The Democratic Knowledge Project (DKP) at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics offers research-based curricular materials and professional learning opportunities that support educating for constitutional democracy. Below please find descriptions and links to our publicly available curricular resources.
“Civic Engagement in Our Democracy” is a year-long eighth grade civics curriculum, which seeks to help students identify what they value, deepen what they understand, and develop what they can do to be self-caring, reciprocal, and self-confident changemakers.
The elections module is a set of activities to support teaching and learning about elections in the United States.
This collection of historical biographies tells the story of civic leaders through the lens of the 10 Questions for Young Changemakers.
The Student-led Civics Project Workbook is an online tool that students and teachers can use to facilitate Student-led Civics Projects.
The DKP partnered with the History and Social Studies Department and 5th grade educators in the Cambridge (MA) Public School District to create the fifth-grade unit, “Expanding Liberty, Equality, and the Suffrage: 1776-1924”
Portrait of a Tyrant is a six-episode adventure game for students to learn about the Declaration of Independence, its historical context and contemporary relevance. Along with engaging game mechanics, the game makes ample and innovative use of large numbers of primary source images, texts, songs, and poems.
In We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy, you will gain a foundational knowledge of American constitutional democracy and understand how to encourage others to explore their own civic paths, while in parallel crafting your own civic voice and identity.
The Current Events Toolkit provides teachers with materials to help their students think through and understand complex and sometimes controversial current events.