Pull the other one. It's got bells on it.
You can't tell me that children have no interest in politics. Seriously, have you ever sat down and WATCHED a group of children playing together? The topics are different, but you can bet your ass that once you look at it from the right angle, it suddenly looks like a congressional meeting, only things are happening a lot faster. You'll start to see cliques (read: political parties), each one with their own leader, and you'll see them argue over the basic things like what game do they play today.
Really, it's not that hard to get them interested in politics. All you have to do is make it relevant. Such as getting them to work as a group to write their own classroom rules. It's that simple.
And once they have the idea, THEN you can start teaching about the various levels of government, how they work, and how it pertains to them. (Because, let's face it, we got a whole slew of laws about the raising and care of children.)
You can't tell me that children have no interest in politics. Seriously, have you ever sat down and WATCHED a group of children playing together? The topics are different, but you can bet your ass that once you look at it from the right angle, it suddenly looks like a congressional meeting, only things are happening a lot faster. You'll start to see cliques (read: political parties), each one with their own leader, and you'll see them argue over the basic things like what game do they play today.
Really, it's not that hard to get them interested in politics. All you have to do is make it relevant. Such as getting them to work as a group to write their own classroom rules. It's that simple.
And once they have the idea, THEN you can start teaching about the various levels of government, how they work, and how it pertains to them. (Because, let's face it, we got a whole slew of laws about the raising and care of children.)