Idaho Social Studies 9-12.GOV.22
The Standard
Distinguish between civil rights and civil liberties and how they are put into practice in our daily lives.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Citizenship and Civic Participation
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify freedoms the government generally cannot restrict, such as speech and religion, and legal protections against discrimination. They apply those ideas to school, housing, and voting situations.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why a public school banning a political pin because of its message raises a free speech issue. They can also explain why a landlord rejecting an applicant because of race is a civil rights issue.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call any unfair rule a civil rights violation or assume free speech protects them from rules set by private companies. They may also think public schools can never limit student speech.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A principal bans a peaceful political pin because of its message, and a landlord rejects an applicant because of race. Label each issue as a civil liberty or civil right, and explain why.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards showing a school speech ban, a race-based housing denial, and a girls-only club ban; sort them by protection.
Ask: Does free speech protect a student from a private social media site's rules? Write two sentences explaining who sets those rules.
Play a timed match using situation cards and labels for speech, religion, equal access to housing, and equal access to school.
Read the school handbook's speech rule and nondiscrimination policy; underline one line affecting a liberty and one addressing a civil right.
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