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

American Democracy Lessons for a Core Democratic Value: Truth

LESSON PLANS FOR TRUTH
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 Truth
Pencil Power - Can secret organizations be harmful?
Art Cornnection activities - Mask Making

WARM-UP SAMPLE: Gather different masks such as a playful Halloween mask, a dust mask and a ski mask and place them in a box. To begin class pull each mask from the box. Say, Imagine who might wear this mask and why.

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,
Mississippi Morning
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.