Citizens’ Rights and Responsibilities

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Citizenship, Constitution, Rights, U.S. Constitution

Teacher:

Claudia Bruce

Objective:

The objective of this lesson plan is to help students understand that in addition to rights, American citizens have duties and responsibilities to perform that are necessary to maintain the quality of our government. This lesson has been designed for 7th grade and focuses on the responsibilities of citizenship.

This lesson plan focuses on the responsibilities of citizenship or the voluntary activities that we all undertake to insure the quality of government.

Materials and Documents

Citizens' Rights and Responsibilities Lesson Plan

Full lesson plan for Citizens’ Rights and Responsibilities

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