Encouraging Community Engagement

Unit of 3 Lessons
Grade Levels: 
9
10
11
12
Subjects: 
Language Arts
Philanthropy
Social Studies
Issue Area: 
Civil society
Focus Question 

 How does an individual use personal interests and strengths to impact the common good? 

 

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Unit Overview 

Learners gain awareness that their active participation in community life (volunteering, elections, advocacy) makes their community and government stronger. They analyze scarcity of resources, cost and benefits, and economic thinking of community engagement. 

Service Experience 
Learners use economic reasoning in selecting the service project in which to allocate their scarce resources of time, treasure, and talent.
Lessons in This Unit 
Unit: 
Encouraging Community Engagement
Lesson 2 of 3
Grades: 
9
10
11
12

Young people learn about the variety of ways citizens can become active participants in the community: political parties, interest groups, voting, and providing public service.