Published:

2006

In December 2006, the Sunnylands Trust provided a glossy, four-color boxed set of classroom resources called "Teaching the Constitution" to 22,300 educators around the country. Included in the box are materials specially created to help educators teach about the most important documents in U.S. history, including books, hip-pocket guides, and DVDs.

The books include: Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives; Our Constitution by Donald A. Ritchie and JusticeLearning.org; Our Rights by David J. Bodenhamer, and The Pursuit of Justice:  Supreme Court Decisions that Shaped America by Kermit L. Hall and John J. Patrick. The hip pocket guides include: The United States Constitution, What it Says, What it Means: A Hip Pocket Guide by JusticeLearning.org, and Understanding Democracy: A Hip Pocket Guide by John J. Patrick. The set of four Sunnylands Seminars DVDs include Our Constitution: A Conversation; A Conversation on the Constitution: Judicial Independence; Key Constitutional Concepts, and Mandate: The President and the People.

Among those receiving the boxed sets were 8,300 educators participating in Sunnylands' Annenberg Classroom (www.annenbergclassroom.org) as well as 13,200 public high school social studies department chairs, civics, and government teachers. Five hundred were sent to public school social studies teachers in Pennsylvania and 300 were sent to the National Constitution Center for distribution to teachers.