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Make your own history! Are you team Federalist or AntiFederalist?
Opinions can be cleverly disguised as news. Can you tell the difference? After completing this lesson, hopefully so! Learn to distinguish news from opinion, recognize standards of…
Learn about the electoral advantage that favors incumbents and the benefits and drawbacks of reelecting members of Congress. Then, put students' news literacy skills to work as…
Learn about the judicial philosophies of activism and restraint. In the second half of the lesson, students learn about opinion journalsim and explore criteria through which they…
Some interest groups use cloaked websites to disguise their true intentions. Students consider why information from interest groups matters politically.
Public sphere, public agenda, public opinion, public policy… What’s the difference? Students discover the relationships among these concepts and how they influence the issues we…
What does a Supreme Court justice really do? How do they make their decisions? What better way to find out than by trying it yourself! Got a 1:1 classroom? Download fillable PDF…
Videos have a way of grabbing your attention. In this lesson, students learn how videos also have the power to shape opinions, behaviors, and trends.
In this lesson, students evaluate hypothetical candidates by establishing and applying their own criteria for selecting public officials.
The role of interest groups in politics and government is a hot topic in the media today. This lesson uses the battle over school lunch ingredients to illustrate how interest…
How much influence does the media have on the public’s perception of current issues? In this mini-lesson, students explore where news and information come from and how the media…
Photos can be a powerful political resource. In this lesson, students learn how evaluating photos on social media can help them conserve their attention.
This mini-lesson covers the basics of the Supreme Court’s decision that burning the American flag is a form of political speech protected by the First Amendment. Students learn…
Look at the tensions and differences of opinion that existed among early American states and citizens.Learn about the Articles of Confederation, why the first “constitution” didn’t…
Students meet “Yabbut Rabbit” and learn how to flesh out the support for their arguments by developing counterargument. Using the technique they learn in this lesson, students add…
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