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Lesson 2: The Debate in Congress on the Sedition Act

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Pupils research and discuss the provisions in the Constitution that supported the arguments for and against the Sedition Act. They articulate objections to and arguments in favor of the Sedition Act.
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The Federalist Debates: Balancing Power Between State and Federal Governments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explain the basic positions of the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. They chart the differences and similarities between state and federal governments. They write a persuasive essay in response to an open-ended question.
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Journalism

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Whether you are teaching a newspaper unit in language arts, covering the First Amendment and censorship in social studies, or focusing on writing ethics in journalism, a unit based on the foundations of journalism would be an excellent...
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Civil War Sites and Battlefields in Arkansas

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Modern day and historic images grace an informative presentation. Learners can review multiple battles and effects of the Civil War on the state of Arkansas. Major sites and battle fields are shown as they looked in the past and as they...
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The U. S. Constitution (5)

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive American history worksheet, students answer 17 fill in the blank questions regarding the U. S. Constitution. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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President's Day Scramble

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this President's Day worksheet, students review presidential history as they read a sentence about each president and unscramble words in each of the sentences.
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Freedom of Information Day

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Freedom of Information Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking questions,...
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Matching Events and People

For Students 5th - 12th
In this social studies events worksheet, students match important events in history with people that were involved at the time. Students complete 13 matches.
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Why a President? Why not a King?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners research how and why a country elects to have an executive branch of the government. They study the office of the Presidency of the US.
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19C American Presidents

For Students 6th - 7th
In this American Presidents worksheet, students match the names of 25 Presidents with a phrase that tells something about them. This page begins with number 46 and ends with number 65.
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19c American Presidents

For Students 8th - 11th
In this American Presidents review instructional activity, students match the 21 former Presidents listed to the appropriate descriptions.
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American Presidents

For Students 5th - 11th
In this American presidents worksheet, students match the descriptions of 25 presidents to the appropriate listed presidents' names.
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Government: The Power of Persuasion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are able to define and identify a type of interest group. They are able to describe some strategies used by interest group. Students are able to identify the postive and negative aspects of interest groups.
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Reading Worksheet One

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this reading instructional activity, students cross out the word that does not belong in a group, then add a word that does belong. There are 12 groups of words total.
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Virginia's Historical Figures

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders write full paragraphs about important historical figures from Virginia's history. They research an the historical figure before word processing three complete paragraphs using facts and appropriate clipart. They compare...
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The U.S. Presidents

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners identify the Presidents of the U.S. by their physical characteristics and their impact on America. In this Presidents lesson plan, students read about each President, look at their pictures, and identify each of them based on...
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Real Life Rights

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider modern applications to the Bill Of Rights (how does Ammendment 4 apply to locker searches?) students prepare and role play a mock trial to explore the finer points of the relevance ot the Bill of Rights in the 21st...
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The Glorious Revolution, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students relate the Glorious Revolution, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution through web based research and scenarios.
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The Bill of Rights

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students practice their reading comprehension skills by reading about the Bill of Rights. They answer questions after reading to test their comprehension.
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The Story Of American Freedom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the concept of American freedom with the use of primary sources of images in order to derive meaning. The images are used to inspire research and writing about historical scenes. The writing and analysis of the...
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Weather And The Seasons

For Teachers K
Students illustrate characteristics of the different seasons using digital and pen and paper drawings. They creat captions for their drawings and present them to the class. Students compare and contrast their pen and paper drawing...
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Worksheet #49 - Constitution

For Students 8th - 9th
For this historical quiz worksheet, students test their knowledge on multiple historical references about the Constitution as they answer the ten fill in the blank questions.
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Worksheet #50 Questions - Amendments

For Students 8th - 9th
In this historical quiz worksheet, students test their knowledge on multiple historical references that relate to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Students answer ten fill in the blank questions.
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Get To Know The Constitution

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils search the Constitution for specific information. In this Constitution lesson plan, students read the Constitution and search for the branches of government, specific Amendments, and more, in groups.

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