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8th grade government task cards for Microsoft Word
Constitution Circuit Review
*** EDITABLE ***Grades 5 and up: TEKS 7A Celebrate Freedom WeekGet your students up and moving with this circuit review activity. Students will move around the room to circuit cards in order to match all 27 Constitutional Amendments with their correct descriptions. EDIT this activity to change the difficulty level, scope & sequence, modify, and & make accommodations to meet your students' ability levels, appropriate grade levels, & modify/accommodate for your specials!Perfect for
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5th - 12th
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Social Studies Categorization Guide
This categorization guide reflects the ten major themes of social studies and provides students with a useful tool to guide them in interacting with content throughout your social studies course. This guide uses the P.E.R.S.I.A.N. acronym as a mnemonic combined with color coding to support strong reading and writing skills. All classroom activities can easily be used with the guide. This tool supports the higher rigor required by Common Core State Standards because it automatically challenges
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6th - 12th
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Constitutional Principles Scenarios
Constitutional Principles are fun to teach, but can be difficult for students to understand because of their abstract nature. I find spending 3 days on Constitutional Principles is really worth it because it builds a strong foundation that will allow you to reference each principle throughout the rest of the year. This product is a great first day for the Constitutional Principles because it has an easy questions for notes and an easy matching activity for students to practice what they learned.
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5th - 11th
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Keys to Unlocking the Constitution Learning Scaffold
Challenge your government students to plumb the depths of the United States Constitution! This handy student guide provides a handy scaffold they can use to consider the motivations behind, design and implications of any portion of the Constitution. Use it to guide discussion, guide students to consider a variety of perspectives of a particular aspect of the Constitution or assign students the task of "unlocking" an amendment for homework. This tool supports Common Core State Standards as stu
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6th - 12th
Types of Government Card Sort
Students sort one government with two characteristics per type. Includes direct vs. indirect democracy, autocracy, monarchy, and others.
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8th - 12th
Checks and Balances Power Grab Game
I use these cards in an interactive game to help the students better understand the checks and balances system. Prior to playing the game, print these double-sided and cut out the cards. I print them on three different colors of paper for each branch of government. Each student gets a card or two. To play the game, I explain an action taken by someone in the government that is unconstitutional. (I usually adlib these and they are always hypothetical - I never name names!) The students read their
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5th - 8th
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Types of Government: cards to cut out
Use these cards as you see them fit for your classroom. You may cut them out and assign each student to illustrate one type of government. You may assign a group of students to role play a type of government. You may create flash cards for students to study for the test or you may use them with Mix-Pair-Share activity (look up Kagan structures: Mix-Pair-Share on the internet)
Editable format ( Ms. Word)
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7th - 12th
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"I Have... You Have" Bill of Rights
A fun way to review or close your class on the topic of the Bill of Rights. These cards are designed for students to interact and figure out which amendment goes with which definition.
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4th - 8th
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