Ms. Reyna's 7th Grade Social Studies Project
to Ms. Reyna's Social Studies Website. This website will guide you through the process of creating your Social Studies Project on the importance of being active citizens of the democratic process. The project you will be creating with your assigned group, will help you better understand and describe the importance of participating and being responsible, knowing the rights, and the roles of citizens in our society. By the end of this project, you will understand why it is important for citizens to participate and be responsible.
Let's get Started!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Think about our society:
Imagine if our society did not have any rules citizens had to follow. Also imagine what would happen to our
society if citizens were not involved in the democratic process. How would our society look like without this process??
When you look around our society, you are able to see the citizens have roles, rights, and responsabilities. We make democratic decisions everyday and also when we participate as active citizens in the democratic process. The roles, responsabilities, and rights citizens are the ones that maintain our society together. It is important that every citizen knows the importance of being actively involved in the democratic process because that is the way our voice is heard.
Some of the roles, rights, and responsabilities of citizens are:
Essential Question:What would happen if we stopped playing our roles as active citizens in the Democratic Process???????
Grading Rubric for Powerpoint Presentation
Project Must include the following: |
Points Possible |
Group Participation |
___________points
Points possible 20
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Grammar |
___________points
Points possible 20 |
Presentation is related to essential question.
Presentation gives examples of consequences of not participating in democratic process.
Presentation mentions the importance of being actively involved in the democratic process. |
___________points
Points possible 40 |
Power point presentation has a maximum of 10 slides.
Creativity of presentation.
Maximum of ten minutes |
___________points
Points possible 20
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Total Points for group
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/100 points
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Please complete the form below to grade your peer’s presentation:
Please rate the following:
Excellent
Good
Needs work
Eye contact with the audience
Presentation was easy to understand
Group made contact with audience
Enthusiasm of group members
The group seem prepared and have knowledge of the presentation
All group members participated in the presentation
Creativity of presentation
Additional comments for your peers:
http://stanford.edu/~ldiamond/iraq/DemocracyEducation0204.htm
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_role_of_the_people_in_a_democracy
http://www.justassociates.org/06ch%202.pdf
http://www.civiced.org/pdfs/research/BransonSpeech07111999.pdf
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/6-8/citizenship/rights.html
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/6-8/citizenship/responsibilities.html
Social studies Standard
Seventh Grade
Strand 3: Civics/Government
Concept 4: Rights, Responsabilities, and Roles of Citizenship
PO 3: Describe the importance of citizens being actively involved in the
democratic process (i.e., voting, student government, involvement in political
decision making, analyzing issues, petitioning public officials).
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