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Engaging Students In Community Issues, Kara A. Mccraw, Susan S. Taylor
Engaging Students In Community Issues, Kara A. Mccraw, Susan S. Taylor
School K-12
How can you integrate community resources in the classroom in an exciting and dynamic way? We set out to answer this question in the summer of 1999 when we attended a conference sponsored by the North Carolina Institute of Government. Our immediate goal was to help the freshmen students we teach in a course called ELPSA (Economic, Legal and Political Systems in Action) understand the importance of active citizenship and prudent fiscal decision making. What better way to teach this than through real life examples? After our conference and the introduction to a number of valuable resources and contact points …