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Civics Common Core W.9-10.1d resources
Legislative Branch Activity: Classroom Simulation on How a Bill Becomes a Law
Make civics practical and exciting for students using this Social Studies simulation that allows students to experience the Legislative Branch! Students will participate in writing bills for their school, community, or state while learning the various stages within the lawmaking process. All voices are heard as students become members of Congress, participate in committees, debate on the floor, and watch their President sign the bills that survive the entire process. Not only do students love
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6th - 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
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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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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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
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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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
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
Current Event Dissection
Whether you teach English, social studies, history, science, math, or any elective content, current events deserve a space in your curriculum. Keep your content relevant and fresh by forcing students to build connections between what's going on in the news and what you're learning about in the classroom!This current event "dissection" guides students as they practice perusing vetted sources (list provided), detecting bias, selecting articles of interest, objectively summarizing, reflecting and a
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6th - 12th
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