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.

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.

After classroom discussions and activities to exemplify positive relationships through fair play and friendship, the higher level students in the class will each make their own ABC books to illustrate many ways to play fairly and how to treat friends. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

In this lesson, students identify the steps for success in saving, give examples of how saving for the future means giving up things today, and set a savings goal and develop a plan to reach it.

In this lesson, students will learn about and discuss the activist organziation ACT UP, a group whose creative techniques fored the government to act to combat HIV/AIDS. This lesson is broken into 2 readings, both with accompanying discussion questions.

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Students will build background and show understanding about government elections at the local, state, and national levels in the United States.

Students will write, revise, and edit an informational piece to demonstrate mastery of the topic of elections incorporating key academic content vocabulary.

Students will create a PPT with a teacher's model to demonstrate understanding and mastery of key content area vocabulary words.

Students will complete activities during independent work time or literacy stations. Provides a QR code for students to listen to stories (2 non-fiction and 1 fiction) about elections. After they listen to the stories they choose one of the non-fiction texts to write facts about, find the main idea and key details, and define new words

This lesson allows students to apply their knowledge of the brain in understanding how neurochemical imbalances are thought to affect behavior and how different medications are used to treat the symptoms of ADHD. At the conclusion of this lesson, students will be able to discuss differences in brain anatomy and resulting behavior among youth with ADHD, and the different treatment options available for individuals with ADHD.

In this lesson, students read about the worldwide AIDS epidemic and the prevalence of AIDS in Africa. A set of discussion questions is provided. In an associated activity, students will consider various options of how the U.S. could react to the AIDS crisis in Africa. Student groups will discuss the options and then role play a State Department meeting on the question of what to do.

This online textbook is designed for grade 8 and up and covers all of North Carolina history, from the arrival of the first people some 12,000 years ago to the present. There are eleven parts, organized chronologically, a collection of primary sources, readings, and multimedia that can be rearranged to meet the needs of the classroom. Special web-based tools aid reading and model historical inquiry, helping students build critical thinking and literacy skills.

In this lesson, students understand the conditions under which a competitive market fails to produce the socially-optimal quantity of a good or service. They also need to know what steps a government can take to correct a negative externality. This lesson supports the Market Failure and the Role of Government section of the Advanced Placement Microeconomics curriculum.

This lesson will be used on the second day of class to introduce the purpose for government.  There is also a survey for the students to take about the top 10 achievements of the U.S. government in the last 75 years.  There is also a powerpoint going over the first half of the key concepts in AP Government as well as a google forms quiz to give in the last 5 minutes of class.

In this curriculum unit, students will explore the question: What was life, particularly the writing life, like for an American woman before, during, and after the founding of our nation? Using Abigail Adams's correspondence and diaries, students will explore primary source documents to learn about the historical, cultural, and ethical role of women in early America. Students will analyze the works of Mrs. Adams and other women, create a diary as if they lived during the time period, write essays comparing their lives to that of an 18th century New Englander, and produce a historical film containing scenes from the life of Mrs. Adams. The unit includes transcribed primary sources, numerous worksheets, and detailed homework assignments.

In this four lesson unit, students use primary source materials to gain insight and perspective about what it was like to live in the past.

This site looks at those who fought for the ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the emancipation of enslaved Africans in the British colonies. The site has been designed to provide background information, lesson ideas and tools for teachers and learners.

Students are exposed to some of the key causes behind the start of the United States Civil War. Sudents will be able to analyze the impact of contributions made by diverse historical figures over time as well as the impact of major conflicts, battles, and wars on the development of our nation through Reconstruction. The values and principles of American democracy as well as the roles of woman and minorities are also identified.

In this lesson, students will: 1. Review and understand multiple perspectives of slavery (the slaves' point of view, the abolitionist point of view and the view of the slave holder). 2. Learn three abolitionist leaders and their contribution to the movement against slavery. 3. Read and interpret primary documents having to do with the abolitionist movement. 4. Demonstrate understanding of primary documents through written assessment.

This resource examines Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade using records from the National Archives.

Resources provides information about Rivtak, a business created by an North Carolina native.