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Protecting our Freedoms: The Bill of Rights Lesson PlanProtecting our Freedoms: The Bill of Rights Lesson Plan
Publisher
Judicial Branch of California
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Grade
3rd
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Resource Type
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For Teacher Use
Duration
45 mins
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Collaborative Learning
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Year
2012
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Protecting our Freedoms: The Bill of Rights

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Take to the stage! Integrate both drama and civic skills by asking pupils to create and perform skills that demonstrate the importance of the amendments in the Bill of Rights. After reviewing the Preamble to the Constitution, learners consider how the Founding Fathers protected cherished liberties with the Bill of Rights. Then, they create vignettes to illustrate these ideas for their classmates. 

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Concepts

the bill of rights, the constitution, constitutional amendments, constitutional rights, freedoms, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, religious freedom, freedom, classroom community, classroom rules, primary source analysis, primary sources

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Create skits to illustrate the importance of each amendment in the Bill of Rights
  • Develop a class Bill of Rights

Classroom Considerations

  • Lesson is second in a series

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  • Resource includes student instructions and materials
  • Rubric makes scoring and feedback simple

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  • None

Common Core

CCRA.R.1 CCRA.R.2

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