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12c. Who Pays for Education?

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12c. Who Pays for Education?

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Public education is the single largest expenditure for state and local governments across the nation. Yet it is arguably the most criticized. Many people charge that public schools are faltering and that American academic achievements are far behind those in other countries. In recent years, many states and localities have experimented with improving public schools.

Subject:: Business and Information Technology; Career and Technical Education; Civics and Government; Social Studies
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Reading
Provider:: Independence Hall Association
Provider Set:: American Government
Date Added:: 01/31/2018

The 14th Amendment — Civics 101: A Podcast

The 14th Amendment — Civics 101: A Podcast

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The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States. It also granted them equal protection under the laws and guaranteed due process of law. Those are considered its most important provisions today. That wasn't always the case, however. Why did it take so long for the Supreme Court to affirm these provisions of this significant Amendment, and what does that say about politics at the highest court in the land?

Our guide to the 14th Amendment is Aziz Huq, professor of law at the University of Chicago School of Law.

Subject:: Civics and Government; Social Studies; U.S. History
Material Type:: Lecture
Author:: Hannah Mccarthy
Date Added:: 06/14/2023

The 1965 Voting Rights Act: Where Does It Stand? — Civics 101: A Podcast

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The 1965 Voting Rights Act: Where Does It Stand? — Civics 101: A Podcast

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We needed an Act of Congress to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment. Is it still doing its job?

It came after decades of discrimination, violence and disenfranchisement -- President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965, "an Act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States." That Act worked. In the decades since, though, states and the Supreme Court have changed what that Act means and can do.

Our guides to this sweeping legislation are Sonni Waknin of the UCLA Voting Rights Project and Gary May, author of Bending Towards Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy.

Subject:: Civics and Government; Social Studies; U.S. History
Material Type:: Other
Author:: Christina Phillips
Date Added:: 07/03/2023

The 19th Amendment: Primary Sources

The 19th Amendment: Primary Sources

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These primary sources follow the content and narrative structure of the Annenberg Classroom film “The 19th Amendment: A Woman’s Right to Vote.”

Handout includes poems, songs, photos, papers, as well as highlights important people and events associated with the 19th amendment.

Subject:: Civics and Government; Social Studies; U.S. History
Material Type:: Primary Source; Reading; Reference Material
Author:: Annenberg Classroom
Date Added:: 06/12/2023

1rst grade Cultivating Genius Framework science "How do human interactions negatively affect sea turtles and how can we help the turtles and other animals survive? "

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1rst grade Cultivating Genius Framework science "How do human interactions negatively affect sea turtles and how can we help the turtles and other animals survive? "

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Details: This lesson can be added to the Amplify first grade science unit: Animal and Plant Defenses: Spikes, Shells, and Camouflage. It can also be used with any unit on animal defenses and structures.Amplify Chapter 3 Driving Question: How can Spruce the Sea Turtle’s offspring survive where there are sharks? Pursuit addressed:Toward the pursuit of Skills: Students participate in a class reading of an informational text. Students use the information outlined in the text to develop their knowledge of plastic pollution and its negative impact on sea turtles and the environment. They then use this knowledge to inform others or take other steps to help with reducing plastic pollution.Toward the pursuit of Intellect: In this lesson students learn about a topic that affects the environment and specifically how plastic waste affects sea turtles which they have been studying. They can better understand an environmental problem and turn their understanding into action.

Subject:: Biology; Character Education; Civics and Government; Ecology; Elementary Education; Environmental Literacy and Sustainability; Environmental Science
Material Type:: Lesson
Author:: The genius group from Madison Wisconsin
Date Added:: 07/31/2022

2021 Tournament of Presidents (Bracketology)

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2021 Tournament of Presidents (Bracketology)

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This ‘Tournament of Presidents’ activity gives students an opportunity to evaluate the presidents using a "bracket style" competition. Students will examine individual leadership characteristics that are key to the success of the chief executive. Students will utilize C-SPAN Presidential resources with special emphasis on the C-SPAN's 2021 Historians Survey of President Leadership.

Subject:: Civics and Government; Social Studies; U.S. History
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson; Lesson Plan; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:: C-SPAN
Date Added:: 06/29/2022

21st Century American Government and Politics v.1.0

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21st Century American Government and Politics v.1.0

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Textbook focusing on American Government and the specificities of the American political system. In covering American government and politics, this text:
• introduces the intricacies of the Constitution, the complexities of federalism, the meanings of civil liberties, and the conflicts over civil rights;
• explains how people are socialized to politics, acquire and express opinions, and participate in political life;
• describes interest groups, political parties, and elections—the intermediaries that link people to government and politics;
• details the branches of government and how they operate; and
• shows how policies are made and affect people’s lives.

