The Medal of Honor Foundation 

https://themedalofhonor.com/

Check out The Medal of Honor Foundation for great teaching resources and primary source videos. The Foundation also provides teacher workshops and institutes. 

Looking for Veteran's Day resources? Check out the History Channel: I Bet You Didn’t Know: Veteran’s Day 2:12 min-It is a quick video to show in class. 

Hi guys, I am! looking for a lesson or resource that will help me teach the progression of political parties in the early period to 1877 for my 8th graders. Do you have a lesson, chart, or resource that I could use or get an idea from?  Thanks for sharing!

Check out this lesson. Have students color code the Declaration of Independence, using the philosophy of Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau. 

Constitutional principles can be difficult for our students. This lesson might help. Circle up your students and grab a ball of yarn.

Feel free to share lesson or strategies  you have on how to teach the principles of government. 

This is a new preamble lesson I created last summer with some fellow teachers in Texas. We love to share!  Check it out and feel free to leave any comments of lessons or strategies on how you teach the goals of the Constitution using the Preamble. 

Looking for ideas on Media Bias projects, whether public policy or Constitution, or election/electoral/politicking ...

Any ideas all?  I think  a media bias project would be a great scaffolding  activity, culminating in the public policy/media portions of class curricula...so, TOPICAL right now, and seemingly may stand the test of time with the changing era of our current democratic ideals and perceptions of democracy. 

Your thoughts???

thanks!

All elections are important, however, midterm election tend to be overlooked.   CCE had developed a brand new lesson on the topic of midterm election. Please feel free to download this lesson at the link below

http://www.civiced.org/images/stories/CitizensNotSpectators/lesson_plan_files/high/fall/2018MidtermElectionLesson_CitizensNotSpectators.pdf

Back by popular demand, I have attached the Federalism Yarn Activity lesson plan to this new discussion topic. Thanks to Texas Law-Related Education and Janie Worst for writing up the directions.  Hope others have fun with this creative way to teach Federalism and the powers of government.

Looking to help student experience what it would be like to argue a Supreme Court case?  Check out this Supreme Court Simulation lesson. It includes links to sample cases from www.oyez.org 

Sample cases shown in the lesson include:  Fredrick v. Morse and Safford Unified School District v. Redding 

Unit 4, Lesson 25

(Edited by Patience LeBlanc - original submission Sunday, March 5, 2017, 12:40 PM)

For the JMLP booster in Chicago this March, I outlined a unit plan for how to engage students in discussion about executive power.