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Whether you’re teaching online or in person, Close Up has a series of engaging classroom lesson plans, student activities, and guided debate structures to help you facilitate civil discussion about current issues and help your students take real, effective action in their community. Many of our lessons seamlessly integrate our Controversial Issues in the News reading materials into classroom discussions and debates that are productive and engaging while offering multiple perspectives.
Lesson Plan | October 15, 2021
This brief manual will help familiarize you with all of the resources that ASP has to offer, including direct testimonials and interviews with members of Congress, lesson plans to promote discussion and facilitate peer-to-peer discourse, and supplemental materials to expand students’ knowledge of policy topics.
Lesson Plan | October 15, 2021
Students will engage with historical examples of the founding documents being used as vision statements about U.S. democracy.
Lesson Plan | October 15, 2021
Students will analyze the Preamble to the Constitution and discuss what it means in a modern context. Students will conduct a close reading of the Preamble, examine specific clauses, and consider how they would interpret and apply those clauses today.
Lesson Plan | October 15, 2021
This pair of lesson plans is intended to help young people consider the rights and responsibilities of members of a democracy and to think about the issue of youth voting.