Narrated by Bowdoin College Government Professor Andrew Rudalevige, "Founding Principles" provides an introductory overview and basic understanding to American government, but one that is crucial to building citizen-leaders, promoting civic engagement, and working toward the common good.
Chapter Fifteen reviews the important aspects of the American system of government and encourages viewers to use their knowledge to get involved in their own political world.

Narrated by Bowdoin College Government Professor Andrew Rudalevige, "Founding Principles" provides an introductory overview and basic understanding to American government, but one that is crucial to building citizen-leaders, promoting civic engagement, and working toward the common good.
Chapter Four discusses the power of the president and where the limits in power exist.

Narrated by Bowdoin College Government Professor Andrew Rudalevige, "Founding Principles" provides an introductory overview and basic understanding to American government, but one that is crucial to building citizen-leaders, promoting civic engagement, and working toward the common good.
Chapter One discusses how the American Government was formed in the late 1700s, including the creation of the Constitution.

Narrated by Bowdoin College Government Professor Andrew Rudalevige, "Founding Principles" provides an introductory overview and basic understanding to American government, but one that is crucial to building citizen-leaders, promoting civic engagement, and working toward the common good.
Chapter Six discusses public opinion and how it affects politics and governmental policy, as well as how data is gathered.

Narrated by Bowdoin College Government Professor Andrew Rudalevige, "Founding Principles" provides an introductory overview and basic understanding to American government, but one that is crucial to building citizen-leaders, promoting civic engagement, and working toward the common good.
Chapter Three discusses Congress and its power, and how it works and doesn't work for public interest.

In this lesson, students will learn about the US Constitution's guarantee of freedom of religion granted in the First Amendment. Focusing on Sikhism, students will explore the concepts of intolerance and prejudice as they relate to religion, learning the importance of education and open mindedness in combatting these issues. To culminate this lesson, students will work in groups to design and present an educational campaign focused on a particular religion and encouraging religious tolerance in general.

The purpose of this lesson is to help students research and investigate the world by looking at revolutions around the world and governments created as a result. In this 2 day lesson, students will look at revolutions in other parts of the world and compare and contrast them to the American Revolution. Students will examine causes of the French Revolution and will compare the types of governments that were overthrown and the new governments that were created to replace the old. Students will compare and contrast the Declaration of Independence (U.S.) and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (France). Students will also create presentations depicting other revolutions around the world and how similar/different they are to the American Revolution and the French Revolution. This lesson was developed by Dorothy Kerby as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

The purpose of this lesson is to help students gain a deeper understanding of how the United States government was formed, and the people/ideas that influenced the founding documents of the nation. In this lesson, students will evaluate the importance of the Articles of Confederation and identify the weaknesses that caused the delegates at the Constitutional Convention to create a new governing document. Students will be recognizing perspectives and communicating ideas about the Articles of Confederation. This lesson will consist of teacher facilitated notes and discussion opportunities that will prompt group and classroom conversation. This lesson was developed by Dorothy Kerby as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

The purpose of this lesson is to help students gain a deeper understanding of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights which contains their rights as citizens or future citizens of the United States of America. In this multi-day lesson, students will analyze the U.S. Constitution and discuss the many compromises that took place at the Constitutional Convention. They will inspect the 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution and choose one that they feel is most important and defend their choice in a written response. Students will be recognizing perspectives, communicating ideas, and taking action by analyzing the U.S. Constitution and choosing an amendment that is most important to them and writing a letter to a future generation of adolescents to explain and defend their chosen amendment. This lesson was developed by Dorothy Kerby as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

The purpose of this lesson is to help students gain a deeper understanding of the Declaration of Independence and perspectives of the founding fathers as they constructed this document . In this lesson, students will read and analyze the Declaration of Independence, while evaluating the impact it had on the American Revolution. To guide students in their analysis, each group will be assigned a specific task while analyzing the Declaration of Independence. Students will be recoznizing perspectives as they read and analyze the ideas put forth in the Declaration of Independence and other contributing theories that impacted the document. Students wil also be communicating ideas as they work in groups to discuss the components of the Declaration of Independence. This lesson was developed by Dorothy Kerby as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

This two-day lesson centers around a project that is designed to help students demonstrate knowledge of the key concepts and issues that they learned in this unit of study. They will be comparing and contrasting laws passed in the United States and South Africa regarding segregation and apartheid, respectively.This lesson was developed by Carolin Bethea-Brown as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

In this two-day lesson, students will analyze the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as well as laws passed at the state and federal levels that were used to systematically deny African Americans of their constitutional rights. Throughout the lesson students will draw comparisons between laws made in the United States with laws made by the apartheid government of South Africa.This lesson was developed by Caroline Bethea-Brown as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

This lesson is to be conducted over a two-day (90 minute block schedule) period. The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the role the federal government played in overturning laws that systematically undermined the 14th and 15th Amendments. During this process students will gain a better understanding of federalism, checks and balances, and judicial review. In addition, they will have the opportunity to compare and contrast laws passed in the United States with laws passed by the South Africa's apartheid government.This lesson was developed by Caroline Bethea-Brown as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

This lesson focuses on George Washington’s character and civic virtues and examines the connection between those virtues and fostering a democratic and free society in the United States.

In addition to regular course work in Civics & Economics, students will be required to complete a Civics Participation Project. This information lists options and instructions for students to get involved in different opportunities of interest. Students will complete a minimum of six hours of civic participation, obtain documentation of their participation, and reflect upon their experiences in writing.

In this lesson, students read primary and secondary source documents about the Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden and federalism. Students then answer analysis questions about the case. There is a teacher answer key included in the lesson.

In this lesson, students read primary and secondary source documents about the Supreme Court case Hammer v. Dagenhart and federalism. Students then answer analysis questions about the case. There is a teacher answer key included in the lesson.

This inquiring leads the students through an investigation about our current election process.  The students will receive a broad overview of how the US Presidential election process works.  At the end of the research the students will understand four key components to the presidential election process; being the Electoral College, influence of the media, role of interest groups and PACS, and the role of the voting citizenry. After learning about the election process and the “big players” the students will read through documents, analyze charts and infographics, and watch videos pertaining to the importance of voting. 

In this lesson, students acquire deeper understanding of the Constitution and its history and provide a reason for the study of the Constitution.

In this lesson, students are introduced to Tocqueville's argument about the "omnipotent" power of the majority in America and its consequences. After an initial statement that the "very essence" of democracy is majority rule, he contrasts the means by which state constitutions artificially increase the power of the majority with the U.S. Constitution, which checks that power.