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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.
Using Survivor Testimony: Preparation
Socratic Seminar: Weimar Republic
Choices in Little Rock Student Guide
Choices in Little Rock Student Guide (Spanish)
Teaching Enrique's Journey
This guide provides activities and discussion questions for leading your students through a six-week reading of Enrique's Journey that explores themes of identity, belonging, and choices.
Taking School Online With a Student-Centered Approach
Wonder: A Whole-School Read Planning Guide
Get tips for planning your whole-school read of the young adult novel Wonder. This guide provides direction on how to structure classroom discussions and includes pre- and post-reading activities. It also features a "write your own precept" template for use in a final school-wide activity.
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy
Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Civil Rights Historical Investigation
This resource connects our Civil Rights Historical Investigations unit with writing prompts that align with the expectations of the Common Core State Standards.
Democracy in Action: A Study Guide to Accompany the Film Freedom Riders
Use this guide to the documentary film Freedom Riders to help students explore the stories of the brave activists who challenged segregation in the South in 1961.