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.

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: 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: 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.

TVIC: Food Labeling

The Today’s Vote in the Classroom program is a legislative simulation based on the Today’s Vote program delivered onsite at the Kennedy Institute. In this lesson, students will work collaboratively to create a new bill on the topic of Food Labeling.

TVIC: DACA and the DREAM Act

The Today’s Vote in the Classroom program is a legislative simulation based on the Today’s Vote program delivered onsite at the Kennedy Institute. In this lesson, students work collaboratively to create a new bill on the topic of DACA and improve the immigration process in the United States.