The curated resources linked below are an initial sample of the resources coming from a collaborative and rigorous review process with the EAD Content Curation Task Force.
As a highly-structured model for conversation, Deliberations allow teachers to help students cooperatively discuss contested political issues by carefully considering multiple perspectives and searching for consensus. This Deliberation focuses on the health of the United States' democracy.

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Street Law Inc.

In this lesson, students analyze benchmarks developed by political scientists to measure the health of democracy in the United States.

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Facing History and Ourselves

This lesson provides students with a variety of materials to learn about the polio epidemic and it has them draw connections between that event and the current pandemic.

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iCivics, Inc.

In this lesson plan, students consider the importance of young people in democracy and analyze stories of civic participation using a framework of questions created by Danielle Allen.

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Facing History and Ourselves

This lesson plan will help students grasp the goals of the federal government as stated in the preamble to the constitution through small group exercises and concluding with a presentation to their classmates.

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Emerging America - Collaborative for Educational Services

This lesson plan will help students grasp the goals of the federal government as stated in the preamble to the Constitution through small group exercises and concluding with a presentation to their classmates.

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Emerging America - Collaborative for Educational Services

In this lesson, students analyze a daring challenge to the legal and social order of the time: Susan B. Anthony’s casting of an illegal ballot in the 1872 presidential election.

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Facing History and Ourselves

In this lesson plan, students will view pictures, letters, and a news article, among other documents, to determine why students were not able to attend school during the Great Depression.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

Decades before Barack Obama built a multiracial coalition and Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win a major-party presidential nomination, Shirley Chisholm launched a historic campaign. This Learning Resource, exploring Chisholm's legacy and lessons for candidates today, is a collaboration between The Washington Post's "Made by History," the Made by U.S. coalition, and New American History.

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New American History
