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The Nomination and Confirmation of a New Supreme Court Justice

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Celebrating the Class of 2020 and an End to a Unique School Year

Oregon’s Plans for Living with COVID-19

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A Townhall Simulation: Getting Along with Our Neighbors

Community Action Projects for Elementary Students

COVID-19 and Voting in 2020

Project Citizen Distance Learning Guide

Community Action Projects for Middle School Students

The 2020 Election: Part 2 – Super Tuesday and Beyond

COVID-19 Update: The Epidemic Comes to Oregon and the U.S.

Strategies for Building Consensus

Oregon’s 2020 Legislative Session: Stalled by Senators Walkout

The 2020 Election: Part 1 – The Primary Season Begins

The Outsiders – a Moot Court Extension

The 1619 Project and the 400-Year American Legacy of Slavery

Extraterrestrials and Your Rights!

The 2019 Coronavirus: Public Health, Economic, and Political Impacts

Community Action Projects for High School Students

The Trial of Jeremy Christian and Oregon’s Hate Crime Laws

2019-2020 Mock Trial – State of Oregon v. Cy Miles

The 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment: Primary Sources

The Senate Trial of President Donald Trump

Iran, the United States, and the War Powers Act

Free Speech and Online Platforms

The United States and NATO: World Relationships and Why they Matter

2019 Oregon Civics Conference Resources

The Supreme Court and DACA

Protesting for Change: Young People Rise Up Around the World

Wildfires and Who Controls the Power

Vaping, Teens, and the Regulation of Substances

The NBA, China, and Free Speech

Young People and the Climate Crisis

2020 High School Hearing Questions – Resources

Resources for Supreme Court of Oregon Oral Arguments – November 13, 2019

The 2019 Presidential Impeachment Inquiry

2020 We the People State Level Hearing Questions – High School

Street Law Classroom Teacher FAQ

Political Limits on Executive Branch Employees: The Hatch Act

Climate Change Revisited

2020 Presidential Candidates

Juvenile Justice

Hate Crimes

Citizenship Question on 2020 Census

Electoral College: Fix It or Nix It?

Mock Trial in the Classroom – Student Handouts

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Asylum

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College Admissions Scandal

Mock Trial in the Classroom – Strategies

16-Year-Old Vote?

Oregon Legislature

Keeping Up with Current Events

Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas

Declaration of Emergency

Oregon High School Mock Trial: Useful Forms

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Crisis in Venezuela

Mock Trial: State v. Goldilocks

Measles

Divided Government

Criminal Justice Reform and Felon Voting

Time Person of the Year 2018

Brexit

President George H.W. Bush: A Life of Service

Migrant Caravan

2019 OR Mock Trial Case: Finley MacPherson v. Coho Community Association

Affirmative Action: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

Oregon Mock Trial Videos

Voting Matters

Oregon Ballot Measures

Electing a Governor

Concerns at Home and Abroad: Michael and Jamal – Natural Disaster and International Disaster

Presumption of Innocence

Supreme Court Nomination 2018

Distracted Driving – A Lesson Plan

Protests and Athletes

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Case Study: State of Oregon v. Johnson

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Case Study: State of Oregon v. B.A.H. (Juvenile)

Case Study: State ex rel. Juvenile Dept. of Clackamas County v. M.A.D.

Case Study: State of Oregon v. Henderson

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Case Study: Nakashima v. Oregon State Board of Education

Case Study: Lowe v. Philip Morris

Case Study: Loosli v. City of Salem

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Case Study: Barrett v. Williams

Case Study: State of Oregon v. Neff

Street Law – Oregon Law Supplement 2016

Street Law – Oregon Law Supplement 2008

Amending the Constitution

Straws

2018 Mini Mock Case: Perez v. Dempsey, et.al.

Courthouse Experience Tour FAQ

We the People Constitutional Hearings – Past National Middle School Questions

We the People Constitutional Hearings – Past National High School Questions

We the People Constitutional Hearings – Past State High School Questions

Courthouse Experience Classroom Materials – The Multnomah County Courthouse

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Courthouse Experience Classroom Materials – The Gus Solomon Courthouse

Courthouse Experience Classroom Materials – Fun Facts About the Court Tour!

Courthouse Experience Classroom Materials – The Oregon Court System

Courthouse Experience Classroom Materials – Sample Docket

Courthouse Experience Classroom Materials – Docket Terminology

2013 OR Mock Trial Case: State of Oregon v. Taylor Durden

2014 OR Mock Trial Case: Mia Perez v. Shannon Dempsey, Jordan Reddick, and Rubicon Soccer Club, Inc.

2015 OR Mock Trial Case: Avery Leon v. Chinook County Transportation District and Lindsey Palmer

2016 OR Mock Trial Case: State of Oregon v. Bobby Dousa

2017 OR Mock Trial Case: Landry Lopez v. Buddie’s Burgers, LLC

2018 OR Mock Trial Case: State of Oregon v. Dannie DeLuca

In Re: Gault – a Moot Court Lesson Plan

OMG, GMO! – A Townhall Simulation

Klamath Basin Water Wars – a Townhall Simulation

Immigration – a Townhall Simulation

Links: Landmark Supreme Court Cases for & about Students

Links: United States Government & Law

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Guns & Gun Violence – A Townhall Simulation

John McCain

Sandra Day O’Connor Award for Civics Education

Jerusalem

Summit – U.S. and North Korea

Lynching Memorial

Presidential Pardon

Starbucks and Implicit Bias

Tariffs

Census 2020 – A Citizenship Question?

Facebook and Datamining

Gerrymandering

Women’s History

Naming, Renaming, and Rethinking History

Student Protest

Common Sense Caucus

Influenza

North & South Korea and the Winter Olympics

Federal Government Shutdown

Robert Mueller, Special Counsel

DACA and Remembering MLK

Net Neutrality

Oregon Measure 101

Person of the Year 2017 (Time Magazine)

#metoo Brings Sexual Harassment Out From Behind Closed Doors

Niger and U.S. Interests in Africa

Catalonia – Independence?

Opioid Crisis

Fire – Eagle Creek & Beyond

Nobel Peace Prize

Distracted Driving

The Plight of Puerto Rico

Refugees in Crisis: The Rohingya

To Tweet or Not To Tweet

When Disaster Strikes – Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Constitution and Citizenship Day