ENGAGE: TEACH IT!
Learn how to use our video resources to enhance and supplement your great teaching of current events. Get your students motivated; get them talking and acting by engaging their minds in controversial ideas. By allowing students the freedom to choose their side of the issue through research and debate, powerful learning soon follows. Join Alison Turner, high school social studies teacher in Sauk Prairie, WI, as she guides her students through the controversial issue of using Native American mascots in the public schools of Wisconsin.
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Lesson Resources:
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Alison Turner,
Social Studies Teacher
Sauk Prairie HS

Structured Academic Controversy using Taking a Stand (PDF)

How a Bill Becomes a Law (PDF)





More ways to use the Structured  Academic Controversy lesson plan:
What is the Budget Repair Bill?
From the Legislative Reference Bureau:

AN ACT relating to: state finances, collective bargaining for public employees, compensation and fringe benefits of public employees, the state civil service system, the Medical Assistance program, sale of certain facilities, granting bonding authority, and making an appropriation.

- A summary from Madison.com
- Senate Bill 11
- Assembly Bill 11
- Timeline of events