By: Kaileigh Wenglikowski

GLCE: 1-C5.0.2: Describe situations in which people act as good citizens and explain how those actions demonstrate core democratic values.

Big book, goes through different things that someone Can do that would demonstrate a good citizen. HereHere is a read aloud of it on Youtube. Big book, talks about why we have rules, and how a good citizen is one who follows that rules. Ex: good citizens follow all of the signs on the road/other places

 Social Studies Alive! Chapters 1-5 discuss what it means to a good citizen at school as well as why we have rules. Chapter 13 is about what a good citizen does exactly inside of their communities

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Good Citizens Every Community Needs Citizens like you and me. Every community needs citizens like you and me. They get along with others. They are kind to one another. I want to be a good citizen. Every Community Needs Citizens like you and me. Every community needs citizens like you and me. Help others when they need it. Pay a sick friend a visit. I want to be a good citizen. Every Community Needs Citizens like you and me. Every community needs citizens like you and me. Help make the community beautiful for all to see. I want to be a good citizen. Every Community Needs Citizens like you and me. Every community needs citizens like you and me.

 The students will be making a Layered Look Book from page 24 in Dinah Zikes book. In this foldable students will be making a list of different things that make them a good citizen. This will include a description and a picture for each play. The students can continue to add pages as they think of them throughout the lesson.

 These websites would be great resources for a teacher looking for activities to use throughout the lesson ernance_civics_citizenship_first_1st_grade_social_studies.htm ernance_civics_citizenship_first_1st_grade_social_studies.htm

This website gives five different lessons that you can pick and choose different activities that will walk the students through what it means to be a good citizen. This website also provides a bunch of different books that can be read throughout the unit to help solidify the GLCE’s.website

 The teacher can ask the students to go home that day, or out during recess and doing something that they know a good citizen would do. Upon completing that, they will write what they did and receive a “Good Citizen” Badge!

Individual poster set to hang in the classroom to discuss what the core democratic values are and how they are represented in the things they do that make them a good citizen. This allows you to only hang the ones that pertain to exactly what you are teaching at the specific grade level. This circle map can be created at some point during the lesson where they list all the different things that they know make a good citizen.