The Kid's Guide to Social Action: How to Solve the Social Problems You Choose - and Turn Creative Thinking into Positive Action
Newly revised, expanded, and updated, this award-winning guide includes everything kids need to make a difference in the world, from inspiring true stories to fill-out forms and up-to-date resources. The book includes step-by-step instructions for writing letters, doing interviews, making speeches, taking surveys, and more. B&W photos and illustrations.\ \ Resource guide for children for learning political action skills that can help them make a difference in...
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Newly revised, expanded, and updated, this award-winning guide includes everything kids need to make a difference in the world, from inspiring true stories to fill-out forms and up-to-date resources. The book includes step-by-step instructions for writing letters, doing interviews, making speeches, taking surveys, and more. B&W photos and illustrations.Children's LiteratureWhen I was a child, kids were told to be seen, not heard. Barbara Lewis dedicated her Kids Guide to Social Action to all children, with the wish that they be seen and heard. Throughout her step-by-step handbook, Ms. Lewis shows how young people, from elementary through high school, can be a positive force for change. Salt Lake City, Utah's Hawthorne Elementary youngsters, for example, started a newspaper recycling center and "KOPE"-Kids Organized to Protect the Environment-whose members planted a garden, organized their own Earth Day art fair, and started KOPE groups in other schools. In addition to how-to's (e.g. initiate or change laws), Ms. Lewis also includes such whereby's as "power" interviews, proposals, and letter writing; such where-to's as the names and addresses of government offices and contact groups; and assorted what-with's- petitions, letters, news releases and other such forms-for copying. Keep one copy of this extremely well-designed, practical, and useful resource in your classroom. And at least two in the library.
\ Children's Literature\ - Beverly Kobrin\ When I was a child, kids were told to be seen, not heard. Barbara Lewis dedicated her Kids Guide to Social Action to all children, with the wish that they be seen and heard. Throughout her step-by-step handbook, Ms. Lewis shows how young people, from elementary through high school, can be a positive force for change. Salt Lake City, Utah's Hawthorne Elementary youngsters, for example, started a newspaper recycling center and "KOPE"-Kids Organized to Protect the Environment-whose members planted a garden, organized their own Earth Day art fair, and started KOPE groups in other schools. In addition to how-to's (e.g. initiate or change laws), Ms. Lewis also includes such whereby's as "power" interviews, proposals, and letter writing; such where-to's as the names and addresses of government offices and contact groups; and assorted what-with's- petitions, letters, news releases and other such forms-for copying. Keep one copy of this extremely well-designed, practical, and useful resource in your classroom. And at least two in the library.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsFor the young (age 10 and up) and budding social activist, Lewis provides illustrative stories of kids who care and do, guides to the skills involved, sample forms (petitions, letters, news releases, etc.) and a resource guide with addresses and phone numbers. Published by Free Spirit Publishing, Inc., 400 First Avenue, North, Suite 616, Minneapolis, MN 55401. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
