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.
This lesson is designed to help students develop the skills and understanding to engage in civic dialogue across differences. Students will practice empathy through telling each other’s stories.

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Mikva Challenge

Students will examine Alabama’s past practice of convict leasing, discussing the parties in favor of and against the work process, and they will analyze a persuasive pamphlet urging the end of convict leasing.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

In this lesson, students will think about the definition of democracy and then consider how it might relate to the communities and culture in which they live and participate.

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Facing History and Ourselves

FIRE's First Amendment Curriculum guides students in learning why their free speech rights are so valuable, how they are essential to learning and to democracy, and about their proven history in securing justice and fairness for disempowered and marginalized populations. Centered in social and emotional learning, these lessons demonstrate how basic rights can be threatened and illustrate ways to protect them.

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Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

In this activity, students will use a variety of resources to differentiate between the popular memory of the March and Washington and what actually happened.

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Albert Shanker Institute

In this lesson plan, students explore the connection between literature, imagination, and democracy by engaging with the work of acclaimed author Azar Nafisi, whose work reflects her experiences living and teaching in her native country of Iran, a theocratic state where the government routinely oppressed its citizens, and in the democratic United States, where she later became a citizen.

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Facing History and Ourselves

The Montgomery Bus Boycott is often understood in overly-simplified terms - the result of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat. In this lesson, students build a more complex understanding of the causes and context of the boycott as they analyze four historical documents.

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Stanford History Education Group

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

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 banning hate speech.

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Street Law Inc.

The Speak Up Speak Out facilitation guide is a project-based learning curriculum. It enables students to work together as teams to identify community problems, conduct research about the problem and its root causes, and craft innovative solutions that allow students to take tangible action.

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Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life

This lesson will use primary source documents to explore life during the Great Depression.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

Watching a debate can help students learn more about the candidates. It also provides an opportunity to explore substance versus style.

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Mikva Challenge
