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20 Ideas for Teaching Citizenship to Children
http://www.kellybear.com/TeacherArticles/TeacherTip27.html
20 Ideas for Teaching Citizenship to Children
Educators are obligated to teach students the history of our democracy on a level children can comprehend. Helping students explore citizenship and connecting it to their lives are the keys to true understanding. When children are exposed to storytelling, drama, and other activities in which they are actively involved, their retention is increased. If they learn that people from other countries are not necessarily free to voice dissenting opinions, practice their religion, or even have as many children as they would like, the students will begin to appreciate their freedoms.

YouTube Digital Citizenship Curriculum for Teachers
http://bit.ly/MWCJq0
YouTube Digital Citizenship Curriculum for Teachers
YouTube launched a digital citizenship curriculum for teachers, which includes training in things like how to report content, cyberbullying, safety modes, and copyright. In order to be more easily accessed in schools, last year YouTube started offering a service that redirects all YouTube links to its Education channel, YouTube.com/Education

Digital Literacy and Citizenship Classroom Curriculum
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum/
Digital Literacy and Citizenship Classroom Curriculum
Common Sense Media offers this FREE Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum to help educators empower their students and their school communities to be safe, responsible, and savvy as they navigate this fast-paced digital world. NO COST to your school. It's all free thanks to generous support from our philanthropic supporters.

Teaching and Modeling Good Digital Citizenship
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/03/teaching-and-modeling-good-digital-citizenship/
Teaching and Modeling Good Digital Citizenship
Common Sense Media recently launched a free digital citizenship curriculum categorized by age. The curriculum includes both paper-based and digital activities and teaches online safety and Internet research skills in combination with ethics.

CitizenTube (YouTube Channel)
https://www.youtube.com/user/citizentube
CitizenTube (YouTube Channel)

Citizenship forum on the TES (UK)
http://community.tes.co.uk/forums/68.aspx
Citizenship forum on the TES ... Times Educational Supplement (UK)

CitizenTube (Blog/Videos)
http://www.citizentube.com/
CitizenTube (Blog/Videos)

Citizen X
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/citizenx/
Citizen X
What does it mean to be a citizen? This website helps to explain exactly what that means for you!
Watch the animations, do the activities ... plus the chance to talk to others on our message board.

The Citizenship Foundation
http://www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/
The Citizenship Foundation
The Citizenship Foundation is an independent charity working to promote more effective citizenship through education about the law, democracy and society. Founded in 1989, it encourages
- understanding of the rights and duties of citizenship, the workings of the political, social, and legal systems and the democratic process;
- participation in community and voluntary affairs and in public life at local, national and international levels;
- the provision of experiences which enable citizens to become caring, confident and effective members of society. In particular, the Foundation seeks ways of enriching provision for those for whom the quality of citizenship would otherwise be poor.
rights and responsibilities | law and the legal system | human rights | education for democracy | moral and critical thinking |

Global Dimension
http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/
The Global Dimension in the Curriculum and Whole School Ethos:
Education Empowering Young People with the Knowledge, Skills and Understanding to Play an Active Role as Global Citizens.
Global issues are a part of people’s lives in a way that they never were for previous generations. Television, the internet, international sport, global trade and increased opportunities for travel, all bring the wider world into everyone’s daily life. The greater impact of global issues is reflected in education too.

Civics Online
http://www.civics-online.org/
Civics Online is a collaborative, online project providing a rich array of primary sources, professional development tools, and interactive activities to help in the teaching of civics.
Civics Online is designed to foster teachers' thinking about how to design effective learning environments around ideas of democratic citizenship, and to support students as they explore these environments.

Center for Civic Education
http://new.civiced.org/
The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation dedicated to fostering the development of informed, responsible participation in civic life by citizens committed to values and principles fundamental to American constitutional democracy.
The Center specializes in civic/citizenship education, law-related education, and international educational exchange programs for developing democracies. Programs focus on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights; American political traditions and institutions at the federal, state, and local levels; constitutionalism; civic participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

Citizenship Foundation
http://www.citizenshipfoundation.org.uk/
The Citizenship Foundation is an independent charity funded by grants from charities, business, commerce, government and private donors. Founded in 1989, it encourages
understanding of the rights and duties of citizenship, the workings of the political, social, and legal systems and the democratic process;
the provision of experiences which enable citizens to become caring, confident and effective members of society.
Rights and responsibilities | law and the legal system | human rights | education for democracy | moral and critical thinking |

The United Nations
http://www.un.org/
A huge site which contains a wealth of information with sections on International Law, Economic and Social Development, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. It also contains a history of the UN, an explanation of the UN's role and a multimedia tour of the UN's New York headquarters.

Teaching Human Rights On-Line
http://homepages.uc.edu/thro/
Project THRO (Teaching Human Rights On-Line) is being developed as a website of interactive teaching cases. THRO seeks to improve ethical reasoning and cross-cultural communication for its participants