Democracy Corps: A Complete Service Learning Program

Learn about American democracy while serving your community. Serve your community while learning about the responsibilities of American democracy. YLI’s Democracy Corps brings your civics lessons to the community while instilling life- long civic engagement in your students.

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Standards

Common Core, C3, National Standards for Civics and Government, NCSS

Grades

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Subjects

Rights and Responsibilities

Issues

Civility

Resource Types

Essays, Photography, Editorial Cartoons, Oral Histories, Quizzes, Surveys, Lesson Plans, Research (Digests of Primary Sources)

Teaching Strategies

Individual Work, Primary Source, Writing, Case Study, Debate, Media, Project-Based Learning, Current Event, Simulation/Role-play, Whole Class, Whole Class Discussion, Whole Class Deliberation, Small Group, Small Group Discussion, Small Group Deliberation

Civic Days

Constitution Day, Fourth of July

Constitution Articles

Constitution Day, Meaning of Constitution

Tags

service learning, democracy, rights and responsibilities