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Constitution:
Checks and Balances
The Balance
of Government - Our Government's Seesaw
http://www.trumanlibrary.org//whistlestop/teacher_lessons/
3branches/6.htm
Information about how our three branches of government check and
balance each other, followed by a fill-in-the-blank worksheet.
The Balance
of Government Worksheet
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/teacher_lessons/
3branches/7.htm
Printable fill-in-the-blank worksheet about how our three branches
of government check and balance each other.
Balance of
Powers
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/soc_studies/constit/1/
This worksheet is used to introduce the concept of the US system
of government as established by the Constitution. It provides an
overview of how the three branches of government work together.
Checks
and Balances
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/edis771/fall98webquests/
student/sloririce/sstart.html
WebQuest - Prepare to explain the concept
of checks and balances by playing THE POWER GAME.
Checks and
Balances in the Electoral Process
http://www.usnewsclassroom.com/resources/activities/
act001127.html
Lesson Plan and Activities - Identify examples of
the checks and balances system as seen in the American electoral
process, outline the positions maintained by both the Gore and Bush
campaigns regarding the issue of accepting the hand-counted ballots
in the Florida state election, determine what the Constitution says
about how the president and Congress are elected, and assess the
election of 2000 with respect to how it will be perceived by historians
in the future.
Explore How
the System Works-- PBS Kids Democracy Project
http://www.pbs.org/democracy/kids/mygovt/capitol2.html
How does the government affect you? Take an online tour and explore
how the checks and balances system works.
Saving the
Checks and Balances of the United States Government
http://www.woodford.k12.ky.us/webquest/lbodine/
savingchecksandbalances/introsavingchecks.htm
WebQuest - A plot to destroy our system of "checks
and balances" as described by the Constitution of the United
States has been discovered by a special investigative agency of
the government. Government officials from each of the three branches
of government have been kidnapped by an unknown terrorist group.
These officials are being held in an secret location is cyberspace.
Your team of investigative specialists have been called together
to find the missing government employees and bring them to the Chief
of Investigative Teams (your teacher). After the identities of the
persons found have been verified by the Chief, you will take your
officials and put them in their approprite place in the organization
of the three branches of government.
Separation
of Powers and Checks and Balances
http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/00-1/lesson0014.shtml
Lesson Plan and Activities - Recognize the importance
of understanding how the separate powers of the three branches of
government work together, in a checks and balances system, to form
a single unit of government.
The U.S.
Constitution Power Grab Game
http://rims.k12.ca.us/power_grab_game/
This activity will increase your knowledge of the Constitution and
it's fundamental ideas: checks and balances, separation of powers,
Bill of Rights and amendments. When finished you will be able to:
identify the three branches of American government, describe the
function of each branch of government, explain how the "checks
and balances" system functions to protect the individual citizen
from illegal power hungary politicians, describe how each branch
of government is "separate" in its powers to the other
branches of government, and explain how the amendments to the Constitution
function today.
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