Tour your state capitol building or the U. Tell your counselor what you learned about the capitol, its function, and the history. Tour a federal facility. Explain to your counselor what you saw there and what you learned about its function in the local community and how it serves this nation.
Choose a national monument that interests you. Using books, brochures, the Internet with your parent's permission , and other resources, find out more about the monument. Tell your counselor what you learned, and explain why the monument is important to this country's citizens. Watch the national evening news five days in a row OR read the front page of a major daily newspaper five days in a row.
Discuss the national issues you learned about with your counselor. Choose one of the issues and explain how it affects you and your family. Discuss each of the following documents with your counselor. Tell your counselor how you feel life in the United States might be different without each one.
List the six functions of government as noted in the Preamble to the Constitution. Discuss with your counselor how these functions affect your family and local community. With your counselor's approval, choose a speech of national historical importance. Find out about the author, and tell your counselor about the person who gave the speech. Explain the importance of the speech at the time it was given, and tell how it applies to American citizens today.
Choose a sentence or two from the speech that has significant meaning to you, and tell your counselor why. Name the three branches of our federal government and explain to your counselor their functions. Explain how citizens are involved in each branch. For each branch of government, explain the importance of the system of checks and balances. Name your two senators and the member of Congress from your congressional district.
Write a letter about a national issue and send it to one of these elected officials, sharing your view with him or her. Show your letter and any response you receive to your counselor. Citizenship In The Nation Worksheet. Leonard I am a merit badge counselor and ASM.
It is my opinion that the worksheets were more user-friendly when they printed out with lines, instead of open boxes. Unless the scouts are typing directly into the form, the lines are better.
Thank you for considering my input. May 26, - Terry Eckberg Are the locations for requirement 2a and 2d the same and the main difference is 2a is a physical visit and 2d is more of a research effort? May 26, - Scouter Paul Terry - The requirements refer to two different places. National Monuments and Historic Places are different things.
There are about national monuments, but more like 90, historic places. So, any scout should be able to visit some historic place not too far away, but the closest national monument might be quite far. Jun 29, - Robert Can requirement 8 be in email form or do you actually have to write a letter? Jul 02, - Scouter Paul Robert - The requirement states "letter", not "email". But, the merit badge counselor may interpret that to include email.
During these videos I use that time to review scouts' worksheets and call them aside separately to go over various requirements with them. Discuss with your counselor how these functions affect your family and local community. With your counselor's approval, choose a speech of national historical importance.
Find out about the author, and tell your counselor about the person who gave the speech. Explain the importance of the speech at the time it was given, and tell how it applies to American citizens today. Choose a sentence or two from the speech that has significant meaning to you, and tell your counselor why. Name the three branches of our federal government and explain to your counselor their functions.
Explain how citizens are involved in each branch. For each branch of government, explain the importance of the system of checks and balances. Name your two senators and the member of Congress from your congressional district. Write a letter about a national issue and send it to one of these elected officials, sharing your view with him or her. Show your letter and any response you receive to your counselor. While the notion of citizenship makes only sense in the context of statehood, that is, the legal constructions that are limited by a territory, a nation, the classification of good or bad tends only to relate, in its most basic form, to how a person obeys the laws of the land as set by its government body and enforced by law officials and the courts.
Noting that since states tend to last longer than its governance, someone that is labeled a bad citizen today may receive accolades for that criticized behavior in future circles of governance, and vice versa. A good citizen also requires one to be attentive and an informed citizen and a participative citizen, by engaging in economic-political-social activities for the betterment of the state.
As such knowing the national issues and problems by following news broadcast and press is of extreme importance, but remaining aware that control of the media is the control of the discourse, even your own, so, one should seek as many divergent and independent viewpoints as possible. Duty is the sense of morality that guides the individual to perform a particular task or activity. Obligation can be understood as something that is imposed on an individual due to some framework such as legality.
Watch the national evening news five days in a row OR read the front page of a major daily newspaper five days in a row. Discuss each of the following documents with your counselor. Tell how you feel life in the United States might be different without each one. The Declaration of Independence was the newly established government's written document that asserted freedom from the rule of the English King, going as far as establishing the right of the people in overthrowing all tyranny and setting rules on how to preserve individual freedoms.
The Declaration of Independence is the document that legally establishes the United States as an independent nation and is at the core of all future legislations created by the U. The Preamble was the "table of contents" for the Constitution. It outlined the most important aspects of the document, and explained the reasoning for having a constitution.
It's important because it helps people to better understand the Constitution and why we have it. The Constitution enshrines the philosophy and reasoning behind the establishment of the U.
It is essentially an instruction manual. The Constitution is important because it establishes the basis of the country's social, legal and political structures. The Bill of Rights includes the first 10 amendments to the constitution. These are the basic rights of citizens of the United States. Life in the U. These basic rights are vital for a truly free country.
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