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Democracy Lessons for a Core Democratic Value:
Common Good |
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LESSON PLANS
FOR COMMON GOOD:
Warm-up - History Mystery
Read Aloud - Picture Book from your library
or bookstore
Explore Democratic Values: Think-Pair-Share
and Document Analysis
Think Piece essay - Discussion of Common Good
Pencil Power - What could you do for the common good?
Art Connection activities - Make Clay Pots |
HISTORY MYSTERY SAMPLE: Cut
photocopies of a Mata Ortiz clay pot into 2” or 3” pieces
so that you have enough for each student. Hand each student a “pottery
shard” as they enter the classroom, but don’t tell them
what it is....Anthropologists study...
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Purchase and download the electonic-booklet in PDF
file format. Print copies for your assistants and the students in your
classroom. Use the Core Democratic Values lesson plans year after year. |
Get the picture book,
The Pot That Juan Built,
at your library or bookstore.
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Common Good, a Core Democratic Values lesson plan.
View thumbnails for pages 1 to 20 below:
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Common Good
Lesson Plan pages
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4 The components of the lesson plans
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6 Teacher's answer sheet for page 14
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7 Ten Core Democratic Values
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8 Photo of Mata Ortiz clay pot
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9 Primary source Document A
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10 Primary source Document B
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11 Primary source Document C
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12 Primary source Document D
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13 Cover: Student Activities pages
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14 Common Good Document Analysis
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16 Common Good
Think Piece
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17Common Good
Pencil Power
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Get the book
for "Read Aloud"
at your library,
your bookstore,
or check
Amazon.
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The Pot That Juan Built
by Nancy Andrews-Goebel and
David Diaz
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18 Pencil Power Assessment Guide
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19 Make Clay Pots
Art Connection
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20 Picture Books for Big Kids - ISBNs
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The Core Democratic lesson plans are electronic
booklets in PDF format so you can download the files to your hard
drive.
You can print copies of the teacher's information pages and duplicate
the Student Activities pages, documents, and worksheets for all of
your students. Use the Core Democratic Values Lesson Plans over and
over again each semester. |
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Free Reader opens the PDF files for the e-booklet |
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