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I Civics: Three Branches Unit PlanI Civics: Three Branches Unit Plan
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iCivics
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3rd - 8th
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Unit Plan

I Civics: Three Branches

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A web quest looking at how a law gets passed as it moves through the three branches of the United States government: executive, legislative, and judicial. Each page has a question to answer, and a link to a site with information specific to that topic.

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Concepts

checks and balances

Additional Tags

three branches, three branches of government, gov.rs.19, u.s. government, how laws pass, icivics: three branches

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.3 RH.6-8.4

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