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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLandmark Library
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social Science(Create account to access) This library of mini-lessons targets a variety of landmark cases from the United States Supreme Court...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInterpreting the Constitution
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social Science(Create account to access) Students learn that you can't take constitutional language at face value. Those phrases we read in th...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMcCulloch v. Maryland
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social Science(Create account to access) Students learn about the landmark case McCulloch v. Maryland, in which the Supreme Court clarified wh...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJudges: Playing Fair
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social Science(Create account to access) This mini-lesson takes a look at the role of fair and impartial courts in American life. Students lea...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAppellate Courts: Let's Take It Up
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Civics(Create account to access) Students learn what happens in appellate-level courts and how those courts operate differently from t...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJames Bond in a Honda: Trial Simulation Lesson
Grades: 7 to 11Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social Science(Create account to access) Students participate in a scripted fictional trial based on a real case in which the producers of Jam...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJudicial Branch in a Flash!
Grades: 4 to 9Subjects: American Democracy, Civics(Create account to access) Need to teach the judicial branch in a hurry? In this lesson, students learn the basics of our judici...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink*NEW* Argument Wars Extension Pack
Grades: 5 to 9Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social Science(Create account to access) Make your students' game play more meaningful by using our activity and assessment set designed speci...Contributor: Deborah GenzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMini Mock Trial
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social ScienceMini-Mock Trials are shorter versions of mock trial, taking an average of 2-3 hours. They are helpful for teaching about trial p...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreating a Bill of Rights in Space
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: American Democracy, CivicsObjectives: Students will define "rights." Students will analyze and apply the U.S. Bill of Rights to hypothetical situations....Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpotlighting the First Amendment with a 5-Step Teaching Strategy
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social ScienceI am a San Marino High School (CA) social studies teacher who tells the students enrolled in my U.S. Government class that with ...Contributor: Los Angeles County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScottsboro Trial
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, students will read about and discuss the Scottsboro Trials from the 1930s. This miscarriage of justice clearly d...Contributor: San Diego County Civic Learning PartnershipViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching About Due Process and the Law
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social ScienceIn 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: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social ScienceThis 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 / HyperLinkBrown v. Board of Education Word Puzzle
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social ScienceLearn 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 / HyperLinkJourney to Topaz - An Argument With the Supreme Court
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social ScienceThis 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: Civics, Humanities, English Language Development, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkSeparate But Equal – Is It Black or White?
Grades: 5Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social ScienceThe 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 / HyperLinkPublic Service Announcement: Civic Responsibility
Grades: 5Subjects: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social ScienceThis 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: American Democracy, Civics, History-Social ScienceThis 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