Civics Standard Two - Grades 6-8

Sample Activities

Students could examine the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to determine which safe-guards protect political rights, and which ones protect property [Politics].

This activity could be closely tied to a history activity concerning early U.S. history in which the students then related each of the protections they found to the historical issue that prompted the framers to include it (e.g., no quartering of soldiers in private homes being included because the British did so prior to the American Revolution).

Parent Partnership Project: Students might interview their families concerning the political and property rights protections they enjoy under the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Using this information they might write a story about their family' life if one or more of these protections did not exist [Politics].

Students could examine the Delaware State Constitution and note the similarities and differences between that document and that U.S. Constitution; based on knowledge of the federal system they might suggest some reasons for these differences [Politics].

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