Civics & U.S. Government EDITABLE Interactive Notebook - Origins & Purposes

Do you love civics - but your students don't? This editable Civics and Government Interactive Notebook will grab your students' attention and help them learn to take notes, improving their understanding of U.S. government. At the end of the year, middle and high school students can use their completed notebooks as a study guide to prepare for the End of Course exam.

Improve Comprehension

Unit 1 covers the Origins and Purposes of Law and Government and includes all of the activities you need to support your students' reading comprehension. Students often struggle to determine what information is important in a nonfiction text. These organizers have topics and guiding questions on them, which helps students identify the main ideas and key details in their text.

Save Valuable Time

To help you save even more time, this unit also includes is a PDF that correlates the graphic organizers to both iCivics activities and the Florida Civics Standards.

Worried about prep? The included organizers are designed to save prep time. Simple cut lines mean less time you (and your students!) spend getting materials ready to go!

What's Included

• There are 30 organizers and activities, plus a complete answer key.
• Resource includes both a PDF version and an editable PowerPoint version of the unit.
• PDF that correlates the graphic organizers to both iCivics activities and the Florida Civics Standards.

This interactive notebook includes graphic organizers, activities, and an answer key on the following topics:

• Democracy
• Magna Carta
• English Bill of Rights
• The Enlightenment
• John Locke
• Baron de Montesquieu
• Colonial Governments
• French & Indian War
• Stamp Act
• Townshend Acts
• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party
• Coercive Acts
• Continental Congress
• Common Sense
• Declaration of Independence
• State Government
• Articles of Confederation
• Constitutional Convention
• Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
• Ratifying the Constitution (Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists)
• Compromise at the Convention
• U.S. Constitution
• Separation of Powers
• Amending the Constitution
• Principles of Government
• Checks & Balances
• Rule of Law
• Federalism
• Federalism Activity
• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

All text in the unit is editable, although the organizers and clipart are not. Teachers can edit the topics and questions so they better fit their informational texts.

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*Please note, this unit includes the same activities as my Origins & Purposes of Law & Government DIGITAL Interactive Notebook, but these graphic organizers are designed to be copied, cut, and pasted. Teachers may want to use both versions with students to meet different needs. 

*This resource is meant to be used with a textbook or as teacher-led notes. No texts are included. However, the included PDF does correlate free iCivics lessons to these graphic organizers.

*Although this file is written to the Florida standards, it is useful to anyone studying U.S. civics.

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Standards Covered

This file has been designed to help students study for the Florida 7th grade Civics End of Course (EOC) exam. The topics in this file cover the following standards:

• SS.7.CG.1.1 - Analyze the influences of ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and the Judeo-Christian tradition on America's constitutional republic.
• SS.7.CG.1.2 - Trace the principles underlying America's founding ideas on law and government.
• SS.7.CG.1.3 - Trace the impact that the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, English Bill of Rights and Thomas Paine's Common Sense had on colonists' views of government.
• SS.7.CG.1.4 - Analyze how Enlightenment ideas, including Montesquieu's view of separation of powers and John Locke's theories related to natural law and Locke's social contract, influenced the Founding Fathers.
• SS.7.CG.1.5 - Describe how British policies and responses to colonial concerns led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
• SS.7.CG.1.6 - Analyze the ideas and grievances set forth in the Declaration of Independence.
• SS.7.CG.1.7 - Explain how the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation led to the writing of the U.S. Constitution.
• SS.7.CG.1.8 - Explain the purpose of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.
• SS.7.CG.1.9 - Describe how the U.S. Constitution limits the powers of government through separation of powers, checks and balances, individual rights, rule of law and due process of law.
• SS.7.CG.1.10 - Compare the viewpoints of the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists regarding ratification of the U.S. Constitution and including a Bill of Rights.
• SS.7.CG.1.11 - Define the rule of law and recognize its influence on the development of legal, political and governmental systems in the United States.
• SS.7.CG.3.5 - Explain the amendment process outlined in Article V of the U.S. Constitution.
• SS.7.CG.3.11 - Analyze the effects of landmark Supreme Court decisions on law, liberty and the interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

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