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Civics Common Core W.9-10.1b 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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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
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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Civics Survivor
Civics Survivor is a role-playing game designed originally for the grade 10 Civics course in Ontario’s curriculum but is well-suited for any course in Middle or High School that covers civics related material.
The game enables students to build their own civilization on a desert island, leading them through managing resources, ordering civil life, and creating foreign policy.
The game, which requires 5 days, can serve as an introductory activity to a civics course, or as a review activity at
Serial Podcast/Justice System Unit
This bundle contains a unit plan for using season 1 of the Serial podcast, 12 Angry Men and the Bill of Rights for teaching. The PPT focuses solely on the Serial podcast portion and is focused on ELA skills and standards. However, it can also be used DBQ style for Civics. The attached rubric and checklist are rfor the evidence board project for Serial in which students must evaluate the evidence, make claims and counterclaims and write an argument.
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9th - 10th
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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Is the US a Democracy or a Republic?
Students will look at sources to help them determine what type of a government they think the US really has. (I share with students my opinion, but ask them to determine this on their own).
This activity asks students to analyze short primary sources, explain their analysis and compare and contrast the characteristics of a democracy and a republic- All in one! If your students haven't been introduced to a DBQ yet, but need the practice, this will help prepare them for the many skills involved
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7th - 12th
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Unit Plan: Understanding the Judicial Process Unit - ELA and Civics Standards
This unit combines both ELA and Civics standards and can be taught in either course. The unit combines an understanding of central idea, development of central ideas, the judicial system and relevant and reliable evidence. It uses texts such as Serial season one, 12 Angry Menand the Bill of Rights. This plan includes suggested products and assessments, reading comprehension tasks, writing tasks and more. This can optionally be paired with the Serial unit PowerPoint in my store. The PPT only focu
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9th - 10th
Also included in: Serial Podcast/Justice System Unit
Opinion Writing Prompts: Write about the President ⭐ Social Studies History ELA
10 Opinion Writing Prompts about Presidents on Lined Paper. These thought-provoking writing prompts will work well with upper middle school students through adult education to get your learners expressing opinions about Presidents. Five of the prompts are more basic, but the other five require more in-depth thought. Use these printable writing prompts year after year in your government, history, or civics class! Check out the preview to see the exact prompts. Great to use on Presidents Day or al
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9th - 12th
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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
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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