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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching About Due Process and the Law
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyIn this lesson, students will be presented with various cases of discrimination. They will identify the discriminatory practice,...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSalem Witch Trials
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyThis lesson centers around a short play in which the accused person is given an obviously unfair trial. Students are asked to di...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeen Curfew
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyIn this lesson, students will consider a proposed teen curfew law in a mock city council session. The class is divided into grou...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBrown v. Board of Education Word Puzzle
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyLearn about a landmark Supreme Court ruling with this word puzzle. In 1954, the court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that ...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 / HyperLinkThe First Amendment - Free Exercise, Freedom of Religion: A Case in Point
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyThis unit will complement or begin study on the First Amendment of the Constitution as it relates to freedom of religion. Studen...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJourney to Topaz - An Argument With the Supreme Court
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyThis unit begins following the reading of a historical fiction, Journey to Topaz (independent, and/or read aloud, 6-8th grade in...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNo, David! - Introduction to the Rule of Law
Grades: 4 to 5Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Civics, English Language Development, HumanitiesThis unit focuses on the rule of law and the impartiality of the courts, requiring students to act as a jury, writing and presen...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 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 / HyperLinkSeparate But Equal – Is It Black or White?
Grades: 5Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyThe school year will begin by building a community in the class. The students will choose a class name and create a logo for the...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Rule of Paradox: The Rule of Law
Grades: 5Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyThis lesson is the 3rd lesson for the unit outline which centers on of the necessity for rules. Students have had the opportun...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPublic Service Announcement: Civic Responsibility
Grades: 5Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyThis is the final lesson in a unit designed to help students understand E Pluribus Unum (Out of many, One), and that personal ...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProtecting our Freedoms: The Bill of Rights
Grades: 3Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyThis standards-based lesson is the second in a series of three lessons that address the connection between the Preamble of the...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPlanet Fourth Grade is Researching the U.S. Constitution
Grades: 4Subjects: Civics, American DemocracyStudents have been working on dissecting the U.S. Constitution, reviewing the frameworks of a democratic government, and learni...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOut Of Many, One: Our Nation's Symbols
Grades: 5Subjects: Civics, American DemocracyThis lesson is the first lesson in a unit and is centered around the idea of the importance/relevance/significance of our nation...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOur Government Today…What A System!
Grades: 5Subjects: Civics, American DemocracyThis lesson (which will take place over several class periods) is the first in a series of three in the unit. It is designed to...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNational Symbols
Grades: 3Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American Democracy, United States HistoryThis lesson introduces national symbols, landmarks and monuments and what they stand for. Once students begin to understand the...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Do We Solve Our Problems? (¿Cómo resolvemos nuestros problemas?): The Three Branches
Grades: 2Subjects: Civics, American DemocracyThis lesson follows a lesson introducing the 3 branches of government. Students already have an understanding of how laws are ma...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Great Debate: U.S. Supreme Court Cases
Grades: 5Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyThis lesson follows the unit on the formation of the U.S.government and the U.S. Constitution in the student pop culture debat...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGraffiti on Trial
Grades: 3Subjects: History-Social Science, Civics, American DemocracyStudents will prepare for a mock trial in the classroom by examining the parts of an actual courtroom and then creating a floo...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0