Teaching Civics Deliberating in a Democracy Farm Subsidies

Deliberating in a Democracy Farm Subsidies

Posted By Jennifer Bloom On March 1, 2011 @ 5:29 pm In | Comments Disabled

Jennifer Bloom, Claudia Parliament, Alan Withers, Filiz Yargici

Engage students in a Structured Academic Controversy in this lesson that focuses on developing deliberation skills using the issue of farm subsidies (a critical question for Minnesota and the nation).

This lesson from the Deliberating in a Democracy Minnesota project teaches deliberation skills so that conflicting views can be heard, understood, and valued. The lesson includes a reading about the pros and cons of farm subsidies for increasing understanding of the issue.

Objectives

Students will learn the process of deliberation
Students will increase understanding of the farm subsidy issue from multiple perspectives
Students will practice skills for democracy

Time to Complete

One class period

Materials needed

Procedure

See Deliberating in a Democracy Steps and Steps Video

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URLs in this post:

[1] Deliberating in a Democracy Farm Subsidies: http://teachingcivics.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Deliberating-in-a-Democracy-Farm-Subsidies.docx

[2] Deliberating in a Democracy Steps: https://teachingcivics.org../wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Deliberating-in-a-Democracy-Steps.pdf

[3] Deliberating in a Democracy Steps Video: http://did.deliberating.org/lessons/proceduresvideo.html

[4] Making Civics Real: SAC on Racial Profiling with MN teacher JoEllen Ambrose: https://www.learner.org/series/making-civics-real/controversial-public-policy-issues/workshop-session/

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