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The United States Presidency - The Powers of the Presidency
$5.00Included in this packet are two activities that require students to read and complete a graphic organizer which explains each of the many roles of the president. Lastly, students will be able to apply these roles by completing short paragraph responses...$5.00 -
Capitalism vs. Communism Simulation Game
$5.00Product Description A fun activity for students, designed to make several points about how communist and capitalist systems work differently. Students will enjoy the process of learning the essential differences between the way that communism and...$5.00 -
Notorious Presidential Pardons - The Executive Action (student activity)
$6.00As granted by the Constitution (Article II, Section 2, Clause 1), Presidents have the power to grant clemency in one or more of the following ways: the ability to grant a full pardon, to commute a sentence, or to rescind a fine. Along with that power,...$6.00 -
Interactive Vocabulary Game
$3.00Note to Teachers: Finding ways to teach and allow students to understand and retain key vocabulary is a difficult task. Over the years we all have found various ways to implement new strategies that require students to apply vocabulary terms. This...$3.00 -
Interest Group (3 student centered activities)
$5.80In this student-centered packet students work together to complete THREE activities about Interest Groups. Activity One allows them to assess who benefits and who is negatively affected by a piece of legislation. Activity Two addresses how an...$5.80 -
Updating the Declaration of Independence
$4.00This activity provides students with an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence. Students are asked to interpret the paragraphs in today’s style and language. By doing so, they can...$4.00 -
How Much Federal Gov't Control Should There Be? Community Survey Project
$5.00This 3 class period activity provides students with an opportunity to gain further insight into how people in their own community feel about federalism today. Students work to conduct surveys and then present their findings. Teacher...$5.00 -
Economics | Free Enterprise System | Student Simulation, Video & Activities
$3.25This 34 page download contains MULTIPLE activities for the Economic topic, FREE ENTERPRISE. You can use all the activities or choose to do the ones that fit your curriculum. Activities included: 1) Full color reading and comprehension questions...$3.25 -
U.S. Government | 7 Videos and Corresponding Student Worksheets | Distance Learning
$2.99**Also includes a Google version for Distance Learning! Please make sure any resources placed online are password protected (no public access) thanks! In this packet you will receive links to 7 (approximately 25 minutes each) U.S. Government videos and...$2.99 -
Veto this! Executive Power
$4.00Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), America’s 22nd president vetoed 414 bills, more than twice the total vetoed by all previous presidents. President Grover Cleveland - The Veto President The reason for the onslaught of vetoes was that Congress,...$4.00 -
Gov.Federalism - Congressional Expressed Powers (An Unusual Reading Exercise)
$5.00Face it, reading about the expressed powers of the United States government isn't the most exciting thing for most students. In this activity, students are asked to read, interpret and textual information by locating specific text from the book that...$5.00 -
5 Landmark Supreme Court Case Debates
$6.00Included in this packet are 5 landmark Supreme Court cases that contain a brief background of the case itself and a set of arguments presented by both sides, a Debate Format Instruction Sheet for your classes to participate in 1:1 debates as well as a...$6.00