The Center for Civic Education
The mission of the Center for Civic Education is to promote an enlightened
and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the
practice of democracy in the United States and other countries.
Highly recommended.
The Center for Civic Education
Constitutional Rights Foundation Youth Web Site
Constitutional Rights Foundation Youth Web Site
American Bar Association Division for Public Education
American Bar Association Division for Public Education
The Vermont Department of Education
The Vermont Department of Education
Center for Education in Law and Democracy
Center for Education in Law and Democracy
Phi Alpha Delta Public Service Center
Phi Alpha Delta Public Service Center
Street Law
Street Law
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation-Chicago offers
a wealth of information on a variety of law related education issues.
Archival information on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions is also available.
Support materials for mock trials and moot court are also provided.
www.crfc.org
The Bill of Rights Institute offers free lesson
plans, a monthly online newsletter. They also offer a summer institute
for teachers.
www.billofrightsinstitute.org
Landmark Supreme Court Decisions can be found
at this site dating back to 1794, the case which determined that a
jury has the power to judge law in bringing a general verdict.
www.constitution.org/ussc/usscdeci.htm
The history of Jim Crow laws provides teachers
with lesson plans and a monthly updates on new materials.
www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm
The Anti-Defamation League provides materials
to assist teachers creating anti-bias classrooms; history of hate
crime, and current information about national and international race
bias issues.
www.adl.org/adl.asp
American Civil Liberties Union offers a variety
of materials for teachers of all grades.
www.aclu.org
Teaching Tolerance is sponsored by the Southern
Poverty Law Center. Provides videos and lesson plans. Also offers
small grants to teachers for projects promoting tolerance and celebration
of diversity.
www.tolerance.org
Choices for the 21st Century is a project of
the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown
University. The project has created 15 units on contemporary and historical
US foreign policy issues. Each unit includes background information,
descriptions of options available to the US and extensive teaching
suggestions. Recent units are titled Keeping the Peace in an Age of
Conflict: Debating the US Role and Responding to Terrorism: Challenges
for Democracy.
www.choices.edu
Close-Up Foundation, a civic education organization designed
to encourage responsible, informed participation in the democratic
process offers a variety of issues-oriented booklets on social and
international affairs that contain background information and a debate
section. Special editions of the booklets adapt the materials for
lower level readers and for Spanish-speaking students.
www.closeup.org
