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The ABCs of Citizenship
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In this lesson, students will read and analyze an Alphabet Book for Young Citizens to reinforce their understandings of the distinctions between a right, a responsibility, and a provilege. They will then use the pages in their books to create a Citizen's Bulletin Board, an exhibit on citizenship, and civic improvisations that provide students with opportunities to deepen and apply their understandings. Students will begin exercising their rights and responsibilities with a better understanding of how such actions help secure their liberties and freedom.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration
Date Added:
04/21/2017
The ABCs of Citizenship - Alphabet Book for Young Citizens
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This book is to be used with the lesson "The ABCs of Citizenship." In this lesson, students will read and analyze the Alphabet Book for Young Citizens to reinforce their understandings of the distinctions between a right, a responsibility, and a privilege. They will then use the pages in their books to create a Citizen's Bulletin Board, an exhibit on citizenship, and civic improvisations that provide students with opportunities to deepen and apply their understandings. Students will begin exercising their rights and responsibilities with a better understanding of how such actions help secure their liberties and freedom.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration
Date Added:
04/21/2017
The Election
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In this lesson students will participate in an election. They will be asked to vote for one of four candidates wihtout knowing who they are or what they stand for. After the election, students will learn who the candidates were. This lesson is designed to help students understand that the security of freedom and individual rights in a democratic society depends upon a citizenry that remains informed.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration
Date Added:
04/21/2017
Emergent
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In this lesson, students are placed in a role-playing scenario that builds off of the one described in the book/movie entitled "Divergent." A group of revolutionaries calling themselves "Emergent" organizes factions that must develop expertise on different aspects of the Bill of Rights. Students use their faction's expertise to collaboratively stop the "Secret Committee Against Rights for Everyone."

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration
Date Added:
04/21/2017
Emergent - Presentation
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This supplemental presentation is to be used with the lesson "Emergent." In this lesson, students are placed in a role-playing scenario that builds off of the one described in the book/movie entitled "Divergent." A group of revolutionaries calling themselves "Emergent" organizes factions that must develop expertise on different aspects of the Bill of Rights. Students use their faction's expertise to collaboratively stop the "Secret Committee Against Rights for Everyone."

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Presentation
Provider:
University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration
Date Added:
04/21/2017
Erutan
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In this lesson, students will construct their own understanding of the purposes and powers of government by thinking through a scenario in which a group of people survive a near extinction-level but are returned to a life without government. This lesson is designed to help students understand why governments exist and why they are given certain powers.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration
Date Added:
04/21/2017
Fairy Tails Can Show Due: It Can Happen For You, If You Play Your Part - State v. Gold E. Locks
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In this lesson, students will engage in, or view, a Reader's Theater focusing on the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The story will be used as a springboard into a videotaped mock trial of Gold E. Locks developed by the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). Students will be challenged to identify and explain how Goldilocks benefits from due process provisions found in the US Bill of Rights.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration
Date Added:
04/21/2017
Have Plans Changed?
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In this lesson, students will compare and contrast the introduction to the Articles of Confederation and the Preamble to the United States Constitution to uncover change over time from 1777 to 1787 and identify at least one important principle in the new Constitution.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration
Date Added:
04/26/2017
Our Nation's Report Card
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In this lesson, students will reflect on the principles upon which this nation was founded as well as the major events that have shaped this nation to address the question: to what extent have the American people lived up to the principles of the American political system? Students will assign the nation a grade based on their perceptions of the degree to which the people of the United States have lived up to their nation's founding principles.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
University of Delaware Institute for Public Administration
Date Added:
04/26/2017
UD Virtual Compound Microscope
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In this virtual simulation students will learn how to use a compound microscoscope. The simulation shows students how to control lighting, view slides, switch objectives, and so much more. The simulation then allows students to go back and practice skills learned.

Subject:
Biology
Science
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
University of Delaware
Author:
Margie Barrett, Joelle Cona, Paul Hyde, Bob Ketcham, Becky Kinney, Justin Schakelman
Date Added:
02/26/2019