Teach core democratic values with primary source docs, read alouds, project based learning activities & art lessons.
Common Core State Standards are supported by the English Language Arts activities in these lessons.

Free - Core Democratic Values Lesson Plans for Equality
Click on the title of each sample page below to open it in Acrobat Reader. View the pages for Equality and, if you wish, save the single pages to your hard drive. The 19 page Equality e-booklet is also available in our store.

LESSON PLAN COMPONENTS FOR EQUALITY:
Warm-up - Musical Moments
Read Aloud - Picture Book from your library or bookstore
Explore Democratic Values: Think-Pair-Share
and Document Analysis
Think Piece essay - Discussion of Equality
Pencil Power - Do groups get equal treatment under the law?
Art Connection activities - Chinese Calligraphy

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,
Ruby’s Wish,
at your library or bookstore.

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.