Resources for Educators
Local Election Toolkit
presented by: KQED
Letters to the Next President 2.0 asked students to share their views on an issue that mattered to them during the 2016 election. But students don’t need a presidential election to make their voices...
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- Tools/Toolkit
PBS Election Central: After the Election
presented by: PBS Education: Election Central
After a winner is announced in a Presidential election, the U.S. begins a peaceful transition of power from the President to the President-elect in order to sustain our democracy. How can being a good...
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- Activity
Resources to Gear Up for the Inauguration and First 100 Days
presented by: KQED
January 20 will mark the 58th inauguration in our nation’s history. President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign and subsequent election was inspired in part by widespread frustration with business as ...
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- Activity, Informational
MAPP: Your Story’s Afterlife (webinar, Connectedlearning.tv)
This webinar produced by Connected Learning TV as part of a series on “Storytelling and Digital-Age Civics,” which was organized by the Media, Act...
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- Professional Learning
Stuff You Can Try: Activities from Writing for a Change
This section of Writing for a Change: Boosting Literacy and Learning Through Social Action provides suggested activities for educators to try using th...
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- Activity
Writing for a Change: Boosting Literacy and Learning Through Social Action (book)
presented by: National Writing Project
Growing out of NWP’s five-year partnership with the Centre for Social Action in England, Writing for a Change shows teachers how to engage students ...
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- Professional Learning
#youthaction: Becoming Political in the Digital Age (book, 2014)
This anthology edited by Ben Kirshner and Ellen Middaugh on youth activism in the digital age includes perspectives from political science, education,...
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- Professional Learning
MAPP: Media Library
This collection of videos and memes, many of which are made by and for youth, covers a range of topics and is searchable by maker practice, civic issu...
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- Informational
Mozilla: Letters to the Next President 2.0 Letter Remix (Thimble Template)
presented by: Mozilla Foundation
Remix this letter template from the Mozilla Leadership Network and use it as a guide to think about which issues you or your students might include yo...
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- Activity
National Commission on Writing Report: “Letters to President: Students’ Voices” (report)
presented by: National Writing Project
This report from the National Commission on Writing features writing that was selected from the Letters to the Next President Project in 2008, which c...
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- Informational
Vote Smart
Vote Smart’s mission is to provide free, factual, unbiased information on candidates and elected officials to ALL Americans. Vote Smart refuses...
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- Informational
Pew Research Center Political Typology Quiz
Are you a Steadfast Conservative? A Solid Liberal? Or somewhere in between? Take The Pew Research Center Political Typology Quiz to find out which one...
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- Informational
Countable
Countable makes it quick and easy to understand the laws Congress is considering. They also streamline the process of contacting your lawmaker, so you...
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- Informational