Student-led High School Course on Khan Academy

The National Constitution Center has partnered with Khan Academy to create an educational experience that empowers students to learn at their own pace. A complement to the teacher-led Constitution 101 curriculum, this self-paced high school level course offers nine engaging units in which students hear from top constitutional scholars and explore critical constitutional debates shaping our nation today.

Each unit encourages independent discovery and mastery of constitutional concepts through resources and activities, such as:

  • Video interviews with leading constitutional scholars, professors, and experts from diverse political philosophies
  • Primary source documents and landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases
  • Relevant exercises and quizzes that put knowledge into practice, designed to help students apply the concepts they’ve learned to the world around them

Course Videos on Khan Academy

Unit 1: Civil Dialogue, The Constitution, and Constitutional Interpretation
Unit 2: Principles of the American Revolution: The Ideas and Events The Led to Change
Unit 3: The Road to Reform, the Constitutional Convention, and the Battle for Ratification
Unit 4: The Bill of Rights
Unit 5: The Separation of Powers and Federalism
Unit 6: The Three Branches of Government
Unit 7: America’s Second Founding: Slavery, the Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
Unit 8: The 14th Amendment: Citizenship, Freedom, and Equality
Unit 9: Elections and Voting Rights: From the Founding through the Civil Rights Movement

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