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Teach core democratic values with primary source documents, read alouds, social studies-history activities & art lessons.

American Democracy Lessons for Life, a Core Democratic Value
Core Democratic Values
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LESSON PLANS FOR LIFE
Warm-up - Image/Imagination
Read Aloud - Picture Book from your library or bookstore
Explore Democratic Values: Think-Pair-Share
and Document Analysis
Think Piece essay - Discussion of Life
Pencil Power - Research a war or conflict from the past.
Art Connection activities - Create a Carpet Fragment
ART CONNECTION SAMPLE - Create a Carpet Fragment: To begin, examine pictures of Persian rugs. Select one motif, a small repeating element, from a carpet. Or design one of your own based on the images you have looked at.
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Print copies for your assistants and the students in your classroom.
Use the Core Democratic Values lesson plans year after year.
Get the picture book,
Sami and the Time of the Troubles,
at your library or bookstore.
Life, a Core Democratic Values lesson plan. View thumbnails for pages 1 to 19 below:

Life
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 Picture Books for Big Kids - ISBNs
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 Life Document Analysis
15 Analysis Conclusions
16 Life
Think Piece
17 Life
Pencil Power

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Sami and the Time of the Troubles
by Florence Parry Heide and
Judith Heide Gallila
18 Pencil Power Assessment Guide
19 Art Connection
Carpet Fragment
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