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Grade Range:
5-12
Resource Type(s):
Lessons & Activities
Date Posted:
4/16/2018
#MyFellowCitizens asks students to think critically about what good citizenship means to them.
The learning begins with the guiding question: What does it mean to be a good citizen? Students investigate this question by looking at the Naturalization O
Grade Range:
K-12
Resource Type(s):
Artifacts
Date Posted:
4/16/2018
The glass ballot jar became a symbol of democratic self-government. This 1884 glass ballot jar is typical of the transparent devices used to secure paper ballots.
Grade Range:
K-12
Resource Type(s):
Artifacts
Date Posted:
4/16/2018
Though a key requirement of citizenship is learning English, many guides are still available in the native languages of new immigrants. The Foreign Language Information Service provided translations of these guides in thirteen European languages.
Grade Range:
K-12
Resource Type(s):
Artifacts
Date Posted:
4/16/2018
This rare silk banner was probably carried in a public parade in Philadelphia in the mid to late 1790s. Its elaborate design suggests the importance of such festivals, which provided a place for many Americans, voters and non-voters, to express patriotic sentiments or partisan views on current ev
Grade Range:
K-12
Resource Type(s):
Artifacts
Date Posted:
4/16/2018
This is one of the first models of Liberty cast in the United States. Often described as the American Committee Model, this statuette was produced in the tens of thousands. It was sold to subscribers to finance the construction of a pedestal for the full-size statue in New York Harbor.
Grade Range:
Resource Type(s):
Artifacts
Date Posted:
3/22/2018
This 1960s organizing pamphlet from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) asks, “Where is Democracy?” Behind this question was a demand for equal representation for all who have felt excluded or marginalized by the electoral process and political institutions.
Grade Range:
K-5
Resource Type(s):
Reviewed Websites, Lessons & Activities
Duration:
60 minutes
Date Posted:
10/21/2016
This historical investigation is aligned with the C3 Framework and is from C3teachers.org.
Through the compelling question “Do we have to have rules?” this annotated inquiry inv
Grade Range:
K-5
Resource Type(s):
Reviewed Websites, Lessons & Activities
Duration:
60 minutes
Date Posted:
10/19/2016
This historical investigation is aligned with the C3 Framework and is from C3teachers.org.
This inquiry is an exploration into the concept of responsibility, beginning within the home and then expandi
Grade Range:
9-12
Resource Type(s):
Reviewed Websites, Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities
Duration:
90 minutes
Date Posted:
10/19/2016
This historical investigation is aligned with the C3 Framework and is from C3teachers.org.
This twelfth grade annotated inquiry leads students through an investigation of a hotly debated issue in
Grade Range:
6-8
Resource Type(s):
Reviewed Websites, Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities
Duration:
90 minutes
Date Posted:
10/13/2016
This historical investigation is aligned with the C3 Framework and from C3teachers.org.
This inquiry examines the emergence of the women’s suffrage movement in the 19th century as an effort to expan
