This 75-minute activity explores the historical through lines between the 13th Amendment, incarceration, and prison labor including a case study analysis. Students will explore the ethics of incarceration, reflecting on rehabilitation, labor practices, prisoner wage and benefits, and workplace safety.
Reading Like a Historian Lessons for K-5
With the support of the Educating for American Democracy (EAD) participants and in collaboration with Los Angeles Unified School District, the Digital Inquiry Group has developed 10 new Reading Like a Historian lessons for K-5 classrooms aligned to the themes and design principles of the EAD Roadmap.
Voting Rights in America Timeline
This timeline explores when different groups of Americans gained the right to vote.
Today’s Vote: Voting Rights Restoration
In this lesson students will take on the role of senators to create, debate, and vote on new legislation regarding voting rights for formerly-incarcerated individuals in the United States.
Today’s Vote: Voting and Elections
In this lesson students will take on the role of senators to create, debate, and vote on legislation to improve election policy in the United States.
Today’s Vote: Regulation of Commercial Drones
In this lesson students will take on the role of senators to create, discuss, debate, and vote on new regulations regarding commercial drones in the United States.
Today’s Vote: Prescription Drug Pricing
In this lesson students will take on the role of senators to create, discuss, debate, and vote on a new bill related to prescription drug pricing in the United States.
Today’s Vote: The Minimum Wage
In this lesson, students take on the role of senators to craft, discuss, debate, and vote ona. new bill to raise the federal minimum wage in the United States.
Today’s Vote: Mandatory Minimum Sentences
In this lesson students take on the role of United States Senators to create, discuss, debate, and vote on legislation related to mandatory minimum sentences.
Today’s Vote: Intellectual Property
The program encourages students to think about representation in a democracy and examine important legislative issues within the structure of a Senate debate. In this lesson, students will work collaboratively to create a new bill on the topic of The Patent Act.