Civic Mirror Learning Modules

These modules cover entire units in game-like fashion, allowing students to experience course content like it’s used in the real world!

Written by talented Civic Mirror educators, these modules are dynamic and organic (instead of linear and static), and provide students with rich, contextualized learning experiences that lead to deep understandings and piercing insights.

Inspired by “backward design” pedagogy, each module opens by challenging students to complete a real world performance task. This produces the following benefits:

1. Provide students with a purpose for reading the curricular content,
2. Relate the curricular content to their Civic Mirror experience, which
3. Makes learning relevant and fun.

The CM Modules are flexible: the curricular content is academic and can be used with or without the performance tasks or the full Civic Mirror experience. Teachers can easily tailor them to their needs.

• Quick Civic Mirror
  (CM in 2-5 Classes)

  An abbreviated run of CM (till the Practice Run) followed by an activity on “Our Choices and their Consequences on Society.”

• Responsibilities of Democratic Citizenship

  Students consider the health of their simulated country’s democracy by exploring democratic rights, freedoms, and responsibilities.

• The Political-Economic Spectrum

  Challenges students to consider the full spectrum of political and economic ideologies before devising their own.

• Justice and the Judicial Branch

  Students explore the principles of democratic justice in order to give their simulated nation a “Lady Liberty” report card grade.

• Financial Planning
  (for Success!)

  Students must evaluate what financial concepts are the most important before producing a “Financial Success” infomercial.

• National Standards of Living

  In benchmarking their real-world and simulated nations against a standard-of-living index, students explore global issues like poverty.

• National Pursuits of Happiness

  Challenges students to determine what policies and initiatives governments should pursue to make their citizens most happy.

• Market Forces and Decision-Making

  Students master the laws of supply, demand, and other market forces to become decision-making ninjas and succeed in Civic Mirror.

• The Game of Canadian Politics

  Students learn about the Canadian electoral system and political parties by scripting themselves as an upstart MP who wins.

• Canada’s Democratic History

  Students must decide what historical events and developments have contributed most to Canadian democracy today.

• Canada’s System of Government

  Students learn how Canada’s system of government works in order to conduct a critical game review of Civic Mirror’s version of it.

• Government and the Economy

  

  — Coming Soon! —