Using the State Curriculum: Social Studies, Grade 8

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Standard 1.0 Political Science

Topic B. Individual and Group Participation in the Political System

Indicator 1. Analyze the influence of individuals and groups on shaping public policy

Objective b. Evaluate ways the citizens should use, monitor and influence the formation and implementation of public policy

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http://www.civiced.org/index.php?page=introduction Home page for Project Citizen, the Center for Civic Education’s program for teaching students about public policy and how citizens can influence it. Project Citizen’s instructional approach can be easily modified so students can evaluate public policy in historical contexts. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html “Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Women Association Collection, 1848 – 1921,” from the Library of Congress. Extensive source of primary sources related to women’s 100 year struggle to achieve suffrage. Sources document and illustrate methods citizens used to advance women’s rights. Site links to “By Popular Demand,” which contains pictures from the struggle. (Note: use only pre-1877 materials for 8^th grade) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Homepage of the Library of Congress’s American Memory collection. For this objective, use the search terms “abolitionists,” “temperance,” and “education” to find primary sources on early reform movements. http://library.brown.edu/cds/temperance/ “Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition” collection at Brown University. Contains hundreds of primary sources from 19th century temperance movement, including many illustrating methods citizens used to advance this cause. (Recommended: sources from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Rhode Island) The Century 1893 profile of Dorthea Dix in The Century, a 19^th century magazine. Article details methods Dix used to improve education for the indigent insane. http://www.icivics.org/curriculum/citizenship-and-participation Online Citizenship and Participation unit, from iCivics.org http://www.icivics.org/subject/citizenship-and-participation Interactive Citizenship and Participation games, from iCivics.org
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Resource Links

http://www.civiced.org/index.php?page=introduction: Home page for Project Citizen, the Center for Civic Education’s program for teaching students about public policy and how citizens can influence it. Project Citizen’s instructional approach can be easily modified so students can evaluate public policy in historical contexts.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html: “Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Women Association Collection, 1848 – 1921,” from the Library of Congress. Extensive source of primary sources related to women’s 100 year struggle to achieve suffrage. Sources document and illustrate methods citizens used to advance women’s rights. Site links to “By Popular Demand,” which contains pictures from the struggle. (Note: use only pre-1877 materials for 8^th grade)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html: Homepage of the Library of Congress’s American Memory collection. For this objective, use the search terms “abolitionists,” “temperance,” and “education” to find primary sources on early reform movements.
http://library.brown.edu/cds/temperance/: “Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition” collection at Brown University. Contains hundreds of primary sources from 19th century temperance movement, including many illustrating methods citizens used to advance this cause. (Recommended: sources from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Rhode Island)
The Century: 1893 profile of Dorthea Dix in The Century, a 19^th century magazine. Article details methods Dix used to improve education for the indigent insane.
http://www.icivics.org/curriculum/citizenship-and-participation: Online Citizenship and Participation unit, from iCivics.org
http://www.icivics.org/subject/citizenship-and-participation: Interactive Citizenship and Participation games, from iCivics.org

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