This Module features newly developed materials intended to teach a set of basic Core Democratic Values to students in grades 3. Lessons contained in this module explain basic human rights under a democratic society, the role of government carrying out its duty, and how citizens make resolve conflict, choices, and suffer consequences. Specific Core Democratic Values covered include free speech, assembly, property, equal protection, petition the government, common good, pursuit of happiness, and majority rule, assembly. This module contains lessons that tell the story of lumbering in Michigan. Green Gold is a fictional story about a boy how stows away on a wagon headed for a lumbering camp.
Archived photographs serve as the background visuals as animated figures take action.