Subject:: Civics and Government; Social Studies
Material Type:: Textbook
Author:: David L. Paletz; Diana Owen; Timothy E. Cook
Date Added:: 12/29/2012

The 25th Amendment — Civics 101: A Podcast

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When a monarch dies, power stays in the family. But what about a president? It was a tricky question that the founders left mostly to Congress to figure out later. Lana Ulrich, of the National Constitution Center, and Linda Monk, constitutional scholar and author of The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, explain the informal rules that long governed the transition of presidential power, and the 25th Amendment, which currently outlines what should happen if a sitting president dies, resigns, or becomes unable to carry out their duties.

Subject:: Civics and Government; Social Studies
Material Type:: Other
Author:: Christina Phillips
Date Added:: 06/27/2023

4 Service-Learning Project Ideas to Promote Civic Engagement

4 Service-Learning Project Ideas to Promote Civic Engagement

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4 Service-Learning Project Ideas to Promote Civic Engagement from Population Education

These are service learning, not volunteer projects that students can construct that focus on their community and contemporary events.

Subject:: Civics and Government; Social Studies
Material Type:: Assessment; Learning Task
Author:: Population Education
Date Added:: 08/03/2022

6-8 Social Studies/Civics Suggested Scope & Sequence: Based on the Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies (2018)

6-8 Social Studies/Civics Suggested Scope & Sequence: Based on the Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies (2018)

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The Wisconsin Social Studies/Civics 6-8 Suggested Scope & Sequence is divided by grade. The writing team decided this because they wanted to be able to build upon previous learning, and if the three courses were listed at any grade, educators would not be able to count on what was happening the year before. Therefore, we offer the
following order of courses:
• 6th Grade: Geography & Cultures of the World: Yesterday and Today
• 7th Grade: Civics & Our Contemporary World
• 8th Grade: Wisconsin & U.S. Studies (Thematic, 1924 – Present Day)

Civics and Social Studies are integrative by nature. Focusing on themes over dates, names, and battles can help students visualize the connections between strands of social studies better and learn to see the bigger picture while still meeting our state standards and expectations. Instead of viewing events in isolation, a thematic approach allows
students to better see connections and patterns across time. In addition, it assists teachers in helping students make connections to their own lives, identities, and current issues.

Each course is thematic, based in inquiry, has a civics lens, and is aligned to the Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies and the National Council for the Social Studies Themes of Social Studies. The courses all have the same units, focused on the strands of social studies (Inquiry, Behavioral Sciences, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science) in a thematic manner through the subject area. Every year starts with an inquiry unit to build inquiry skills and dispositions.

Each unit is further divided into planning ideas tied to middle school indicators from the Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies (2018). These planning ideas include:
• Potential Essential Questions, aligned to the standards
• NCSS theme of this unit
6-8 Social Studies/Civics: Suggested Scope and Sequence 8
• Focusing Questions for the Topic
• Recommended Inquiry Topics
• Specific Social Studies Indicators met with this unit
• Important Terms and Points to Consider
• Supporting Resource Providers to Consider

The essential and focusing questions are meant to help guide instruction and determine quality resources and lessons for use in the classroom. The recommended inquiry topics are provided to assist specific content choices for the unit.

We recognize this work is not as complete as the K-5 recommended scope & sequence. Where the K-5 team started with a framework similar to this document, the 6-8 started from scratch. We anticipate a more robust 6-8 document similar to the current released K-5 to be released by summer 2024.

Subject:: American Indian Studies; Ancient History; Civics and Government; Economics; Ethnic Studies; Gender Studies; Geography; Psychology; Religious Studies; Social Studies; Sociology and Anthropology; U.S. History; World Cultures; World History
Material Type:: Curriculum Map
Author:: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction; Kristen McDaniel
Date Added:: 01/12/2024

9 Classroom Resources on Genocide

9 Classroom Resources on Genocide

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In accordance with Genocide Awareness Month, Facing History offers nine classroom resources educators can utilize to help their students think critically about the specific historical and contemporary conditions under which genocides occurred to effectively unite head, heart, and conscience.

Subject:: Civics and Government; Ethnic Studies; Geography; Religious Studies; Social Studies; Sociology and Anthropology; World Cultures; World History
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Learning Task; Lesson Plan
Author:: Facing History and Ourselves; Kaitlin Smith
Date Added:: 11/02/2023

9th and 10th Grade Informational Text - 1941 FDR State of the Union

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This resource is a multi-day lesson plan that guides students through the close reading process of an informational text. Using the 1941 FDR State of the Union address, components of informational text including: organization, context, and rhetoric are analyzed. This resource combines lessons plans, primary text, read aloud of the text, informational video, and text complexity / vocabulary Analysis.

Subject:: Civics and Government; Social Studies
Material Type:: Learning Task; Lesson Plan; Primary Source; Reading
Provider:: Learnzillion
Date Added:: 12/28/2015

AIDS and Poverty in Africa, Spring 2005

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AIDS and Poverty in Africa, Spring 2005

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This is a discussion-based interactive seminar on the two major issues that affect Sub-Saharan Africa: HIV/AIDS and Poverty. AIDS and Poverty, seemingly different concepts, are more inter-related to each other in Africa than in any other continent. As MIT students, we feel it is important to engage ourselves in a dynamic discussion on the relation between the two - how to fight one and how to solve the other.

