The textbook “I, Citizen” is a new resource for grades 5–8 that integrates economics and entrepreneurship, citizenship, and moral education (ethics) through geography, history, and other subjects. “I, Citizen” now also includes workbooks for grades 5–6 and 7–8 students.

The “I, Citizen” teaching textbook proposes integrating economics and entrepreneurship, citizenship, and moral education (ethics) across geography, history, and other disciplines. It is especially important that integration in lessons connects knowledge with real-world issues and students’ personal experience.

Responding to the education community’s need to update social studies materials, we seek to ensure high-quality, innovative development of social awareness by applying a phenomenon-based learning approach. We educate a young generation that understands that freedom, responsibility, and work are the only sustainable path to personal and societal prosperity.

In the program, students are invited to examine current social phenomena (for example, work, poverty, ecology, exchange, consumption) from personal, community, and global perspectives.

Textbook “I, Citizen”

• We aim for civic education through lived experience, using a phenomenon-based method.

• We help teachers of grades 5–8 encourage students’ social and civic engagement and economic literacy.

• We nurture young people who are free and socially responsible.

• We reveal the harmony among ethics, economics, and citizenship and its importance for developing a responsible personality.

• The textbook consists of 12 lessons. Each lesson is designed so that its relevance and complexity match the students’ age group and their social and cognitive development.

Lesson structure

• Each topic includes a recommended teaching sequence.

• Every topic aligns with the General Education Curriculum.

• Each topic consists of three or more sections.

• Sections are designed so the issue is discussed from personal, community, and global perspectives.

• Each section has a different duration — 15 to 30 minutes.

• • Every topic includes an infographic summarizing the material.

Workbooks “I, Citizen”

• Intended for grades 5–6 and 7–8; the tasks in the textbook are grouped by grade bands.

• Tasks address different learning styles.

• The workbooks include not only academic tasks but also creative ones.

• Tasks develop multiple competencies: citizenship, cognition, creativity, social, emotional and healthy living, and digital.

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