Search Over 150,000 Teacher Reviewed Lesson Plans and 75,000 Worksheets
6,118 U.s. government Lesson Plans
Showing 71 - 80 of 6,118
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
- Rating

Students explore past U.S.-Cuban relations, by researching key events in the past century and creating a class timeline, in order to evaluate restrictions in policy on Cuba and the potential for exhibition baseball games. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
- Rating

Students participate in a game that helps them explain the three branches of US government and how they function. They explain how the "checks and balances"sytsem works to protect citizens from politicians. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th
Students understand how the content of the U.S. Government enables the U.S. Government to function. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
- Rating

Students collect and analyze news articles over a one week period that demonstrate the ways in which the American government is portrayed in the media. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
- Rating

Students identify problems associated with applying the U.S. laws and history to an international situation. They draw on legal concepts from law and events in American History to design a legal system for a hypothetical moon colony. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
- Rating

Students explore rights, responsibilities, and limitations of citizenship as guaranteed in the U.S. Bill of Rights, and examine conflict between security and justice that occurred in the treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th
- Rating

Students gain a sense of historical time and historical perspective as they study the massive campaign that the U.S. government launched to convince Americans to conserve, participate, and sacrifice. They study cencorship, and other key concepts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
- Rating

Students discuss and analyze factors affecting U.S. foreign policy toward Liberia. They role-play various groups during 1900 who were concerned with the relationship between United States and Liberia as a "colony" Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
- Rating

Students begin the lesson by comparing and contrasting two state constitution's preambles. After identifying the themes in the state preambles, they compare the U.S. Constitution's preamble to the states. They work together to write their own new preamble to the Constitution and research the amending process of the Constitution itself. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
- Rating

Students read and analyze the founding documents of the United States. They read and discuss the article "Understanding the Meanings and Purposes of Our National Documents" by Richard J. Gonzalez, complete a KWL chart, and create a timeline of historical events in the U.S. and the development of significant documents. Full Review »

