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Student Activities: The Supreme Court, Trust, and Political Partisanship

These student-facing slides help students learn about the recent decline in public trust in the Supreme Court and the history of partisan politics in the Court.

Last Updated: October 18, 2022

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English — US

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Civics & Citizenship
Social Studies

Democracy & Civic Engagement

Student Activities: The Supreme Court, Trust, and Political Partisanship

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Student Activities: The Supreme Court, Trust, and Political Partisanship

Date of Publication: October 2022

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Lesson

Use this lesson to help your students understand more about the origins of race as a socially constructed concept and racism as a force that shapes society.

Lesson

Use this lesson when your students are engaging with a text that contains racist and dehumanising language.

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Lesson

Use this lesson to help your students explore the impact of racism in the UK and what can be done to challenge it.

Uniformed school students complete assignments at their desks.

Assessment

Students participate in a people's assembly centered on the question, how might we challenge all types of racism in the UK so that everyone can thrive?

Unit

This unit is designed to help teachers in the UK have conversations about race with their students in a safe, sensitive, and constructive way.

Toolkit

This toolkit provides lessons and strategies for helping your students make sense of issues in the news related to democracy.

Lesson

Students establish a safe space for holding sensitive conversations, before introducing the events surrounding Ferguson, by acknowledging people's complicated feelings about race and creating a classroom contract.

Lesson

Students explore the role of social media in Ferguson, apply information verification strategies to social media posts, and develop strategies for becoming critical consumers and sharers of social media.

Peaceful demonstrators gather in Ferguson, Missouri, in the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death.

Lesson

Students evaluate the differences among news accounts about Ferguson, develop strategies for verifying news and information, and understand the challenges facing journalists as they cover complex, fast-moving events.

Unit

Help students become informed and effective civic participants in today's digital landscape. This unit is designed to develop students' critical thinking, news literacy, civic engagement, and social-emotional skills and competencies.

Peaceful protestor speaks to police officer in Ferguson.

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson provides students with an opportunity to deepen their understanding of democracy and a framework for making meaning of news stories about the tensions and conflicts in democracies today.

Mini-Lesson

This mini-lesson is a guide for teachers to begin conversations with their students about George Floyd’s death and the events that surround it.

Image of people marching in a protest for George Floyd.

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Student Activities: The Supreme Court, Trust, and Political Partisanship

At a Glance

Language

Subject

Open in Google Drive

Student Activities: The Supreme Court, Trust, and Political Partisanship

Download a PDF of this resource for free

You might also be interested in…

Introducing the Concept of Race

Addressing Racist and Dehumanising Language

Creating a Society in Which Everyone Can Thrive

People's Assembly

Discussing Race and Racism in the Classroom

Democracy and Current Events

Preparing Students for Difficult Conversations

Social Media and Ferguson

Verifying Breaking News

Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age

Assessing the Strength of Democracy

Reflecting on George Floyd’s Death and Police Violence Towards Black Americans

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