3 Branches of Government PPT Lectures with Quizzes & Guided Notes

Confidently teach all about the three branches-- Congress and the legislative branch, the President and executive branch, and the Supreme Court and the judicial branch with this complete Google Slides/PowerPoint lecture kit bundle!

Each lecture comes with ready-to-go guided notes, a 50-question test bank, and slide-by-slide teacher scripts.

Scroll down to see a complete list of all the topics covered in each lecture slide deck.

If you're brand new to Civics or need to upgrade what you have, this is ready-to-go and fully loaded for you!

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This bundle guides your Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branch units. Or use it with my Three Branches of Government unit.

Each of these three branches lecture kit includes:

70-95-Slide Lecture

• Clean, modern look in Google Slides
• Extensive teacher scripts on every slide
• Embedded animations to focus attention
• "Pause and Talk" reflection & processing questions at the end of each segment

2 Differentiated Versions of Accompanying Notes

• 4-Page Guided Notes for on-level students
• 4-Page More Scaffolded Fill-in-the-Blank Notes for support students
• Print PDF and Google Doc files of both sets
• Answer Key

50-Question Test Bank

• Easily copy/paste questions to build quizzes and formative checks natively into your LMS or other platform
• Fill-in-the-blank, matching, short-answer, and open-ended questions included
• Answer key included too!

Legislative Branch Lecture Kit covers:

• Terminology: legislature, legislator, legislative
• Comparison to other nations & parliament system
• The bicameral system
• Founder's intentions with an "upper" & "lower" house
• 17th Amendment
• Senator requirements & specific powers
• House of Representative requirements & specific powers
• Political party makeup of current Congress
• Senate Leadership & Current Members:
  - President and President Pro Tempore
  - Majority & Minority Leaders
  - Your state's Senators
• Current House Leadership & Current Members:
  - Speaker of the House
  - Majority & Minority Leaders
  - Your Congressional District's Representative
• Expressed or enumerated powers
  - Pass a budget, spend money, collect taxes, trade
  - Maintain military, declare war
  - Maintain post offices, roads, citizenship, patents & copyrights
  - Maintain federal lands
  - Necessary & Proper Clause
• How a bill becomes a law
  - Submission
  - In Committee
  - Floor Debate; filibuster
  - President sign, veto

Executive Branch Lecture Kit covers:

• Founders' intentions with creating a single President
• Job qualifications & the debate over "natural-born" requirement
• 22nd Amendment & term limits
• Comparison with other countries' leader set-ups
• Official roles:
  - Head of Government -- appointments, budget, State of the Union
  - Chief Diplomat -- treaties, UN & G7 meetings, Logan Act
  - Commander in Chief -- undeclared wars & the Wars Power Act, military attacks, the nuclear football
• Unofficial roles:
  - Head of State -- State diner, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Easter Egg Roll
  - Head of Party -- campaigning for other candidates
  - World Leader -- UN Security Council member, world treaties, international policies
• Expressed Presidential powers:
  - Signing/vetoing bills
  - Granting pardons
  - Appointing federal judges
• Implied Presidential powers:
  - Executive orders
  - Executive agreements
  - Executive privilege
• Role & Duties of the Vice President
• Role and members of the Cabinet
• 25 executive departments and agencies

Judicial Branch Lecture Kit covers:

• Founders' intentions with creating an isolated judiciary
• Lifetime appointments, "in good behavior" standing
• Unofficial requirements expected of a federal judge
• Comparison with other countries' requirements for judges
• Judiciary Act of 1789
• District & Circuit courts
• Presidential appointment with Senate confirmation
• Marbury v. Madison & judicial review
• Textualist, Orginialist, & Living Constitutionalist interpretations
• Judicial restraint & judicial activism
• Supreme Court ruling "tests" to set precedents
• Majority & Minority Opinions
• Original & Appellate jurisdiction
• Overturning Supreme Court rulings, constitutional amendments
• Current members & leaning of the Supreme Court
• Landmark cases highlighted to illustrate concepts listed
  - Dred Scott v. Sanford
  - Riley v. California
  - Dobbs v. Jackson
  - Obergefell v. Hodges
  - Virginia v. Tennessee
  - Brandenburg v. Ohio
  - Schenk v. United States
  - Brown v. Board
  - Plessy v. Ferguson
  - Texas v. Johnson

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