Government · Week 12 · Institutions, Courts, and Federalism
Government Close to Home
Mapping who provides water, schools, roads, and tribal services in the Coachella Valley, including the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, and noticing the unseen people who keep a community running.
- Students will
- Students identify who provides local services and how they are paid for, distinguish reserved from concurrent powers, and recognize tribal governments as part of local civic life.
- SEL skill
- Notice and acknowledge the people whose work keeps a community running
- What it looks like
- Students practice attunement by noticing the people whose work keeps a community running.
- Content focus
- Government close to home
- Format
- Think write pair share
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding how other people see things and caring about them, including people whose backgrounds differ from yours. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 12.7.2: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 12: Principles of American Democracy (standard 12.7, item 2)
- 12.7.3: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 12: Principles of American Democracy (standard 12.7, item 3)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST4 Relate current events to the physical and human characteristics of places and regions. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Civ.5.9-12 Evaluate how well citizens and institutions address social and political problems at local, state, tribal, national, and international levels.
- Literacy in history: WHST.11-12.7 Conduct short and sustained research projects to answer a question or solve a problem.
Fits these textbook chapters
- Government Alive! Power, Politics, and You, Chapter 6: Federalism: National, State, and Local Powers
- United States Government and Civics, Chapter 4: Federalism
- United States Government and Civics, Chapter 8: State and Local Legislative Branches
- United States Government and Civics, Chapter 11: Structure and Functions of the Executive Branch
- United States Government and Civics, Chapter 12: State and Local Executive Branches
- United States Government and Civics, Chapter 21: Financing Government
- United States Government and Civics, Chapter 22: Making Social and Domestic Policy
- Magruder's American Government, Chapter 4: Federalism
- Magruder's American Government, Chapter 15: Government at Work: The Bureaucracy
- Magruder's American Government, Chapter 16: Financing Government
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More social awareness activities for Government
- Ideas the Founders Borrowed Social awarenessTracing how Greek, Roman, English, and Enlightenment thinkers shaped the Constitution, then noticing which voices have shaped students' own beliefs.
- Landmark Cases, Changing Minds Social awarenessTracing the shift from Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board of Education and reflecting on what helps a person or a nation change its mind.
- A Free and Responsible Press Social awarenessDiscussing why a free press matters and comparing how two outlets cover the same event, practicing curiosity about why others trust different sources.
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