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Making Civics Real

A multimedia workshop for high school civics teachers. It includes 8, 1-hour video programs, a print guide to the workshop activities, and a website. The goal of this workshop is to give teachers new resources and ideas to reinvigorate civic education. The series presents authentic teachers in diverse school settings modeling a variety of teaching techniques and best practices in a variety of social studies courses from a 9th-grade government/civics/econ course, to a 12th-grade law course

https://learner.org/series/making-civics-real/
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Resource provided by Annenberg Learner

Grades

8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Subjects

Citizenship

Issues

Civility, National Security, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Economy, Fiscal Responsibility

Resource Types

Modules (Teaching Unit), Lesson Plans, Primary Sources, Media, Video, Audio, Interactives, Assessments, Quizzes, Special Needs/Language Focus, Closed Captions

Teaching Strategies

Analysis, Whole Class, Small Group, Writing

Duration

480 minutes

Constitution Articles

Preamble, Article I, Article II, Article III, Article IV, Article V, Article VI, Article VII, First Amendment, Second Amendment, Third Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment, Seventh Amendment, Eighth Amendment, Ninth Amendment, 10th Amendment, 11th Amendment, 12th Amendment, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, 16th Amendment, 17th Amendment, 18th Amendment, 19th Amendment, 20th Amendment, 21st Amendment, 22nd Amendment, 23rd Amendment, 24th Amendment, 25th Amendment, 26th Amendment, 27th Amendment, Bill of Rights, Constitutional Convention

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civics, public policy, freedom of religion, civic engagement

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