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Civics Common Core W.11-12.1b resources
Stock Market Game: An Online Activity, & Simulation | Teach Students Investing
Studying the stock market can be difficult, yet life-changing if studied properly! For years I have wanted to help students grasp a comfortable understanding of the stock market. Through semesters of tweaking and formulating, I have come up with this resource that students and teachers alike can approve of! Students will enter an online game, watch their stock returns, write reflection papers, draft summaries of their investment companies, chart returns, and create a reflection of their entire
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9th - 12th
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United States Constitution Bundle: Scavenger Hunt, Articles, Convention Notes...
This bundle contains all of Mister Harms' resources on the United States Constitution. By choosing the bundle you are saving 20%! You also get the convenience of having all of these high-quality resources for your American History, Civics, and/or Government classes in one place! Scroll up to see the resources within this bundle. Enjoy!Thank You!Thanks so much for stopping by! It's great to meet you! I hope this resource adds value to your classroom. If you have time, I'd love for you to leave
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Social Justice Speech Project | Printable & Digital
Engage students in social justice--online or in-person--with this speech project! With this Social Justice Speech Project, students will deliver a speech on a social justice topic of their choosing. First, students will select a social justice topic. Then, they'll research it. Next, students will outline a speech that introduces the issue, explains the problem, and offers a solution while delivering a call-to-action. After practicing their speech with a peer, they'll deliver the speech to the cl
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Social Justice Literature Circle Unit Bundle: Black Lives Matter
CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE UNIT PLAN: Lessons, PwPt, Videos, Worksheets!
Teach Congressional Debate in 5 weeks with this detailed unit plan! Product includes:A scale to be used throughout the unit, including Florida standards.Lesson plans complete with bellwork, direct instruction, activities, and exit tickets as well as ideas for modification, enhancement, and VIRTUAL learning.A PowerPoint presentation with 248 slides to take you step by step through the lessons (as well as a PDF version if you prefer that format).Original videos, each appro
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Presidents Day Writing Activity: How to Write a Letter to the President ⭐ Civics
Formal Letter Writing Unit: How to Write a Letter to Politicians: This complete letter writing unit will equip your students with basic skills that will last them a lifetime. From addressing the envelope to content to formatting, this resource has you covered. Perfect for high school and middle school civics, social studies, history classes, citizenship, and adult education! Check out the preview to see each page of the resource!This resource is perfect for Presidents Day, but it is always rel
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9th - 12th
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Love Letter to a US Amendment: Government Civics Valentine's Writing Activity
This fun Valentine's Day writing activity allows students to show their creative or funny side without getting behind in content. This writing activity requires students to use historical claims to write a love letter to their favorite amendment. Suitable for Civics, US Government, or Comparative Government.IncludesScaffolded instruction page and resource websitesThree Differentiated pages: one scaffolded for ELL/IEP/504 with checklist rubric, one with lines and checklist rubric, and one with a
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Criminal Law - Full Year Course for High School Students
Criminal Law is a year long course that uses situations close to students' experiences to examine and analyze issues in criminal law. It both explains laws and concepts and provides numerous examples and exercises to help students absorb, grapple, engage with, and master the material. Students will analyze Supreme Court cases and apply legal precedent to new facts and and hypotheticals. The skills focus includes reading comprehension, critical thinking, persuasive writing and analytical readi
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10th - 12th
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First Amendment Free Speech Course
Welcome to the First Amendment! This is a one-semester course intended for high school juniors and seniors. This course provides an in-depth curriculum that will immediately engage students through the use of subject matter and examples that are close to their experience. The content covers First Amendment free speech that is relevant to students and impacts education settings. The text provides explanations of legal concepts and numerous examples and exercises to help students absorb the mat
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10th - 12th
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Structure of Government - Textbook and Debate
This activity provides secondary government students with a solid background on the structure of governments - not only in the USA but around the world!Included in this resource is a slide-deck of Google slides with an engaging "Monty Python" hook video where your class can brainstorm how governments related to the video clip. In addition, students will use an open-source government textbook (link included) to gain background knowledge on the structure of government. The concluding "exit ticke
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6th - 12th
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Social Issue Media Campaign and Project
This project is about creating a media campaign around 1 of 10 social issues prevalent around the world. There is a letter to the editor, creating media (either through a blog or other resource), and creating a PSA. This engages students in civic issues and can be paired with lessons or books surrounding social issues. These documents have instructions, resources, examples, and the rubric.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in: American Born Chinese- all lessons & materials for a quarter
Research Writing Project: Healthcare in the US (checklist and rubric)
This project asked students to research a demographic in the US and investigate their access to healthcare and their common health needs. Students are graded on their research, vocabulary and grammar. They must include a call to action and include necessary steps to make that call to action happen.
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9th - 12th
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Civic Engagement "Dear Neighbor" Project
This is an amazing three-ish day project about Civics, Persuasive Writing, Collaborative Revision, and Public Speaking! Overall project flow:* Students reflect on their priorities, biases, and reasons for supporting their chosen candidate in an upcoming election.* Students peer-edit their letters, revising arguments for grammar and persuasive power.* Teams of students campaign for their chosen candidate, collaborating to write a Platform Speech they present to the class.* As campaign staffers,
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Peer Speech Feedback Worksheet (Distance Learning)
Encourage collaboration and speech rehearsal with this Peer Speech Feedback Worksheet! This double-sided handout breaks down speech presentation into three areas--content, voice, and body language--to help students leave value feedback for one another while rehearsing speech projects. Before presenting a speech to the class or uploading one to the web, students need to practice. However, they rarely do unless class time is given for it. With this worksheet, students will be given the space to pr
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Social Justice Literature Circle Unit Bundle: Black Lives Matter
Template for Civic Engagement "Dear Neighbor" Letter
This is the template I created to engage my neighbors re: 2020 Election season. I shared my background and biases, my top priorities, and who I am supporting in this year's election. It's part of an amazing three-ish day project about Civics, Persuasive Writing, Collaborative Revision, and Public Speaking! See my Implementation Guide for more details!This project is an amazing way to have students think about their priorities, learn to get involved, learn their ward number and local election
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Civic Engagement "Dear Neighbor" Project
McCarthyism: Exploring Ethical and Unethical Politics
What kind of politic is "dirty"? Who distinguishes between political right and wrong? this activity requires students to draw an ethical line in a case study of political ethics.
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9th - 12th
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Social Science Teacher Resource Websites
This is a list of all my favorite websites that I use to help me plan as a social science teacher. I send this to all my new teacher-candidates that I work with throughout the year.
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HS-LS4-1
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