Appreciating Democracy: Lesson Plan for High School Teachers, Contents

Teaching Democracy Appreciation

A Lesson Plan for High School Teachers of Civics, Government, and U.S. History

Prepared by Alan Rosenthal and Greer Burroughs as a project of the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers University. The authors can be reached at alanr@rci.rutgers.edu or (732) 828-2210, ext. 251. The current version was completed in September 2003.

Complete Lesson Plan (30 pages): Download file to Word or print in PDF format.

The files below are in HTML format to be reviewed online. Each activity is an individual file. To download the files in Word or print in PDF format, go to Print or Download Files

Summary
Overview: Background, objectives and methods for teachers (Item A)
Activity 1: Differences and Settlements in Ordinary Life
Activity 2: Differences and Settlement in Framing the U.S. Constitution
Activity 3: Differences and Settlement in the Legislative Budget Process
Wrap-up: Plan for concluding discussion led by teacher

Activity 1

Differences and Settlements in Ordinary Life Lesson plan for teachers (Item B1)

Activity 1: "Where to Eat?" Description and instructions for the activity, to be used by teachers and handed out to the students (Item B2)

Observer Worksheet for Activity 1 For monitoring of students by teachers (Item B3)

Restaurant Ballot Ballot to be handed out to students (Item B4)

Activity 2

Differences and Settlement in Framing the U.S. Constitution
Lesson plan for teachers (Item C1)

Activity 2: Big vs. Little Description and instructions for the activity, to be used by teachers and handed out to the students (Item C2)

Observer Worksheet for Activity 2 For monitoring of students by teachers (Item C3)

Activity 3

Differences and Settlement in the Legislative Budget Process
Lesson plan for teacher (Item D1)

Activity 3: Dividing Up the Pot Description and instructions for the activity, to be used by teachers and handed out to the students (Item D2)

Wrap-Up Session

The Fundamentals of American Democracy
Plan for concluding discussion led by teacher (Item E)

Posted 10/30/03

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