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Being a Good Citizen

Clip art for teaching everyday responsibilities, fairness, honesty, voting, and helpful choices in elementary civics.

Citizenship gets clearer when the examples are ordinary choices instead of big slogans. That's where this set helps me, with a citizen kid holding a flag, helping hands, a rights-and-responsibilities scale, voting steps, a ballot box, a recycling bin, volunteer gloves, a peace sign, and a star citizen badge. The mix gives me concrete ways to talk about rules and looking out for other people.

This fits kindergarten through fifth-grade units on citizenship, classroom communities, government, and civic responsibility. I'd place the ballot box and empty ballot slip beside a mock class vote, then ask students to label the fair choices they made. The handshake, lost-and-found box, donation box, and watering can also help me build scenarios about honesty, sharing, service, and caring for a shared place. I can make a bright display with the color art, then let students annotate the same ideas on blackline civics pages.

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26 images
citizen_kid_flag
citizen_kid_flag
kid_helping_hand
kid_helping_hand
rights_responsibilities_scale
rights_responsibilities_scale
voting_steps_diagram
voting_steps_diagram
raised_hand_icon
raised_hand_icon
stop_sign_octagon
stop_sign_octagon
gavel_wood
gavel_wood
rulebook_stack
rulebook_stack
chore_chart_clipboard
chore_chart_clipboard
ballot_box_blue
ballot_box_blue
pinky_promise_hands
pinky_promise_hands
honest_heart_badge
honest_heart_badge
donation_box
donation_box
volunteer_gloves
volunteer_gloves
recycling_bin
recycling_bin
watering_can_plant
watering_can_plant
peace_sign_hand
peace_sign_hand
speech_bubble_heart
speech_bubble_heart
trophy_star
trophy_star
megaphone_red
megaphone_red
us_flag_pin
us_flag_pin
globe_heart
globe_heart
empty_ballot_slip
empty_ballot_slip
handshake_agreement
handshake_agreement
star_citizen_badge
star_citizen_badge
lost_and_found_box
lost_and_found_box
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