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Lesson Ideas for Using Political Cartoons to Teach Civics

Let's Cultivate Greatness

I can’t imagine teaching civics and government without political cartoons—they are essential to the subject. This analysis strategy works well for bell ringers to cover current political news and as part of the main lesson to teach civics concepts. Then, download your FREE lesson kit to get started.

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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Girl Scouts against the world

The Hechinger Report

Next come outdoor adventures, entrepreneurship, civics and wellness, along with some art-focused badges. It published a special edition of its 110-year-old youth magazine, newly renamed from Boys’ Life to Scout Life, honoring them.) This year, the organization inaugurated its first female Eagle Scouts. (It

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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. history and democracy depends on where you live, however.

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Marjory Stoneman students give legislators a civics lesson

The Hechinger Report

This directive would have affected about 75,000 people found mentally incapable of managing their financial affairs, according to an analysis by Fortune magazine. Related: When black history isn’t relegated to a single month. It’s time to give legislators the civics lesson they apparently never received. Prayers won’t fix this.

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