Responsibilities of Citizenship
Session 2: Actions That Can Improve the School and Community

Materials

• Teacher-selected book or video on improving the school and/or community
• Student pledge form

Instructional Activities

1. Read a teacher-selected book, or show a video that focuses on helping the school and the community.
   
   
2. Assign students to small groups, and have them describe ways the characters in the book/video made a difference in the school and the community.



3. Help students create a T-Chart to show the actions in the story that resulted in school and community improvements. For additional information on the use of graphic organizers, see the following Web site: <http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/> 
   
   
   T -CHART

   Actions Plant Flowers	Benefits School garden

   
   
4. Ask students to write in their journals about ways they might improve their school and community.
   
   
5. Have each student choose one way he/she can improve the school or community and fill out a pledge to complete the project.