Effective Skills of a Citizen

Effective Skills of a Citizen

1. Economics

   • Design and sell auto parts
   • Make a household budget
   • Make trading deals with other countries
   • Contact your representative to solve a problem
   • Write or sign a petition
   • Support Clean water projects
   • Hire a distribution company to transport your goods
   • Be a police officer
   • Decide how many goods to produce this quarter
   • Use data to predict the population density for your city in 20 years

2. Geography

   • Use a map scale
   • Understand different religious beliefs and their impacts on life
   • Work on protecting Wildlife
   • Learn the favorite foods of jungle Pygmies
   • Write a travel guide to Indonesia
   • Captain a ship across the Atlantic
   • Work in a diamond mine in Sierra Leone

3. History

   • Teach about Ancient Egyptians
   • Analyze past battles
   • Organize causes of events from BC
   • Analyze the major events of the Ming Dynasty
   • Make a timeline of the Indus River Civilazations
   • List effects of an invasion
   • Radio-carbon date the age of dinosaur bones
   • Know the Bill of Rights

4. Goverment

   • Run for City Council
   • Identify different types of governments
   • Go to a political rally
   • Represent the USA in other countries
   • Get evidence to choose a side on an issuse
   • Be in a formal debate with factual evidence
   • Represent a defendant at a criminal trials