{"id":468821,"date":"2010-03-24T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2532"},"modified":"2010-03-24T14:41:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:41:21","slug":"teaching-civis-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/468821","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Civis With Children\u2019s Literature:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/03\/vote.jpg\" title=\"vote.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/03\/9780516228976_sm.jpg\" title=\"9780516228976_sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/03\/9780516228976_sm.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"9780516228976_sm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You must choose a president.\u00a0 I hope that each of you will run.\u00a0 Everyone can vote just once.\u00a0 This job can be a lot of fun!&#8221;\u00a0 In this entertaining book, the Beasties must elect a class president and each candidate presents their platform to their classmates. What a great way to introduce young students to civics.\u00a0 The book also contains activities and a word list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><br \/>\nThis book is a great introductory level (K-1)\u00a0 book to the topic of civics. By reading it , students will learn that &#8220;being a good citizen involves participating in decision making in the classroom&#8221;\u00a0 (SOL K.8.f).\u00a0 The class could hold a mock election after reading the book so the students would get to see the process of voting in action.\u00a0 Math could be tied into the lesson my counting the votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pbskids.org\/democracy\/parentseducators\/citizenshipcity.html\">Citizenship City<\/a>\u00a0 is a PBS kids website containing 8 days of lesson plans and activities for teachers to use when teaching civics!<\/p>\n<p>This website provides printable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edupics.com\/en-coloring-pages-pictures-photo-presidents-of-the-us-c447.html\">coloring book pages<\/a> of US Presidents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ\">Video<\/a> of School House Rock song &#8220;I&#8217;m Just a Bill&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolhouserock.tv\/Bill.html\">Lyrics<\/a> are on this site<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flipkart.com\/vote-me-kirsten-hall-bev\/0516246585-azw3ff65zd\">Vote for Me- All About Civics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacketflap.com\/persondetail.asp?person=89570\">Kirsten Hall<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Illustrator:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bev Luedecke<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Children&#8217;s Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 2003<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 31<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade Range:<\/strong> K-1<\/p>\n<p><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>016228978<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You must choose a president.\u00a0 I hope that each of you will run.\u00a0 Everyone can vote just once.\u00a0 This job can be a lot of fun!&#8221;\u00a0 In this entertaining book, the Beasties must elect a class president and each candidate presents their platform to their classmates. What a great way to introduce young students to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}