Constitution Day
Celebrate Constitution Day
Student Supplements
Celebrate Constitution Day: Bill of Rights Institute 16-page supplement
Citizens Together?(NAA Foundation): This guide is designed for five days of instruction using the newspaper to help students explore individual freedoms protected by the Bill of Rights.
We The People - Unit 1 Tabloid Supplement / Unit 2 Tabloid Supplement: These two units of the Center for Civic Education’s (CCE) popular We The People curriculum can help schools meet the new Federal requirement that every school study the Constitution on Constitution Day each year. Also try the Constitution Scavenger Hunt.
It’s Your Government?(KRP): The section will help students understand and get involved in the political process, from voting to how a bill becomes law.
It’s Your Right: A history of the Bill of Rights?(KRP): Students will learn about the history of the Bill of Rights and how role those rights play in our life today.
Social Studies and the News?(Craig Lancto): 160 activities exploring the use of newspapers as primary sources including charts, graphs, and visuals to gain information; distinguishing between fact and fiction; recognizing bias and stereotyping; the foundations of Constitutional government; participation of individuals in civic life; the functions of political parties; evaluating the impact of media on public opinion; state and federal government; separation of powers; and economic concepts.
Websites of interest:
http://www.constitutionday.com/
http://billofrightsinstitute.org/
Online Event & Contest
Back to 1862: Civil War Historians: Recreate American Views on Eve of Emancipation — Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities
With the nation at war, Abraham Lincoln spent much of 1862 preparing for the most important decision of his presidency: emancipation. The drama surrounding Lincoln’s decision will be the focus when several of the nation’s leading Civil War historians gather in Washington for a program that will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the event will take place before a live student audience at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and will also be live-streamed for online viewers, on Sept. 17 – Constitution Day – from 1-2:30 p.m. EST.
Students aged 18 and above are also invited to participate in a special contest developed for this event. To learn more viewing the live-streamed broadcast, view related teaching resources, and find full contest details, visit http://emancipation.neh.gov.
Visualizing Emancipation, an interactive map of slavery’s end produced by the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, also will be featured. In a special contest developed for this event, students aged 18 and above from across the country are encouraged to explore Visualizing Emancipation (available at http://dsl.richmond.edu) and submit a creative response to the primary sources found there, as an interpretive essay, poem or video about the end of slavery at http://emancipation.neh.gov. Entries are due October 5, and three student winners will travel to Washington, DC with a guest to attend the Constitution Day events and present their winning submissions as guests of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Student Supplements
Celebrate Constitution Day: Bill of Rights Institute 16-page supplement
Citizens Together?(NAA Foundation): This guide is designed for five days of instruction using the newspaper to help students explore individual freedoms protected by the Bill of Rights.
We The People - Unit 1 Tabloid Supplement / Unit 2 Tabloid Supplement: These two units of the Center for Civic Education’s (CCE) popular We The People curriculum can help schools meet the new Federal requirement that every school study the Constitution on Constitution Day each year. Also try the Constitution Scavenger Hunt.
It’s Your Government?(KRP): The section will help students understand and get involved in the political process, from voting to how a bill becomes law.
It’s Your Right: A history of the Bill of Rights?(KRP): Students will learn about the history of the Bill of Rights and how role those rights play in our life today.
Social Studies and the News?(Craig Lancto): 160 activities exploring the use of newspapers as primary sources including charts, graphs, and visuals to gain information; distinguishing between fact and fiction; recognizing bias and stereotyping; the foundations of Constitutional government; participation of individuals in civic life; the functions of political parties; evaluating the impact of media on public opinion; state and federal government; separation of powers; and economic concepts.
Websites of interest:
http://www.constitutionday.com/
http://billofrightsinstitute.org/
Online Event & Contest
Back to 1862: Civil War Historians: Recreate American Views on Eve of Emancipation — Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities
With the nation at war, Abraham Lincoln spent much of 1862 preparing for the most important decision of his presidency: emancipation. The drama surrounding Lincoln’s decision will be the focus when several of the nation’s leading Civil War historians gather in Washington for a program that will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the event will take place before a live student audience at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and will also be live-streamed for online viewers, on Sept. 17 – Constitution Day – from 1-2:30 p.m. EST.
Students aged 18 and above are also invited to participate in a special contest developed for this event. To learn more viewing the live-streamed broadcast, view related teaching resources, and find full contest details, visit http://emancipation.neh.gov.
Visualizing Emancipation, an interactive map of slavery’s end produced by the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab, also will be featured. In a special contest developed for this event, students aged 18 and above from across the country are encouraged to explore Visualizing Emancipation (available at http://dsl.richmond.edu) and submit a creative response to the primary sources found there, as an interpretive essay, poem or video about the end of slavery at http://emancipation.neh.gov. Entries are due October 5, and three student winners will travel to Washington, DC with a guest to attend the Constitution Day events and present their winning submissions as guests of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
