CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.3
Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).
Roles of Government Lesson Plan: Branches of Power Game
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-12, students play an iCivics game called Branches of Power that allows them to experience the role of the three branches of government, and how they interac...
Race to Ratify Lesson Plan: Race to Ratify Game
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-12, students play a game called Race to Ratify that brings them back in time to 1787 and into the heated national debate between the Federalists and Anti-Fe...
Mission US Lesson Plan: For Crown or Colony?
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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-12, centers around Mission US: For Crown or Colony?, a game in which students take on the role of an apprentice to a newspaper printer in Boston in 1770--a tim...
Mission US: Up from the Dust Lesson Plan
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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-12, centers around the simulation Mission US: Up from the Dust, which provides young people with an experiential understanding of the enormous hardships facin...
Civil Rights Lesson Plan: Research a Civil Rights Event or Leader
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Wright Brothers Lesson Plan: Write and Deliver a Speech Honoring the Wright Brothers
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 3-8, students explore BrainPOP resources to learn about the Wright brothers and their invention of the first flying machine. Using what they learn, students w...
Paths to Citizenship Lesson Plan: Immigration Nation Game
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This lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-8, features a game called Immigration Nation. This game challenges students to use information they’re provided to determine whether newcomers to America are e...
Parliamentary System Lesson Plan: Determining a Government for a New Country
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 6-12, students explore BrainPOP resources to discover what a parliamentary system of government is and how it compares and contrasts with the system of govern...
From Primary to General Election Lesson Plan: Win the White House
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-12, students first watch the movie Presidential Election and then play Win the White House. The game invites students to take on the role of a presidential ...
Be an Informed Voter: Cast Your Vote Game
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In this lesson plan, adaptable for grades 5-8, students play Cast Your Vote, a game in which they experience the different ways to evaluate candidates running for office, such as political debates, re...
