Civic Action Project

CRF’s Civic Action Project (CAP) is a project-based learning model for civics and government courses. It offers a practicum in effective citizenship by engaging high school students in civic activities both in and out of the traditional U.S. government course. By taking civic actions, students practice what real citizens do when they try to solve a real problem and issue that matters to them. As a result, they are able to see how the content of a government course can apply to the real world. Also, by using web-based technology and civics-based instruction and activities, students exercise important 21st century skills in digital literacy, critical thinking, collaboration, self-direction, and becoming informed and responsible citizens in a democracy. 

CAP website: www.crfcap.org 

Use the Toolkit to help with each step of your CAP.

Due Dates

CAP Deadlines

What will I be doing for CAP?

Proposal

Students prepare a proposal to persuade you that the problem/issue they want to work on is worthy of a long-term project. 

Thinking It Through

Students analyze causes/effects and propose their first civic action for your approval. 

Actions

Students report on their last civic action, track the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they gained, and propose their next civic action for approval. Just one person from each group will upload the completed document into Google Classroom.

You will be completing 4 actions for your project; these could be letters to a government official, social media campaign, and/or speaking to a governing board. Action #5: Invitation Letter - Each person will write their own letter, send it out, and upload it into Classroom.

Report, Sources, and Final Project

Sources

When you are almost finished with CAP, you will be asked to share your top five most valuable sources. (You should use way more than five sources!) Start collecting them now so you won’t have to backtrack. 

Click here for the Sources and Citations document


Report

Click Here to complete your CAP Report

Slide Presentation or PSA

Display

Include:


CAP Expo for the Community: Thursday, May 9th


Invitation Letter


You need to write and send a letter to a Congress Person or an Organization that has something to do with your CAP.


In your letter:

Each person in your group needs to write a letter to a different person/organization.  In other words, each person will be graded separately for this invitation letter.


Helpful Websites

City of Tucson Contacts

Contact Mayor & Council Members

Mayor Regina Romero by email: Mayor.Romero@tucsonaz.gov or phone: (520) 791-4201

Ward 1 Council Member Lane Santa Cruz by email: ward1@tucsonaz.gov or phone: (520) 791-4040

Ward 2 Council Member Paul Cunningham by email: ward2@tucsonaz.gov or phone: (520) 791-4687

Ward 3 Council Member Kevin Dahl by email: ward3@tucsonaz.gov or phone: (520) 791-4711

Ward 4 Vice Mayor - Council Member Nikki Lee by email: ward4@tucsonaz.gov or phone: (520) 791-3199

Ward 5 Council Member Richard Fimbres by email: ward5@tucsonaz.gov or phone: (520) 791-4231

Ward 6 Council Member Steve Kozachik by email: ward6@tucsonaz.gov or phone: (520) 791-460Clic1

Form to contact City Council: https://www.tucsonaz.gov/contact 

Governor Katie Hobbs

https://azgovernor.gov/ 

Innovation Tech High School is in:

Congressional District: 3      Legislative District: 02 

Click on the member's name to see what committees they are involved with and to see what issues they are working on.

The MAP Dashboard project was created to measurably improve Southern Arizona through data driven collective civic action and education. This website provides users with indicators on our region’s progress, as well as access to the latest information and research. MAP fills a gap by providing a common collection of information upon which to evaluate our community and collaborate to address our shared issues. 

Arizona Law