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Teach core democratic values with primary source documents, read alouds, social studies-history activities & art lessons.

 

Ten Democratic Values Lessons

Common Good
Diversity
Equality-
Free Pages
Justice
Liberty
Life
Patriotism
Popular
Sovereignty
Pursuit of Happiness
Truth

American Democracy Lessons for a Core Democratic Value: Justice

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LESSON PLANS FOR JUSTICE:
Warm-up - Dance and Drama
Read Aloud - Picture Book from your library or bookstore
Explore Democratic Values: Think-Pair-Share
and Document Analysis
Think Piece essay - Discussion of Justice
Pencil Power - Why is “Justice for All” an important idea?
Art Connection activities - Metal Tooling

PENCIL POWER SAMPLE: What happens when things aren’t fair?
Does fairness mean everyone always gets the same treatment? Choose one of the projects listed. Be sure to check the Assessment Guide to help you do your best.

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,
A Day’s Work,
at your library or bookstore.

Justice, a Core Democratic Values lesson plan. View thumbnails for pages 1 to 20 below:

Justice Core Democratic Value
Lesson Plan Book Cover
Table of Contents
American Democratic Values Lesson Plans
American Democratic Values Lesson Plans

Justice
Lesson Plan pages

1 Cover

2 Table
of Contents

3 A few words
from Kari

4 The components of the lesson plans

5 Day 1
and Day 2

Document Analysis
Ten Core Democratic Values
Primary Source Document
Primary Source Document
Primary Source Document
Primary Source Document

6 Teacher's answer sheet for page 14

7 Ten Core Democratic Values

8 Photo of Statue
of Liberty

9 Primary source Document A

10 Primary source Document B

11 Primary source Document C

Primary Source Document
Student Lessons Cover
Document Analysis
Document Analysis
Think Piece Essay
writing lesson

12 Primary source Document D

13 Cover: Student Activities pages

14 Justice Document Analysis

15 Analysis Conclusions

16 Justice
Think Piece

17 Justice
Pencil Power

Assessment Rubric
Art Connection Activity


Get the book
for "Read Aloud"

at your library,
your bookstore,
or check
Amazon.

A Day’s Work
by Eve Bunting and
Ronald Himler

18 Pencil Power Assessment Guide

19 Metal Tooling
Art Connection

20 Picture Books for Big Kids - ISBNs

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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American core democratic values lesson plans for interdisciplinary activities
in social studies and history classrooms. Teach core democratic values with read alouds,
primary source documents, and integrated art lessons - Grades 5 to 8