A civics curriculum is like any other subject taught in school:
It requires skilled instruction, careful practice, and opportunities to experiment. Constitutional Democracy Project’s lessons and curricula provide authentic civic learning and enable schools to serve as “laboratories” for democratic participation.
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This lesson provides students with background information and arguments for and against allowing the government to prohibit unauthorized public demonstrations. -
This lesson provides students with background information and arguments for and against allowing the government to prohibit unauthorized public demonstrations. -
This lesson gives students the opportunity to deliberate the question: Should our democracy require schools to provide sex education programs that include contraceptive education? -
This lesson gives students the opportunity to deliberate the question: Should our democracy require schools to provide sex education programs that include contraceptive education? -
In this lesson, students will consider whether Illinois should pass a law banning all red-light cameras in the state. -
In this lesson, students will consider whether Illinois should enact a Responsible Bystander Act, which would create a legal duty for persons who witness serious crimes to report them. -
In this lesson, students grapple with a school-based dilemma in which freedom of religion conflicts with safety; the lesson is based on an actual case in California and is similar to a case that went all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court. -
The policy at issue in this lesson recognizes the importance of technology in students’ lives by allowing all public high schools to use web-based social media as teaching and communication tools. -
In this unit, you will have the opportunity to explore a proposed federal law extending the right to vote to persons 16 years of age and older.