Subject:: Civics and Government; Social Studies
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Bobbili, Raja
Date Added:: 01/01/2005

THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: TAKING ACTION FOR ACCESS

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By analyzing various primary and secondary sources, students will determine how citizen activism among the disabled community led to the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. After reviewing ADA provisions that improved access to public facilities and the workplace, students will identify continued areas of need for people with disabilities and develop public service announcements that promote personal responsibility for maintaining accessibility

Subject:: Civics and Government; Social Studies; U.S. History
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson; Student Guide
Author:: IA; Nashua; Suzan Turner--Nashua-Plainfield High School
Date Added:: 05/22/2024

Abraham Lincoln: Man versus Legend

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Abraham Lincoln: Man versus Legend

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In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham Lincoln in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of who Lincoln was. They investigate primary source documents in order to analyze the elements of Lincoln's life that have become legend and those that have been forgotten by history.

Subject:: Civics and Government; English Language Arts; Reading Informational Text; Social Studies; U.S. History
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Author:: PBS Learning Media
Date Added:: 07/31/2022

Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress

Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress

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The papers of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), lawyer, representative from Illinois, and sixteenth president of the United States, contain approximately 40,550 documents dating from 1774 to 1948, although most of the collection spans from the 1850s through Lincoln’s presidency (1861-1865). Roughly half of the collection, more than 20,000 documents, comprising 62,000 images, as well as transcriptions of approximately 10,000 documents, is online. Included on this website in their entirety are Series 1-3 of the Lincoln Papers and the original materials in Series 4. Excluded from this online presentation is a sizeable portion of Series 4, which consists of printed material and reproductions of government and military documents made from originals in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Treasures in the collection include Lincoln’s first and second inaugural addresses, his preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, the two earliest known copies of the Gettysburg Address (the Nicolay and Hay copies), his August 23, 1864, memorandum expressing his expectation of being defeated for re-election in the upcoming presidential contest, and a condolence letter written to Mary Todd Lincoln by Queen Victoria following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The Lincoln Papers are characterized by a large number of correspondents, including friends and associates from Lincoln’s Springfield days, well-known political figures and reformers, and local people and organizations writing to their president.

Subject:: Civics and Government; Social Studies; U.S. History
Material Type:: Primary Source
Date Added:: 05/16/2023

Abraham Lincoln and Executive Power

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This supplemental lesson/activity from the Center for Civic Education looks at the concept of executive power and the challenges Lincoln faced as president. Students are asked to analyze and evaluate President Lincoln's decisions as they relate to decisions made during the Civil War.

Subject:: Civics and Government; Social Studies; U.S. History
Material Type:: Lesson Plan
Author:: Center for Civic Education; John J. Patrick
Date Added:: 08/16/2022

Academy for American Democracy, Part 1: Geography, From Athens to America

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Geography is a major factor in the development of every civilization, including ancient Athens. Learn the ways in which the natural features of Athens helped...

Subject:: Civics and Government; Geography; Social Studies; World History
Material Type:: Homework/Assignment; Learning Task
Author:: Tang Academy for American Democracy; New York Historical Society
Date Added:: 06/12/2023

Advanced Workshop in Writing for Social Sciences and Architecture (ELS), Spring 2007

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Advanced Workshop in Writing for Social Sciences and Architecture (ELS), Spring 2007

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Advanced subject focusing on techniques, format, and prose style used in academic and professional life. Emphasis on writing as required in fields such as economics, political science, and architecture. Short assignments include: business letters, memos, and proposals that lead toward a written term project. Methods designed to deal with the special problems of those whose first language is not English. Successful completion satisfies Phase II of the Writing Requirement. This workshop is designed to help you write clearly, accurately and effectively in both an academic and a professional environment. In class, we analyze various forms of writing and address problems common to advanced speakers of English. We will often read one another's work.

Subject:: Art and Design; Civics and Government; English Language Arts; Fine Arts; Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Social Studies
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Brennecke, Patricia W.
Date Added:: 01/01/2007

Agent of Change — KidCitizen

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How did photographers help convince Congress to pass child labor laws? We will explore some of Lewis Hine’s photographs that exposed child working conditions and advocated for child labor laws to protect children.
We will investigate the photographer who captured the photos to understand the sourcing of information as part of a historical inquiry.
In this episode, students will engage in careful observation to identify objects and note details (See), generate and test hypotheses based on evidence they have collected (Think), and reflect on their learning by applying it to related questions (Wonder). A key focus is to consider source information and identify aspects of a primary source that reveal a photographer’s point of view or purpose.

Subject:: Civics and Government; Education; Elementary Education; Social Studies; U.S. History
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Author:: Kid Citizen
Date Added:: 06/10/2022