In this iCivics lesson, students explore an article-by-article overview of the structure and function of the U.S. Constitution. They learn about the duties and powers of the three branches, the amendment process, and the role of the Constitution.

Students will understand how ancient civilzations developed based on the local physical features and how the boundaries of early civilizations compare to their modern counterparts.

This inquiry kit has sources from the Library of Congress about the importance of Egyptian religion in the world history.

By completing this inquiry, students begin to understand issues revolving around the factors that help to form a people’s identity, as well as the fluidity of defining a group within any predetermined criteria.

In this lesson, students will compare and contrast excerpts from The Republic of Plato and selected Federalist Papers by James Madison to determine in what ways Madison agreed and disagreed with Plato, regarding human nature the proper role of government in a society. What influence did Plato have on James Madison and the writers of the Constitution? In what ways did they agree? In what ways did they disagree?

This article describes the the ways that ancient rome continue to impact the world today. This resources is great because it can be adusted to meet your students reading level including 6th grade

It would be bad enough to face the enemy on a battlefield, but being a prisoner of war (POW) could be far worse. During the Civil War, both sides had terrible prison camps, but one particular Georgia camp has become synonymous with inhumane treatment. Fort Sumter outside the town of Andersonville housed 30,000 prisoners in a facility designed for 10,000. Overcrowding and filthy conditions resulted in death by starvation, disease, exposure, or at the hands of other prisoners for nearly half of the POWs at Andersonville.

This is a facsimile of President Andrew Jackson's December 6, 1830 Message to Congress in 1830. In it, he called for the relocation of eastern Native American nations to land west of the Mississippi River in order to open the land for settlement by citizens of the United States. This message confirmed the removal policy already established by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

In this lesson, students learn to ask the right questions about the validity of surveys.

There's no question that students will be able to compose good survey questions by the end of this lesson.

Students will learn about the importance and impact of immigration to the building of the United States of America.

This task provides a construction of the angle bisector of an angle by reducing it to the bisection of an angle to finding the midpoint of a line segment. It is worth observing the symmetry -- for both finding midpoints and bisecting angles, the goal is to cut an object into two equal parts. The conclusion of this task is that they are, in a sense, of exactly equivalent difficulty -- bisecting a segment allows us to bisect and angle (part a) and, conversely, bisecting an angle allows us to bisect a segment (part b). In addition to seeing how these two constructions are related, the task also provides an opportunity for students to use two different triangle congruence criteria: SSS and SAS.

This task provides a construction of the angle bisector of an angle by reducing it to the bisection of an angle to finding the midpoint of a line segment.

Find out how angles and symmetry come into play in the game of pool in this video adapted from Annenberg Learner’s Learning Math: Measurement.

This video segment from NOVA: "Animal Imposters" shows the lightning-fast strike of the anglerfish.

This lesson plan was created to introduce Angles and Equations for 7th-grade math.