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This resource from the National Constitution Center includes an introduction, big questions, recorded class sessions, briefing documents, slide decks, and worksheets about Article II of the United States Constitutuion.
In this curriculum unit, students look at the role of President as defined in the Constitution and consider the precedent-setting accomplishments of George Washington.
In this game, test your knowledge of the branches of the U.S. government!
What new things did you learn about the Branches of Government? Take this quiz to test your knowledge!
Show that you know about the three branches of government by taking this quiz!
What are some of the new things you learned about the Branches of Government? Take this quiz to test your knowledge!
This game immerses students in the workings of our three branches of government. Players take on the roles of legislator, president and Supreme Court justice to get constitutional laws enacted. Players must juggle several bills at once while holding press conferences and town hall meetings.
Do your students like running things? The new version of Branches of Power allows them to do something that no one else can: control all three branches of the U.S. government.
In Branches of Power your students will:
Pick leaders for each branch of government
Create a presidential agenda and learn about the executive branch powers
Introduce bills and pass laws out of Congress
Apply judicial review to passed laws
Prerequisite: Students need to know the function of each of the branches of government. In this activity, students examine documents from U.S. history to examples of specific "checks and balances."
This lesson allows students to analyze the Constitution and ask questions about how the Constitution talks about presidential elections.
This lesson allows students to analyze the Constitution and ask questions about how the Constitution allows for impeachment of the President.
This lesson allows students to analyze the Constitution and ask questions about how the Constitution effects the transfer of power between presidents.
This lesson allows students to analyze the Constitution and ask questions about how the Constitution relates to the institution of slavery.
This lesson allows students to analyze the Constitution and ask questions about how the Constitution lays out the President's powers.
This lesson allows students to analyze the Constitution and ask questions about how the Constitution bestows federal power to the President.
This lesson allows students to analyze the Constitution and ask questions about how the Constitution describes the President as Chief Diplomat.
This lesson allows students to analyze the Constitution and ask questions about how the Constitution allows the President to enforce the law.
This lesson allows students to analyze the Constitution and ask questions about how the Constitution lays out the President's powers.
This lesson allows students to analyze the Constitution and ask questions about how the Constitution lays out the President's powers.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer and a group of high school students discuss separation of powers among the three branches of government in connection with the pay discrimination case Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. that resulted in a 2009 law called the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.