How would you design the government of a new country? Groups of students, working as a United Nations Task Force, advise the leaders of a new nation on how to create a constitutional democracy.
As first-year associates at a law firm, students debate whether to take a case headed for the Supreme Court.
Acting as media consultants for a local political campaign, students must decide how best to “market” a flawed candidate, given local issues and voter characteristics.
How would you cut the federal budget? Your students, working in focus groups, craft recommendations for their congressional representative.
The five projects—Colonial Convention, Multiple Perspectives on the American Revolution, Cost-Benefit Analysis of War, The Conservation Movement and Me, and Making Music: Politics, Culture, and Entertainment—each include implementation guidelines, an attention-grabbing "Entry Event" designed to inspire a creative thought process and introduce a problem or challenge, reproducible handouts, rubrics, and alignments to the key concepts […]
Addressing the often neglected topic of local government, this unit assigns students to the City Manager’s staff to decide on the best location for transitional housing for the homeless.
The biggest activity is a moot court in which some students re-argue Obergefell v.
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