TITLE
FACE BOOK
What Criteria is Used to Select a Problem?
1) Is the problem you selected important to
you and other people in your community?
2) Does government have some responsibility
to deal with this problem?
3) Will there be sufficient information about
the problem to develop a good project?
4) Is there a realistic possibility of solving the
problem selected?
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Project topics used A LOT
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School parking lot
School roads to exit school building
Pot holes/ road conditions
Recreation centers
Snow covered roads/ plowing
School lunches
Common Core and Testing
Some topic ideas for Project Citizen
• Rexburg Lake (like
Rigby lake)
• Underage drugs and
alcohol use
• Energy drinks
• E Cigarettes
• Education
• Hunting/Fishing
• Elk farms
• Food labels/ regulation
• Football/Sport –
Concussions
• School zones
• Conservation
• Environmental issues
• Ban plastic bags TAX
• Alternative Energy
• School $ (Bus
advertising could be
one of the solutions)
• All day dates for dances ($,
danger, etc.)
• Need meeting area for
students (no real “commons”)
at MHS – hall crowding and
lack of socializing
• Several City of Rexburg
ordinances are not enforced
• Littering on county lands
(disposing of dead animal etc.)
• School hours (too early for
adolescence).
• Human trafficking
• ALL students are not
motivated to graduate
(Technology diploma, area of
study guidelines, etc.)
• Water storage for Eastern
Idaho irrigation
• Suicide (Idaho)
HOW TO DO PROJECT CITIZEN
Section 2
2. Decide on 3-4 Alternative SOLUTIONS
– Research solutions = public policy.
– Select 3-4 solutions to the problem
– Research the 3-4
– Advantages and Disadvantages of
each solution.
HOW TO DO PROJECT CITIZEN
Section 3
3. Select ONE PUBLIC POLICY to SOLVE PROMBLEM
What is your solution to the problem?
– Select ONE of your alternatives or
combination
– Must be a Public Policy Solution
• Action by those who hold or affect government
positions of authority.
• Government = city, county, State, National,
School Board etc.
– Why that ONE over the others
• Statistics, Articles, Pictures, Graphs, Polls etc.
Definition and Activity
• Public policy is a concept or set of
ideas that guides a course of action
or a procedure used in dealing with
public issues and problems.
• Laws, rules, regulations, by-laws,
school rules, codes, ordinance,
policy, etc.
• Use NEWSPAPERS to find 20 public
policies.
HOW TO DO PROJECT CITIZEN
Section 4
4. Developing an ACTION PLAN
– Bring to attention of Government
– Formulation of plan and those that will
support it
– Adoption – When and who must adopt
– Implementation (Cost and benefits)
– Evaluation – Who will oversee it and
evaluate that it is effective.
REQUIREMENTS
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PORTFOLIO = BINDER and Slide Show as a visual aid
PRESENTATION = Panel and teacher (20-25 minutes)
RESEARCH! (CITED – APA)
DRESS UP – Professional dress
Follow up answering questions (5 minutes)
Credit for Sources ( IN binder and ON slide show) (CITED –
APA)
• EXAMPLE
APA
BINDER: (RESEARCH)
• Title Page (1 for binder for group)
• Abstract (1 for binder for group)
• Introduction (1 for binder for group)
• Each Paper/Essay: Heading – Title (All same)
• Work Cited
SEE Tutorial (link on website):
http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/
CONCLUSION
• WHY AND HOW IS IT DONE (Video overview)
• Work in groups
• 600 points possible = 200 individual points
(group work and effort) + 400 points group
score (Presentation and Portfolio)
• Nursery Rhyme (PRACTICE)
HUMPTY DUMPTY
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the King’s horses, And all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again!