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Teaching Tips
- http://kidsvotingusa.org/
- This site offers an extensive list of links related to voting, citizenship, the White House, etc.
- http://pbskids.org/democracy/govandme/
- This is an online game that has students click on buildings in a town to guide them in answering “How does government affect me?”
- http://teacher.scholastic.com site
- This site is democracy for kids and it provides links for rights and responsibilities. It provides a great classroom activity linking rights and responsibilities.
- http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm
- This site is Project Vote Smart. It lets students find current candidates from their state, statewide initiatives, referenda, or amendments that have been certified for the upcoming primary or general election ballots, and much more.
- http://www.freedomforum.org site
- This site offers lesson plans to teach the First Amendment. It includes case studies, problem-solving questions, and several additional links for more information.
- http://www.civiced.org/lesson-plans.html
- This site contains a lesson plan on the rights and responsibilities of citizens. Freedom of expression, freedom of religion, the right to be treated equally, the right to be treated fairly by your government, and the right to vote and run for public office are covered. Great problem-solving questions covered.
- http://www.usmint.gov/kids/teachers/lessonPlans/50sq/
- This site includes lesson plans, games, cartoons, time machines, and other ideas when studying the 50 State Quarters® Program.
- http://www.usflag.org/skeltonspledge.html
- This site is a commentary of the Pledge of Allegiance written by Red Skeleton. The meaning of the pledge is given word for word or phrase for phrase.
- http://www.usmint.gov/kids/index.cfm?fileContents=htmlIndex.cfm
- This site teaches about the importance of coins and currency created by the U. S. Mint. It contains teacher resources, games, lesson plans, etc., to aid in the teaching of early United States history.
- http://content.scholastic.com/browse/unitplan.jsp?id=63
- This site contains an in-depth unit on patriotism with several links and lesson plans.
- http://www.constitutionday.cc/
- This site has various Constitution Day activities.
