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Coming Soon: Civic Education Curriculum Collection
Get notified when our Civic Education Curriculum Collection is released. This modular and interdisciplinary set of units, inquiries, and lesson planning materials will help you prepare your students for informed and ethical participation in democracy.
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Diapositives
The Costs and Benefits of Belonging
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Use these slides to help students learn about group membership and explore the range of responses available to us when we encounter exclusion, discrimination, and injustice.
Defining Human Rights
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Use these slides to help students consider what rights should belong to every human being on earth, as well as the challenges of creating an international framework of rights.
Defining Our Obligations to Others
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Use these slides with students to introduce them to the concept of universe of obligation to better understand how societies create "in" groups and "out" groups.
Understanding Mr Birling
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Use these slides to help students critically assess Priestley’s presentation of Mr Birling.
Understanding Mrs Birling
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Use these slides to help students consider what factors impacted Mrs Birling’s treatment of Eva Smith and create a universe of obligation for her character.
Understanding Sheila
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Use these slides to help students use the character of Sheila to further their understanding of the interplay between one’s identity and one’s choices, and write an analytical paragraph concerning Priestley's presentation of her character.
What Lessons Can We Learn?
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Use these slides to help students discuss the essential question in a people's assembly, and consider what lessons we can learn from the play.
Transcending Single Stories
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Use these slides to help students reflect on how stereotypes and "single stories" influence our identities, how we view others, and the choices we make.
Understanding Identity
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Use these slides to help students consider the question "Who am I?" and identify social and cultural factors that shape identity.
Universe of Obligation (UK)
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Use these slides to help students learn a new concept, universe of obligation, and use it to analyse the ways that their society designates who is deserving of respect and protection.
The Weimar Republic (UK)
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Use these slides to help students reflect on the idea of democracy as they analyse the politics, economics, and culture of Germany during the period of the Weimar Republic.
