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Professional Development For Elementary and
Middle School Teachers

 
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“This experience has been very meaningful to me as a classroom teacher.  My eyes have been opened-up to presenting different sides of recorded history and developing strategies to select materials that are meaningful for my students.” 

Bill Robbins, Lulu Ross Elementary




(all available at the ERC)

THE BILL OF RIGHTS
(Milestone Document in the National Archives)

THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND BEYOND, 1792-1991
(Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution)

THE FREE AND THE UNFREE, A NEW HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
by Peter N. Carroll and David W. Noble (Penguin)

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
(National Braille Press)

WE THE KIDS, THE PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUION OF THE UNITED STATES
illustrations and foreword by David Catrow (Dial)

THE CONSTITUTION
by Warren Colman (Children’s Press)

THE CREATION OF THE CONSTITUTION
[Opposing Viewpoints Series] edited by William Dudley (Greenhaven Press)

THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, THE FIRST CONSTITUTION OF THEUNITED STATES
by Barbara Silberdick Feinberg (Twenty-First Century Books)

IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY, THE STORY OF AMERICA’S BILL OF RIGHTS
by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)

SHH!  WE’RE WRITING THE CONSTITUTION
by Jean Fritz, pictures by Tomie de Paola (Putnam)

A HISTORY OF US,  FROM COLONIES TO COUNTRY, 1735-1791
[volume 3] by Joy Hakim (Oxford University Press)

PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY: THE CONSTITUION AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS
edited by Ellen Hansen (Discovery Enterprises, Ltd.)

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
by Charles C. Haynes [Fastback Series] (Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation)

THE FIRST AMERNDMENT IN SCHOOLS
by Charles C. Haynes et al. (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)

THE BILL OF RIGHTS, THE FIRST TEN AMENDMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTION
by David L. Hudson, Jr. (Enslow)

THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT, EQUAL PROTECTIONUNDER THE LAW
by David L. Hudson, Jr. (Enslow)

…IF YOU WERE THERE WHEN THEY SIGNED THE CONSTITUTION
by Elizabeth Levy, illustrated by Joan Holub (Scholastic)

TO ESTABLISH JUSTICE, CITIZENSHIP AND THE CONSTITUTION
by Patricia McKissack and Arlene Zarembka (Knopf)

THE BILL OF RIGHTS
[Opposing Viewpoints Series] edited by William Dudley (Greenhaven)

THE STORY OF THE CONSTITUTION
by Marilyn Prolman (Children’s Press)

THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE, A STUDY OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
(American Civil Liberties Foundation of Delaware)

THE SUPREME COURT OF THEUNITED STATES, ITS BEGINNINGS & ITS JUSTICES 1970-1991 
(Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution)

TEACHING WITH DOCUMENTS,
USING PRIMARY SOURCES FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
(National Archives and Records Administration & National Council for the Social Studies)

THE BILL OF RIGHTS
by Michael Teitelbaum (The Child’s World)

THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
by Michael Teitelbaum (The Child’s World)

WE THE PEOPLE…
(Center for Civic Education)

WE THE PEOPLE… PROJECT CITIZEN
[both student and teacher’s guide]
(Center for Civic Education & the National Conference of State Legislatures)

THE CONSTITUTION, THE PREAMBLE AND THE ARTICLES
by Daniel Weidner (Enslow)

CREATING THE CONSTITUTION, THE PEOPLE AND EVENTS THAT FORME THE NATIONS
by Daniel Weidner (Enslow)

NON-BOOK MATERIALS

Video ARE WE TO BE A NATION?
[Liberty!  The American Revolution Series] PBS

CD-Rom - THE CONSTITUION AND SUPREME COURT
[American Journey Series]  ( Primary Source Media)

Video -  FREEDOM, A HISTORY OF US (PBS)

Periodical -  COBBLESTONE,  September 1987 “Celebrating Our Constitution”

CD-Rom SHH! WE’RE WRITING THE CONSTITUTION (L3i Learning/Scholastic)

VideoSHH!  WE’RE WRITING THE CONSTITUTION (Weston Woods/Scholastic)

 
           

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