Regardless of where your teaching happens this year, the Center has the resources and support you need to create meaningful and engaging lessons for your students. Choose from a variety of Scholar Exchanges and resources!
Throughout the 2020-2021 school year, the Center’s weekly classes will allow student to dive into constitutional topics like:
- the ratification debates
- Federalism
- the Electoral College
- Voting Rights
- the 14th Amendment
You can access all sessions on Zoom using a home computer, tablet, or phone.
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Part lecture and part lively conversation, these sessions are open to the public so that students, teachers, and parents can join in a constitutional discussion with the Center's scholars.
In this session, students will examine the structure and function of the U.S. Constitution, and the methods scholars use to interpret it. Students will be trained in the practice of historical thinking skills as they examine primary sources and hone their constitutional thinking skills by asking “What may the government do?” The session will conclude with the ideas behind the practice of civil dialogue skills where we channel our inner Louis Brandeis who famously remarked, “Come let us reason together!”
- Monday, August 31 and Wednesday, September 2
- Middle School Session – 12 p.m. ET
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Register here.
- High School and College Session – 2 p.m. ET
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Register here.
- Friday, September 4
- All Ages Session – 1 p.m. ET
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Register here.
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Continue the conversation with a Private Scholar Exchange! These sessions include your class, a scholar, and a moderator—and are available on any of the topics previously discussed in a public Scholar Exchange. Complete a survey here for more information or to register your class. A member of the education team will contact you to help with the planning process.
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Classroom Exchanges connect middle and high school students across the United States for virtual discussions about the Constitution. These sessions are moderated by National Constitution Center scholars, federal judges, and master teachers, but led by student voice. Participating teachers receive lesson plans on the content of the discussion and on civil dialogue techniques, as well as educational resources from the Center's Interactive Constitution.
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To commemorate the centennial anniversary of voting rights for women, and as part of its Women and the Constitution initiative, the National Constitution Center will open The 19th Amendment: How Women Won the Vote this Wednesday, August 26. The exhibit traces the triumphs and struggles that led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment, and features some of the many women who transformed constitutional history—including Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul, and Ida B. Wells—and will allow visitors to better understand the long fight for women’s suffrage.
The 3,000-square-foot exhibit features nearly 100 artifacts, including a rare printing of the Declaration of Sentiments from the first women’s convention at Seneca Falls, a ballot box used to collect women’s votes in the late 1800s, Pennsylvania’s ratification copy of the 19th Amendment, and “Votes for Women” ephemera from the era.
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Join us August 26 where we will offer live online programming all day.
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The National Constitution Center's education team is here to help with any of our online resources. Email [email protected] with questions or comments on how we can help you and your students with your remote learning needs.
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