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

American Democracy Lessons for a Core Democratic Value: Justice

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.

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.