Since this isn't the easiest subject to grasp, we've made it fun by incorporating a lot of games into this ToolBook. Games such as "How to prevent tyranny and the abuse of power" help teach the principles beneath the Constitution, using the Federalist Papers.
Students recreate the Constitutional Convention of 1787 with a Guys vs. girls exercise: While the guys give speeches, the girls teach the major concepts.
Examine the principles beneath the Constitution using the Federalist Papers, and discover what the founding fathers were thinking about. . .
- Tyranny of the majority
- Separation of powers
- Checks and balances
- An independent judiciary
- Enumerated power
- The rule of law
- Federalism
- Civilian control of the military
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| Part I. The Constitutional Convention, 1787 | ||
| Students recreate the Constitutional Convention of 1787. | ||
| Guys vs. Gals: While the guys give the speeches, the gals are the narrators - and explain the concepts. | ||
| Narrator #1 The Setting | ||
| Speech George Washington | ||
| Speech James Madison | ||
| Narrator #2 The Debate | s | |
| Speech Edmund Randolph | ||
| Speech William Paterson | ||
| Narrator #3 Who won - Virginia or New Jersey? | ||
| Speech Roger Sherman | ||
| Narrator #4 The Great Compromise | ||
| Narrator #5 Slavery! | ||
| Speech Charles C. Pinckney | ||
| Speech John Rutledge | ||
| Speech Luther Martin | ||
| Speech George Mason | ||
| Speech Oliver Ellsworth | ||
| Narrator #6 The 3/5ths Clause | ||
| Speech James Wilson | ||
| Speech Gouverneur Morris | ||
| Narrator #7 The Electoral College | ||
| Speech Ben Franklin | ||
| Narrator #8 Ratification | ||
| Speech Alexander Hamilton | ||
| Speech John Jay | ||
| Narrator #9 The Federalist Papers | ||
| Group Analysis | of The Federalist Papers | |
| Great Quotations | The Federalist Papers | |
| Great Quotations | The Anti-Federalists | |
| The Great Debate | ||
| Narrator #10 The Bill of Rights | ||
| Group Analysis | of the Bill of Rights | |
| Test | 51 questions | |
| Part II. Principles beneath the Constitution | ||
| Tyranny of the Majority | ||
| #1 Lecture | Tyranny of the Majority | |
| #2 Group Analysisr | Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze: Majority rule | |
| #3 Group Analysisr | Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze: Tyranny | |
| #4 Group Analysisr | Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze: Tyranny of the majority | |
| #5 Group Analysisr | Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze: Majority rule / Minority rights | |
| #6 Group Analysisr | Life is like a rock group, analyze: Majority rule | |
| #7 Group Analysisr | Life is like a rock group, analyze: Tyranny of the majority | |
| #8 Document | Federalist Paper Number 10 | |
| The Separation of Powers | ||
| #9 Graphic Organizer | The Separation of Powers | |
| #10 Group Analysisr | Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze: Separation of Powers | |
| #11 Class Discussion | The Separation of Powers | |
| #12 Graphic Organizer | The Separation of Powers | |
| #13 Game | The Separation of Powers | |
| #14 Game | The Separation of Powers | |
| Checks & Balances | ||
| #15 Document | Federalist Paper Number 51 | |
| #16 Lecture | How to prevent tyranny and the abuse of power | |
| #17 Game | Checks & Balances | |
| #18 Game | Checks & Balances | |
| An Independent Judiciary | ||
| #19 Document | Federalist Paper Number 78 | |
| #20 Lecture | What is common law? | |
| #21 Game | English law | |
| #22 Game | English law | |
| Enumerated powers | ||
| #23 Lecture | The Enumerated Powers | |
| #24 Chart | The Enumerated Powers | |
| #25 Chart | The Enumerated Powers | |
| #26 Game | Bag of Tricks | |
| #27 Game | A game for the great outdoors | |
| #28 Group Analysisr | Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze: Enumerated Powers | |
| #29 Game | The Enumerated Powers | |
| #30 Game | Enumerated or Implied? | |
| #31 Game | Enumerated or Implied? | |
| #32 Chart | Five Powers | |
| #33 Game | Five Powers | |
| The Rule of Law | ||
| #34 Lecture | The Magna Carta | |
| #35 Story | Bad King John, 1215 | |
| #36 Chart | The Magna Carta | |
| #37 Student project Making a Mobile | ||
| #38 Game | Don’t look up! | |
| #39 Political Cartoons | President Nixon and the Watergate scandal | |
| #40 Game | Seven Principles of the Magna Carta | |
| #41 Game | Seven Principles of the Magna Carta | |
| #42 Graphic Organizer | Seven Principles of the Magna Carta | |
| Federalism | ||
| #43 Graphic Organizer | Federalism | |
| #44 Group Analysisr | Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze: Federalism | |
| #45 Graphic Organizer | Dual Sovereignty | |
| #46 Group Analysisr | Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze: Dual sovereignty | |
| #47 Game | Federalism | |
| Civilian control of the military | ||
| #48 Lecture | Civilian control of the military | |
| #49 Internet | research Civilian control of the military | |
| #50 Debate | “Resolved, we should end civilian control of the military.” | |
| #51 Game | Eight Principles | |
| #52 Game | Eight Principles | |
| #53 Game | The principles beneath the Constitution (recall terms) | |
| #54 Game | The principles beneath the Constitution (define terms) | |
| #55 Game | Mars / Venus | |
| #56 Game | Honk if you hate history | |
| #57 Game | Stump the teacher | |
| #58 Game | The last man standing | |
| The Test | 151 questions | |
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