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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy Do We Need Authority?
Grades: 7 to 8Subjects: Civics, American DemocracyIn this lesson you will learn some uses of authority. You will examine a situation in which there is no effective authority and...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy Do We Need a Government?
Grades: 7 to 8Subjects: Civics, American DemocracyThis lesson introduces you to some of the basic ideas which were of great importance to the Founders. They used these ideas when...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWho Are We?
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Civics, HumanitiesIn this lesson, students begin to explore the concept of community by describing their class as a collection of people with uniq...Contributor: Los Angeles County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhere We Fit In: The Judicial Branch
Grades: 5Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyThis is the second lesson in a unit designed to help students understand that the strength of our Democracy is equal to the ...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights?
Grades: 4 to 6Subjects: Civics, American DemocracySuppose your government does everything it can to protect your rights. Is this enough? Will your rights be protected? Do we hav...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat is Community?
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Civics, HumanitiesThis lesson is part of the following unit: Identity Community: An Introduction to 6th Grade Social Studies With Lesson 6, stud...Contributor: Los Angeles County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Is a Republican Government?
Grades: 4 to 6Subjects: Civics, American DemocracyThis lesson will help you understand why the Founders thought a republican form of government was best. You will also learn abo...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Intellectual Tools are Useful in Making Decisions about Issues of Corrective Justice?
Grades: 7 to 8Subjects: Civics, American DemocracyThis lesson introduces you to some intellectual tools which are useful in resolving issues of corrective justice. When you have...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Conflicting Opinions Did the Framers Have about the Completed Constitution?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Civics, American DemocracyThis lesson describes some conflicting points of view of leading Framers about the Constitution. Most of the delegates argued f...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat are the Possible Consequences of Privacy?
Grades: 7 to 8Subjects: Civics, American DemocracyThis lesson examines some of the possible consequences of privacy. You will classify these consequences as benefits or costs. La...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWe the Civics Kids Lesson 4: Principles of Justice and the Role of the Judiciary
Grades: 1 to 4Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyLesson four focuses on the principles of justice and the role of the judiciary. By following a young girl as she tries to recove...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWe the Civics Kids
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Civics, American DemocracyThis series of lessons teaches students about the election process and encourages them to be active citizens in their classroom,...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWe the Civics Kids
Grades: 4Subjects: Civics, American DemocracyThese materials were produced in partnership between the National Constitution Center and the Rendell Center for Citizenship and...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"We Came to Free the Slaves": John Brown on Trial
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyThroughout American history people have protested and broken the law. Once in court, they often have tried to use their trials t...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVoters and Judges
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyWhen trial judges preside over lawsuits and criminal trials, they make many legal rulings: Should this evidence be admitted? Sho...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUpton Sinclair, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harvey W. Wiley
Grades: 11Subjects: Civics, United States HistoryIn this lesson, students learn how Progressive reformers in government used the public outrage over Upton Sinclair's book The Ju...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnderstanding Procedural Justice
Grades: 4 to 7Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyObjectives: Students will analyze the concept of procedural justice by: identifying in a play the unfair decisions by the ruler...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTrial Court "Go Fish"
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American Democracy(Create account to access) Here, iCivics presents a judicial variation of the classic card game "Go Fish!" Students use a write-...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTown Hall Wall: Armed Conflict
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: Civics, American DemocracyThis Town Hall Wall asks students to respond and deliberate: Do America's cities have the right to ban handguns?Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTitanic Trial
Grades: 6 to 10Subjects: Civics, United States HistoryContributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0