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Higher education government graphic organizer activboard activities
The Declaration of Independence: BREAK-UP LETTER Activity
The Declaration of Independence: Break-up Letter and Rewrite Activity! Good for any ELA or Social Studies classroom!
The Declaration of Independence is modernized! In this product you will get TWO different activities that will help your students better understand our nations most important document! The lesson includes an activity of a re-write- taking passages from the document and putting them in your own words. Also there is a two-worksheet activity on writing a break-up letter to King Geor
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Forms of Government Simulation
In this simulation the entire class will be able to experience every form of government. I usually open the Forms of Government unit with this simulation and my students LOVE IT! They talk about it for years. This purchase will include: -Detailed teacher instructions and explanations of every form of government.- Printer Friendly Student Simulation Chart-Answer KeyForms of Government Covered: -Anarchy-Autocracy/ Dictatorship-Absolute Monarchy-Constitutional Monarchy-Oligarchy-Representative Dem
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4th - 12th, Higher Education
How A Bill Becomes A Law - HABBAL - CLOZED notes/ graphic organizer
Understanding the process of How A Bill Becomes A Law (HABBAL) is a complicated process that is confusing to many students, especially at the federal level. This product serves as both a graphic organizer and/or clozed notes that will make this concept more clear for students. This product comes with both a 'blank' version for students and a complted version for students.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Colonial Grievances and the Declaration of Independence/Bill of Rights
Students can use this to summarize information as they identify colonial grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence and explain how those grievances were addressed in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
How a Bill Becomes a Law Flow Chart Activity - Legislative Branch (Google Comp.)
How a Bill Becomes a Law Reading and Flow Chart In this lesson, students read a handout about the process of a bill becoming a law. After reading, students are asked to create a flow chart based on the reading depicting how a bill goes through the legislative process to become a real law. This activity asks students to read, synthesize information and understand the entire lawmaking process in one easy to read flow chart. Lesson Includes:How a Bill Becomes a Law Reading PDFHow a Bill Becomes a L
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: The Legislative Branch / Congress Unit Plan (Google Compatible)
*ULTIMATE* AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AIR TEST PREP BUNDLE!! - Dominate the State Test!
4 Excellent products to create a comprehensive approach to preparing students for State Testing. Everything you need to get the 5!!1. This Google Slides presentation aligns to Ohio State Content Standards for Social Studies. It was created utilizing released questions from past American Government AIR End of Course Assessments for Ohio High Schools with emphasis placed on the most commonly occurring tested items. Every content standard ever assessed Interactive slide presentation extends well
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Constitution - Checks and Balances - Interactive Powerpoint and Worksheet
This lesson on checks and balances includes an interactive power point (8 slides total) as well as a student worksheet that helps to clearly explain the various checks and balances of the U.S. Government (CA Standard 8.2.7). What makes this power point unique is that it is specially designed with hidden links that make it a truly interactive power point and perfect for any smart board, however only a laptop and a digital projector are required. The power point consists of one title page, one hub
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
The Powers of the President | The Executive Branch | Digital Learning Activity
This objective for the President will help your students understand the ways in which the President operates. Students will get the opportunity to examine the key powers of the Presidency including both expressed and implied powers. Give your students everything they need to master this topic with this great pack of resources. Digital and Paper Copies Included!This "The Powers of the President" Distance Learning Pack includes:1) 4 pages of engaging graphic organizers that help your students s
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: The Executive Branch | Digital Learning | Activity Bundle
Roles of the President Web Activity
Most historians and politicians agree that Presidents must wear many hats and perform a variety of roles. These roles include Legislative Leader, Foreign Policy Leader, Judicial Powers, and Commander in Chief. Students will be assigned a President that served at least one full term and use a variety of classroom and internet resources to complete the attached form. Students will provide at least two examples of how their President performed each of the above mentioned roles as well as basic i
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
"Prisoners of Geography": Discussion Questions (AP Human Geography)
Tim Marshall's NY Times Bestselling "Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (2016)" is exactly the supplemental book my fellow AP Human Geography teachers and I were looking for to enrich our classes. London Evening Standard calls Prisoners of Geography, "Quite simply, one of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine." Each student has a copy of the book, and they complete around twelve higher-level thinking questions we pose to them for each of the
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Jason Reynolds' Stamped: Materials Bundle (Worksheets, Bell Ringers, and More!)
This is a fantastic book that everyone should read! This product, in addition to an EDITABLE PowerPoint presentation to accompany one section of the book (2 total in this bundle!), includes the following:WorksheetsThis product includes worksheets for every chapter of the book, divided into sections for your ease. Each section includes sections for students to make connections, check for their understanding, analyze, and discuss. Each worksheet also has answer notes. Bonus material includes an
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Congressional Committees and Support Agencies Graphic Organizer
Another graphic organizer I've created for my Civics/Govt. kids. I couldn't find an organizer which laid out the basic ideas in these two areas of Congress (Committees and major Support Agencies) so I pulled this together. After some trial and error I think I got it to where it's simple enough for my students to figure out with research in books or online, but also detailed enough to provide more than enough info. For example, the fill-in-the blank on committees comes with boxes for committee ty
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
Handout ALL REQUIRED SCOTUS Analysis Guides for AP Gov WITH KEYS
Supreme Court Case Analysis Guides for ALL required Supreme Court Cases (15) in AP U.S. Government and Politics. Includes answer keys for each case! Students will detail all the necessary facts about EACH required case. Cases Include:Required Supreme Court Cases: 1. Marbury v. Madison (1803) 2. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) 3. Schenck v. United States (1919)4. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) 5. Baker v. Carr (1961) 6. Engel v. Vitale (1962) 7. Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) 8. Tinker
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Declaration of Independence: *BUNDLE* 3 GREAT lessons for one LOW price!
