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Derek Vandegrift

Charters of Freedom - The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Ri... - 1 views

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    This is the National Archives' "Charters of Freedom" website. In addition to having full transcriptions of the DOI, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, there are links to many ancillary materials as well. Included in the site are lesson suggestions, other primary source materials, and scholarly essays about the legacy of our Founding Documents.
Karin Kugel

Bill of Rights Institute: Landmark Supreme Court Cases - 3 views

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    This website is a great glossary of many Supreme Court cases that dealt with interpreting the Bill of Rights. Some of the topics covered are Religious Liberty, Personal LIberty, Students, Freedom of Speech. This website is a great resource for anyone trying to teach the Bill of Rights through cases.
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    This website has lots of great resources for teaching the Bill of Rights, but this page does a nice job of organizing landmark cases by rights and giving brief, student friendly summaries which would be really helpful in teaching.
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    I particularly like the section specifically related to students and The Supreme Court. Thanks.
Derek Vandegrift

Bill of Rights Institute: Home - 4 views

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    This site has good pdf links to all the founding documents.  Additionally, it includes a section on using the Constitution and connecting it to current events.  I have used this before in class and it works great (and it includes recent news - from the past week!).  It also includes various lessons to use too.
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    The Bill of Rights institute offers a wealth of materials for teachers. In addition to copies of each of the Founding Documents and accompanying essays about each, there are many other materials on the site. Among my favorite resources are the many lesson plans made for teachers of all levels.
Zachary Barr

Bill of Rights-Constitution for Kids! - 2 views

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    I stumbled upon this website while looking up the Bill of Rights. It's too young for me to use with the majority of my students, but I think it'd be great for fifth grade. It breaks down the Bill of Rights into accessible statements, and they look to have a whole series of pages for kids.
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    You might use this with kids on Ed Plans or with ELLs, though even some of this vocab might be tough without scaffolding.
Derek Vandegrift

Bill of Rights Institute: Fourteenth Amendment: Equal Protection (1868) | Bill of Right... - 1 views

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    This is a link to the Bill of Rights Institute's page concerning the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The page includes links to primary source materials and summaries related to important 14th Amendment precedents (Plessy, Brown, Korematsu, Loving, Bakke, etc).
Jennifer Tomaneng

Bill of Rights Institute's Website - 1 views

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    A well organized and student friendly site with a great pdf download of the primary source.
Laura Michael

ESL Basics Bill of Rights Video - 1 views

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    A short video that breaks down the Bill of Rights and makes the ten amendments comprehensible for English language learners.
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    Thanks for bringing your ELL world into this course.
Jennifer Tomaneng

37 Famous Court Cases relating to Education - 1 views

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    In my search for court cases that would both illustrate the 'enduring legacy' of the Bill of Rights' and be of interest and relevant to younger students, I found this site. Very clear, brief explanations on a timeline of court rulings re: educaction, some of them centering around children's rights.
Traci Kerns

U.S. Founding Documents | Congress.gov | Library of Congress - 1 views

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    This site includes many primary resources on the founding documents.  While I think it might be a little overwhelming for students to use, teachers could use the annotated Constitution section which gives excellent notes, information and writings about the Constitution and the BIll of Rights.  It also includes a lot of supporting primary documents that assisted in writing the founding documents.
Traci Kerns

Founding.com: A Project of the Claremont Institute - 1 views

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     A huge library of the founding documents and a timeline.  Many of the documents include a glossary.  However, many of the connected sites don't work.  Also just be careful as this website does seem to have a right wing agenda. 
Rebecca Berwick

Supreme Court podcasts - 1 views

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    This site has a number of podcasts summarizing Supreme Court decisions that influence the rights of students. I like that these podcasts are (mostly) in student-friendly language. I also like the idea of using podcasts as a way of accessing auditory learners and addressing the skill of note-taking and picking out key informaton.
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    I agree, Becca, that this site is quite accessible for students because of the podcasts. The cases they provide are all ones that could be used in the classroom.
Zachary Barr

50 Pivotal U.S. Supreme Court Cases - 1 views

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    This website is great, because it sorts court cases by topic/amendment addressed. Also, because it's from the ACLU, all of the issues revolve around people's rights in a concrete way, which makes it accessible for students.
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    Zach, I do like the way the site is organized. It makes such a difference when the site does not fight the user.
Janis Marchese

America's Historical Documents - 1 views

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    This gives a sample of the most celebrated documents and milestones in history. I thought it was interesting to be able to click on a plethora of links not on just the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constittution, Bill of Rights but also links to the Emancipation Proclamation, Social Security Act, FDR's "Day of Infamy" speech and much more.
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    The National Archives is truly a remarkable site. Remember when we had to teach history without the richness of all the documents we can now get online?
Zachary Barr

First Amendment: Freedom of Religion - 0 views

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    This is a lesson plan that focuses on freedom of religion, specifically as it pertains to school prayer in the case of Engel v. Vitale (1962). It looks like a case in which students can really invest themselves, and has additional cases to build off of in extension opportunities.
Derek Vandegrift

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - 1 views

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    The American Civil Liberties Union has a vast array of materials hosted on their site. Perhaps the materials of greatest use to teachers are the frequent "news releases" about issues pertaining to our individual freedoms that are currently in the news.
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    The is a site that teachers should bookmark and read weekly because it keeps you up to date with the issues of the day.
Michael DiLuzio

The History of the First Amendment - 1 views

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    This is another website that provides background information on the 1st Amendment. I like this website because it talks about a few Supreme Court decisions and justices that have asserted that freedom of Speech is absolute. Similarly, this website does a pretty good job of describing current issues and challenges to free speech.
Zachary Barr

Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport - 1 views

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    Washington's 1790 letter to the Jews of Newport, RI, in which he alludes to First Amendment freedoms of religion. Great resource for tracing freedom of religion throughout history
Laura Michael

Justice Teaching - The First Amendment - 1 views

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    This is a helpful elementary level lesson so that students can understand the five rights contained in the First Amendment.
Derek Vandegrift

The Oyez Project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law | A Multimedia Archive of the Supre... - 2 views

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    The Oyez Project is the best site available for Supreme Court decisions and business currently before the court. As I write this description, there are currently two articles about the court considering same-sex marriage issues on the front page.
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