Every year the United States celebrates Constitution Day on September 17. How much do your students know about U.S. constitutional rights? Do they know that those rights are different in the context of public schools?
In this post on the Primary Source Nexus we have compiled a list of Supreme Court cases over the years related to various amendments along with several articles and videos discussing students' constitutional rights.
6 - 8 9 - 12 Social Studies/History Civics U.S. Constitution
Some of what you'll find in the latest issue:
- new lessons from TPS Eastern Region added to the Citizen U Multidisciplinary Civics Library
- poetry and Earth Day resources plus a new interactive from the Center on Representative Congress
- upcoming Library events plus TPS Consortium webinars/workshops and courses
- select Library blog posts
- ideas for teaching with primary sources from teacher pros in the field
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