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This page contains links to NCSL videos and lesson plans on American Democracy for grades 4 through 8.
30-Second Videos and Lesson Topics
Voice
Goal: To help students have a better understanding that through representative democracy citizens have a “voice” in government.
Voice Page
Vote
Goal: To strengthen students' understanding of the connection between voting and having a voice in a representative democracy.
Vote Page
Special Interest Groups
Goal: To develop recognition that all people are part of interest groups and to create an understanding of the need for interest groups in supporting the interests of all segments of the population.
Special Interest Group Page
Compromise
Goal: To increase students' understanding and appreciation of representative democracy in America and strengthen their understanding of the need for compromise in day to day situations.
Compromise Page
Ice Cream
Goal: To strengthen understanding that diversity of ideas leads to increased choices and increase their understanding and appreciation of representative democracy in America.
Ice Cream Page
Developed by Carol Western Paola, Mississippi Project Citizen Co-Coordinator, for Representative Democracy in America: Voices of the People, a national project sponsored by the Alliance for Representative Democracy, a partnership of the Center for Civic Education, the Center on Congress at Indiana University and the National Conference of State Legislatures' Trust for Representative Democracy.
For more information, please visit our America's Legislators Back to School Program and Trust for Representative Democracy sites.