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Checks and Balances in Supreme Court Nominations

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students discover the system of Checks and Balances related to recent events prompting action by one or more of the three branches of government. They study the process for selecting and confirming a Supreme Court justice. They examine...
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"Jazz is About Collaboration": Jim Crow Laws And Segregation

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore development of jazz music in the 1930s by forming imaginary jazz bands which tour several cities in Depression-era America. Jazz band members create imaginary identities for themselves, develop publicity for their tour,...
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How the Court Became Supreme

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate how the Supreme Court changed under the leadership of John Marshall. In this Supreme Court lesson, students recognize the role of the Supreme Court as well as the significance of Marbury v. Madison. Students also...
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Latinos and the Fourteenth Amendment: A Primary Document Activity

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students explore Latinos and the Fourteenth Amendment. In this government and law lesson, students analyze the ruling in Hernandez v. Texas. Students predict how the United States would be different if the court had made an alternated...
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High Crimes and Misdemeanors

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students gather information about the meaning and process of impeachment through reading and discussion.  Next, students role play hypothetical cases.
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Due Process

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students understand the legal term "due process of law" and its historical origins. They discuss the requirements for "due process of law" in both the U. S. Constitution and the Indiana Constitution and how those rights are similar or...
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The Jeffersonian Age: 1800 - 1824 (5)

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive American history worksheet, students answer 15 fill in the blank questions regarding the Jeffersonian Age. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Starr Struck

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students evaluate views on the presidential impeachment inquiry.
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Entrepreneurs and the African-American Dream

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students make a simple graph of labor supply and labor demand in the North and South in the early twentieth century. They conduct research to identify top contemporary African-American entrepreneurs.
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What Does It Cost?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students study the challenges diverse people encountered in the late 19th century American society, how racial and ethnic events influenced America during the Progressive Era, and the conditions affecting employment and labor in the late...
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Back To Africa

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students analyze the massive immigration after 1850 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity, and how the Progressive movement influenced different groups in American...
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Super Spreadsheets

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers develop a spreadsheet containing statistical data. They describe and interpret the data to make conclusions. They review the differences between an unorganized spreadsheet verses an organized one.
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The Death Penalty

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders perform a study of the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and focus on the protection against cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment as it relates to the death penalty. Prior to formulating a...
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Conflict Between Democratic and Authoritarian Rule in Haiti

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the background of democratic and authoritative rule in Haiti. In pairs they conduct a simulated interview, reporting for a news station about the political, personal, and economical life in Haiti. They conduct...
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What Makes a Good Judge?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students define qualities that should be considered when selecting judge, evaluate costs and benefits of two methods of selecting and retaining judges, decide whether methods provide for judicial independence and judicial accountability,...
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Latinos and the Fourteenth Amendment: A Primary Source Document Activity

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the effect of the Fourteenth Amendment.  In this US History lesson, 8th graders read and analyze primary source documents.  Students write a three minute paper demonstrating their understanding of the fourteenth...
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Diplomacy, Humor Take New NHTSA Chief Far

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore traffic safety. In this National Highway Traffic Safety Administration lesson, students read the USA Today article titled "Diplomacy, Humor Take New NHTSA Chief Far," respond to discussion questions regarding the...
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Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the impeachment proceedings of Andrew Johnson. In this U.S. Constitution lesson, students listen to their instructor present a lecture on the details of Andrew Johnson's impeachment and Reconstruction. Students respond...
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Charolotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" - the "New Woman"

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students analyze the life of American middle to upper-class women in the mid- to late-nineteenth century and early twentieth century. In this women's suffrage lesson, students visit the given links in the lesson to analyze the changing...
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The Defeat of the ERA

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders take a closer look at the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). In this women's rights lesson, 11th graders read the Equal Rights Amendment as well as the "Feminine Mystique" and selections by Gloria Steinam and Phyllis...
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Watergate Articles of Impeachment

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders investigate the charges brought against President Nixon. In this 20th century America activity, 11th graders read excerpts from Articles of Impeachment and respond to the provided discussion questions about the Watergate...
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Survival or Democracy?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students take a closer look at Pakistan today. In this current events lesson, students visit selected websites to discover a history of the country, the cultural values of its citizens, and structure of the of the government there.
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Executive Decisions

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Young scholars explore the role of judges in Britain. For this current events lesson, students visit selected websites to discover the responsibilities of judges and the justice reform in Britain.
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Advice And Consent - the Senate Considers the President's Supreme Court Nominations

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study the process and questioning for selecting a Supreme Court Justice. They examine how the decisions of the Supreme Court effect the lives of citizens. They complete worksheets as they study the material.

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