Civics 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?

Well, we came up with our game by brainstorming how we could incorporate civics into a fun game that was also possible to make. It relates to civic ideals because it teaches the player about the amendments.

Civics Engagement

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

I don't think the average American understands US Ideals very well. Since they don't understand them, they won't know how they are applied in government. If you don't know your rights then you won't know when they are being violated.

Civics Engagement

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.

Hi my name is Craig and my teammate is Jomar. 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 card match up game. The object is to flip over the cards and match the correct amendment to the defintion.
Here is our team page- http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/oghswiki/index.php/Team:Gruesome_Twosome