• Celebrating Our Core Democratic Values
Learn about our Core Democratic Values with the Yak. Thanks to the Detroit Free Press for sharing this issue of the Yak's Corner, originally published October 16, 2003.

• Civics Lesson Plans
These lesson plans from The Educator's Reference Desk provide options for grades 2 through 12.

• Core Democratic Values Materials
Michigan EPIC, Michigan Department of Education, provides interactive lessons related to the CDVs.

• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
The U.S. Government Printing Office provides a page of links to other sites with texts of cornerstone, congressional, presidential and judicial documents and more.

• Michigan Social Studies Content Standards 
The core democratic values are addressed in the revamped Michigan Social Studies content standards.

• Core Democratic Values - Definitions 
Find grade-appropriate definitions for our core democratic values.

• Our Documents
Our Documents is a cooperative effort among National History Day, The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and USA Freedom Corps. One hundred documents available on the site chronicle U.S. history from 1776 to 1965.

• Teaching With Documents
The National Archives and Records Administration "Digital Classroom" offers reproducible copies of primary documents, teaching activities and cross-curricular connections correlated to national standards for history, and civics and government.

• Understanding and Applying Core Democratic Values
This Project TELL Lesson Plan for grades 6-7 helps students understand how our form of government compares to that of other countries and how the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights impact our lives. (TELL=Technology in Education through Leadership and LIteracy, Michigan Department of Education)

• Using Primary Sources in the Classroom
Using authentic artifacts, documents, photographs, or manuscripts to teach the Core Democratic Values? Here are suggestions from The Learning Page at the Library of Congress.

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• State of Michigan Web Site: http://www.michigan.gov
Link to sites for Michigan government departments and agencies.