Civic Engagement

Student teams from the function, ideals and citizenship community all asked questions this week dealing with the role of cooperation and collaboration in civic engagement. As a member of the ideals community, share one wiki artifact from your Team Page and the story behind it where you engaged in collaboration. How does this relate to civic ideals?


We brainstormed how we could help teach civic in a way that would be fun, but still educational. It relates to civic ideals because it teaches the player about the amendments.

Write a blog post to introduce yourself, your team and your game to the other students in the Ideals Community. Use the Ideals Resources information page to also explain how your game fits into the Ideals Knowledge Framework. Please include hyperlinks to your team page. This post must be a minimum of 5 complete sentences.

My name is Jomar and my teammate is Craig. Our team name is Gruesome Twosome. Our game fits into the ideals category because our game teaches about the rights of Americans that are provided by the amendments. Our game is a memory match up game. The object is to flip over the cards and match the correct amendment to the definition.

How well do you believe the average American citizen understands US Ideals and how they are applied in government? Why does it matter?

I'm Jomar Shaffer and i'm 18 years old. I believe that teens in todays world are not as well educated in this subject do to the lack of the education on civics within the school systems.