Instructional Video6:07
Crash Course

Freedom of Religion: Crash Course Government and Politics

12th - Higher Ed
Today, Craig is going to take a look at the First Amendment and your right to freedom of religion. We’ll examine some significant Supreme Court decisions and talk about how they’ve affected our interpretations of the law with respect to...
Instructional Video26:00
Wonderscape

History Kids: Constitutional Amendments 1-5

K - 5th
The video discusses some of the key amendments in the United States Constitution, specifically focusing on the First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments. It explains the importance of these amendments in protecting individual...
Instructional Video3:45
Mr. Beat

Westside Community Board of Education v. Mergens

6th - 12th
Omaha, Nebraska 1985 A group of students at Westside High School wants to form a Christian Bible Study Club that would meet after school, but on school grounds. One of the students, Bridget Mergens, asks the principal, James Finley, if...
Instructional Video5:27
Mr. Beat

Bong Hits 4 Jesus? | Morse v. Frederick

6th - 12th
In the fourth episode of Supreme Court Briefs, Mr. Beat goes back to 2002 to look at darn high schoolers causing mischief with a banner about marijuana. Is it their First Amendment right or are they disrupting...
Instructional Video4:26
Mr. Beat

Engel v. Vitale

6th - 12th
In the third episode of Supreme Court Briefs, Mr. Beat examines the first of many Supreme Court cases dealing with the separation of church and state- Engel v. Vitale. The state board of education said that students were to open each day...
Instructional Video6:05
Mr. Beat

Morse v. Frederick

6th - 12th
In the fourth episode of Supreme Court Briefs, Mr. Beat goes back to 2002 to look at darn high schoolers causing mischief with a banner about marijuana. Is it their First Amendment right or are they disrupting school? Joseph Frederick, a...
Instructional Video4:05
Mr. Beat

Is Prayer Allowed at Public School? | Engel v. Vitale

6th - 12th
In the third episode of Supreme Court Briefs, Mr. Beat examines the first of many Supreme Court cases dealing with the separation of church and state- Engel v. Vitale.
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Instructional Video2:24
Curated Video

Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier: Free Speech in School

9th - Higher Ed
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the right to free speech. But when student journalists in Missouri wrote a series of articles on teen sex and divorce in 1983, their school appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court for the...
Instructional Video8:11
Mr. Beat

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette

6th - 12th
Germany The 1930s The Nazis arrest thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses across the country who refuse to salute the Nazi flag. Why didn't they salute the Nazi flag? Well, for starters, it's against their religion to salute a flag, as they...
Instructional Video6:53
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Martha Hickson - The Right to Read

Higher Ed
Martha Hickson has been a high school librarian since 2005. Her work has been featured in School Library Journal, Booklist, KnowledgeQuest, the American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Blog, NJEA Review, and School Librarian’s...
Instructional Video7:42
Mr. Beat

Do You Have to Say the Pledge of Allegiance? | West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette

6th - 12th
In episode 19 of Supreme Court Briefs, a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses don't salute the American flag nor say the Pledge of Allegiance, and almost everybody else freaks out about it.
Instructional Video3:24
Brainwaves Video Anthology

Martha Hickson - Teachers Make a Difference - Sister Cyrnea & Laurie Hutton Corr

Higher Ed
Martha Hickson has been a high school librarian since 2005. Her work has been featured in School Library Journal, Booklist, KnowledgeQuest, the American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Blog, NJEA Review, and School Librarian’s...
Instructional Video23:10
Hip Hughes History

Constitutional Flexibility For Dummies -- The Living Constitution

6th - 12th
First of all you are not a dummy. Mr. Hughes serves up a healthy serving of the US Constitution in this lecture looking at the theme of change. Easy to digest and guaranteed not to make you throw up in your mouth. This lecture is...
Instructional Video33:52
Hip Hughes History

Supreme Court Cases For Dummies: US History Review

6th - 12th
First, you are not a dummy. Watch Mr. Hughes serve up a heaping helpful of Judicial Review designed to help you pass your tests and walking around a little smarter than when you started
Instructional Video5:17
Mr. Beat

How a Prank Call Led to Kids Having Rights | In re Gault

6th - 12th
In episode 74 of Supreme Court Briefs, two teenage boys get arrested for being obscene to a woman in an apparent prank telephone call.

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In re Gault was a huge case...
Instructional Video14:53
Curated Video

Citizens Rule: Our Founding Documents

K - 8th
This program introduces students to the two documents that laid the foundation for our government. Live-action reenactments, colorful animated graphics and maps help tell the stories of how the Declaration of Independence and the...
Instructional Video2:32
Curated Video

Thurgood Marshall: From School Suspension to Supreme Court

9th - Higher Ed
Thurgood Marshall, the most successful civil rights lawyer of all time and America’s first Supreme court Justice, was instrumental in the fight for equality in the United States.
Instructional Video6:52
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Crash Course

Freedom of Speech: Crash Course Government and Politics #25

9th - 12th Standards
Freedom of speech isn't always free—or legal! The 25th lesson of a 50-part series covering the US government and politics has scholars investigate the First Amendment's rights of verbal expression. A short video creates open discussion...
Instructional Video3:25
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National Constitution Center

Classroom Discussion Starter: Freedom of Expression

7th - 12th Standards
The Ku Klux Klan wants to hold a rally on the Antietem battlefield. Should the federal park permit the rally? Or does the First Amendment have limitations? Scholars ponder these questions and more using a discussion starter video and...
Instructional Video3:51
Bill of Rights Institute

Citizens United vs. FEC

9th - 12th Standards
Viewers investigate the case of Citizens United vs. FEC and how some donations changed the game of advertising during a campaign. They examine just how much money some spend in politics to support a candidate during the election...
Instructional Video14:23
Khan Academy

US History Overview 2 - Reconstruction to the Great Depression

8th - 11th
Ambitiously spanning American history from 1865 to 1941, this video discusses and clarifies topics such as women's suffrage, the sinking of the Maine, and the development of America as a world empire. Maps and photographs will engage...
Instructional Video2:42
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National Constitution Center

Classroom Discussion Starter: Freedom from Excessive Punishment

7th - 12th Standards
You are the governor of your state. A man has been sentenced to die for first degree murder, but you've been asked to commute the sentence. What do you do? Scholars consider the difficult question using a conversation starter video that...
Instructional Video
HipHughes History

You Tube: The Bill of Rights Hand Game: Us History Review

9th - 10th Standards
The Bill of Rights explained for students studying US History and Govenrment.