Look at

Grolier

Go to SCS Library Links page - select Grolier Kids

Search Citizenship - read articles in New Book of Knowledge and Grolier

Check the upper right hand corner - for websites and magazines/periodicals

See "Bens Guide" different levels 

Fact Monster article on Citizen

Youth Leadership Initiative

Constitution- related websites:

Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention Home Page

Library of Congress (LOC)

URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/

Democracy in America--Hypertext of Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America 

American Studies Programs at the University of Virginia

URL: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/detoc/home.html

In Search of Tocqueville's Democracy in America

National Cable Satellite Corporation 

URL: http://www.tocqueville.org/

The Alien and Sedition Acts

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School 

URL: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/alsedact.asp

The Freedom Forum Online

The Freedom Forum Foundation

URL: http://www.freedomforum.org/

The Proposed Equal Rights Amendment

Professor Douglas Linder

URL: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/era.htm

The U. S. Bill of Rights

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) 

URL: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html

Citizenship - related websites

Betsy Ross Home Page

Independence Hall Association (IHA)

URL: http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/

Center for Immigration Studies Home Page

Center for Immigration Studies

URL: http://www.cis.org/

Citizenship for Permanent Residents

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Homeland Security

Ellis Island American Family Immigration History Center

The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation (SL/EIF, Inc.)

URL: http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum and the National Archives and Records Administration

URL: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/index.html

Historical Flags of the United States

Eric Cooper

URL: http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/flags/fedflag.shtml

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America

United States Senate

URL: http://origin.www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/amdt14.html

The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive

The Whitman Project 

URL: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Department of Homeland Security

URL: http://www.ice.gov

ALPHA THEMES 2009-2010

STANDARDS FOR THE 21st CENTURY LEARNER GOALS 

Standard: 1 Inquire, think critically and gain knowledge. 

Skills Indicator(s):  

1.1.3 Develop and refine a range of questions to frame the search for new understanding 

1.1.4 Find, evaluate, and select appropriate sources to answer questions. 

1.1.5 Evaluate information found in selected sources on the basis of accuracy, validity, 

appropriateness for needs, importance, and social and cultural context. 

Benchmarks: 

• Formulate questions about the topic with guidance 

• Predict answers to inquiry questions based on background knowledge and beginning 

observation or experience. 

• Assess questions to determine which can be answered by simple facts, which cannot be 

answered, and which would lead to an interesting inquiry. 

• Select a variety of credible sources in different formats relevant to research needs. 

• Evaluate and select information based on usefulness, currency, accuracy, authority, and point 

of view. 

Dispositions Indicator(s):  

1.2.1 Display initiative and engagement by posing questions and investigating answers beyond 

the collection of superficial facts.  

1.2.4 Maintain a critical stance by questioning the validity and accuracy of all information.

Responsibilities Indicator(s): 

1.3.3 Follow ethical and legal guidelines in gathering and using information.

Self-Assessment Strategies Indicator(s):  

1.4.1 Monitor own information-seeking processes for effectiveness and progress, and adapt as 

necessary. 

1.4.3 Monitor gathered information, and assess for gaps or weaknesses.

2.4.2 Reflect on systematic process, and assess for completeness of investigation 

3.4.2 Assess the quality and effectiveness of the learning product