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

American Democracy Lessons for a Core Democratic Value: Life

LESSON PLANS FOR LIFE
Warm-up - Image/Imagination
Read Aloud - Picture Book from your library or bookstore
Explore Democratic Values: Think-Pair-Share
and Document Analysis
Think Piece essay - Discussion of Life
Pencil Power - Research a war or conflict from the past.
Art Connection activities - Create a Carpet Fragment

ART CONNECTION SAMPLE - Create a Carpet Fragment: To begin, examine pictures of Persian rugs. Select one motif, a small repeating element, from a carpet. Or design one of your own based on the images you have looked at.

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,
Sami and the Time of the Troubles,
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.