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

Democracy Lessons for a Core Democratic Value: Popular Sovereignty

LESSON PLANS for POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY:
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 Popular Sovereignty
Pencil Power - Is voting a right and a responsibility?
Art Connection activities - Political Cartoon - Printmaking

Read Aloud Sample: Ask, Do you think American voters today are influenced by what they see and read? Why or why not? What are some of the ways voters get information about who to vote for?

Purchase and download the electonic-booklet in PDF file format. 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,
Duck for President,
at your library or bookstore.

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.