Chapter 6 of Black Ants and Buddhists focused on how to teach young students the importance of voting. The approach to teaching students about voting can sometimes be very standard, boring, and predictable. As classroom teachers, we need to ensure that students, even the youngest ones, are able to make the connection between the importance of voting and the impact the vote from the masses can have in the nation, state, city, and their immediate community. It is also important for the students to get to this high level of critical thinking and connection making by engaging them in a real-world hands-on experience. The teacher from the article decided that the best approach for her students was to learn about how voting came about and who was allowed to vote to begin with, as well as how minorities, who were once excluded from voting, gained their right to vote via hard work, dedication, peaceful protest, and so forth.
By creating an immersive lesson in social studies you can ensure that students will be involved, making connections, as well as establishing their sense of identity and self as a member of society. By sparking the students' interests and leading them on a mission to register people to vote allowed the students to get a glimpse of the importance that this right has to offer them and the rest of the nation. Taking a dull lesson and making it age-appropriate, hands-on, collaborative (with peers, parents, teacher, and other professionals) allows for a more realistic foundation to be laid on which the students will continue to build their respective political views upon.
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