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Tips for Inspiring Civic Engagement in the Classroom

Social Studies teachers! Are you looking for ways to incorporate civic literacy in your classroom!  Civic Engagement Task Cards are a quick and easy way to stimulate discussion and inspire active engagement in your students! As a high school U.S. History teacher, I was always looking for ways to incorporate civic literacy and inspire civic engagement in the classroom. I taught in a small district where Civics and American Government were only offered every other year as elective courses (if enough kids signed up for the courses).  Task cards were a super-easy way for me to incorporate civics into my U.S. History course. Task cards can be used in many different ways. Here are a few ways I used my task cards in my classroom: Scavenger Hunt Race- I printed all 6 sheets of task cards and distributed them to students. The first student to earn 100 points (or however many points I decided) “wins.” (I labeled each task card with a point value depending on the level of di...