The Declaration of Independence is modernized! In this product you will get THREE different activities that will help your students better understand our nations most important document! With a short introductory powerpoint to introduce the idea of The Declaration of Independence and multiple worksheets to help with language and content, it becomes the perfect partner to help you teach this lesson!
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~Worksheet on sentence analysis!
~Decoding specific parts of the document! (*TWO* work
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Political Parties - Democrats & Republican - Comparing & Analyzing Arguments
This resource allows students to examine statements and an argumentative perspective for nearly every debate between Democrats and Republicans. The assignment allows students to analyze the statements made by the political party and their ideological stance on the issue by comparing beliefs and arguments presented by both parties. The arguments are worded from a non-biased authoring perspective. Students to compare and analyze the positions presented from the Democrat and Republican platforms.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The US Constitution - Cheat Sheet
The Constitution has never been easier to teach or to learn. With the use of this one page organizer, students will find it easy to ace Constitution Assessments - including STATE TESTS!! Most questions can be readily answered through this intuitive and informative tool!! A great resource for Government and Civics teachers at all levels!!Topics:Preamble explainedArticlesAmendmentsBig IdeasKey Concepts*Color-coded for all of your visual learners.1 page front and back.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Congress - The Legislative Process (How a Bill Becomes a Law)
This is a 3 slide PowerPoint that includes a reproducible student note-taking graphic organizer, an animated presentation that details the complicated law-making process in Congress, and a slide that is hyper-linked to an excellent video from Annenberg Classroom's Civics Education website. The video is 20 minutes in length and is very informative and interesting to the students! The animated presentation also includes sound effects as the bill winds its way through Congress!
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
The Declaration of Independence Break-Up Letter (Google Compatible)
Declaration of Independence Break-Up Letter Activity The Declaration of Independence Break-Up Letter activity first tasks students with reading and analyzing the Declaration of Independence, after they have an understanding of the document students are asked to write their own “break-up letter” to King George citing reasons why the United States needed to break away from England and create their own nation. In this “Dear George” letter, students will write a three paragraph letter breaking up wi
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Foundations of Government Unit Plan (Google Compatible)
How a Bill Becomes a Law - Guided Activity
TEACH YOUR KIDS TO WRITE THEIR OWN BILLS Take your class on a journey through the legislative process in this powerful guided activity. Students will work to turn their ideas into laws as they work their way through the creation and authorship of a bill and follow it to the White House. This guided activity encourages a dive into the workings of our Legislative Branch as students learn about:government agencies and departments, the components of a piece of legislation, fundinghow a bill ultimate
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: BECOMING A LAW: Guided Instruction and Activity
Digital Media Literacy/Research: Source Evaluation Slides & Guided Notes
This product features slides with embedded videos and accompanying guided notes for students. The topic is the SIFT method, which is a much more useful and current method for evaluating the validity of online sources and news articles than the outdated CRAP Method, which is what most of us learned in school. This SIFT method content is adapted from free material provided by Mike Caulfield and the Los Angeles Valley College Library. Altogether, this is about a 40-minute lesson that should form th
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Articles of Confederation vs the Constitution
This short PowerPoint presentation and accompanying graphic organizer are designed to accompany a US History or Government lecture comparing the Constitution and the Articles of Confederation. The graphic organizer is available in both Word and PowerPoint formats in case a teacher would like to edit it. The PowerPoint is editable, as well, except that I have flattened a restricted font for better usability.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
Affirmative Action in Higher Education - Chart, Summaries, and Court Cases
This 10 page chart (and 2 page photo gallery) goes over all of the major court cases on affirmative action in higher education and top American high schools. It specifically focuses on our country's history of recognizing diversity on college campuses as a compelling government interest. It further focuses on the various admissions policies (in modern, current times) that schools and universities are using to increase their diversity, equity (within admissions processes), and integration. Thi
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Presidential Impeachments - Jigsaw
This lesson is a great, student-centered lesson plan for students to explore the five historical examples of impeachment of US Presidents. It walks students through the basic background of each impeachment and explains how each impeachment developed and the end result. By the end, students should understand not only the general facts of each impeachment case, but they should also understand how each step of the impeachment process works.This product contains both student handouts to write on, a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
*Roman Republic Simulation*
The Roman Republic Simulation is an immersive way for students to learn about the structure of Roman government during the Republic phase, discover the nuances of the Roman social classes, and participate in an election to nominate and vote for Representatives from their peers to make decisions for the class during the simulation. The elected representatives will lead the class in making decisions regarding both domestic and foreign issues during the various rounds of the simulation. At the en
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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