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Teach core democratic values with primary source documents, read alouds, social studies-history activities & art lessons.
Ten Core Democratic Values Lesson Plans
Common Good
Diversity
Life
Patriotism
Popular
Sovereignty
Pursuit of Happiness
Truth

Democracy Lessons for Common Good, a Core Democratic Value

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LESSON PLANS FOR COMMON GOOD:
Warm-up - History Mystery
Read Aloud - Picture Book from your library or bookstore
Explore Democratic Values: Think-Pair-Share
and Document Analysis
Think Piece essay - Discussion of Common Good
Pencil Power - What could you do for the common good?
Art Connection activities - Make Clay Pots
HISTORY MYSTERY SAMPLE: Cut photocopies of a Mata Ortiz clay pot into 2” or 3” pieces so that you have enough for each student. Hand each student a “pottery shard” as they enter the classroom, but don’t tell them what it is....Anthropologists study...
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The Pot That Juan Built,

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Common Good, a Core Democratic Values lesson plan. View thumbnails for pages 1 to 20 below:
Common Good
Lesson Plan pages
1 Cover
2 Table
of Contents
3 A few words
from Kari
4 The components of the lesson plans
5 Day 1
and Day 2
6 Teacher's answer sheet for page 14
7 Ten Core Democratic Values
8 Photo of Mata Ortiz clay pot
9 Primary source Document A
10 Primary source Document B
11 Primary source Document C
12 Primary source Document D
13 Cover: Student Activities pages
14 Common Good Document Analysis
15 Analysis Conclusions
16 Common Good
Think Piece
17Common Good
Pencil Power

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The Pot That Juan Built
by Nancy Andrews-Goebel and
David Diaz
18 Pencil Power Assessment Guide
19 Make Clay Pots
Art Connection
20 Picture Books for Big Kids - ISBNs
The Core Democratic lesson plans are electronic booklets in PDF format so you can download the files to your hard drive.
You can print copies of the teacher's information pages and duplicate the Student Activities pages, documents, and worksheets for all of your students. Use the Core Democratic Values Lesson Plans over and over again each semester.
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American core democratic values lesson plans for interdisciplinary activities
in social studies and history classrooms. Teach core democratic values with read alouds,
primary source documents, and integrated art lessons - Grades 5 to 8