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The History Success Kit. High School History Resources For The Ohio Graduation Test, Miami Valley Teaching American History

Miami Valley Teaching American History Project

This instructional guide is from the History Success Kit: High School History Resources for the Ohio Graduation Test, which covers topics in American history from the Enlightenment to the Modern Era, 1700-2009. The instructional guide is from the Miami Valley Teaching American History project.

The New Student Politics Curriculum Guide, Keith Morton, Sandra Enos, Sarah E. Long

Curriculum

The New Student Politics: The Wingspread Statement on Student Civic Engagement (2002) can be assigned as a text in a political science service-learning course that has as an explicit course objective the exploration of contemporary conceptions of citizenship, or a sociology service-learning course that focuses on community building and social transformation. Additionally, the text can be incorporated in service-learning courses across the disciplines with the aid of The New Student Politics Curriculum Guide. The Curriculum Guide is designed to provide a structure for engaging students in reflection on their community service experiences in a way that allows for the …

Heg77-84 How A Bill Becomes Laws In Nebraska, Janet Wilson

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

This NebGuide looks at the steps necessary for a bill to become a law in Nebraska.

The legislative process sometimes seems to be clothed in an aura of mystery. An understanding of the organization of the governing body and the steps involved in the introduction and passage of a bill should help remove some of the mystery.

A bill is an idea for a new law, or an idea to abolish or change an existing law.

Several hundred bills, ideas about many things, enter the legislative process in Nebraska each time the legislature meets.