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Higher education government homework
Bill of Rights Scenarios
This is a great activity for a unit on the Bill of Rights and/or the U.S. Constitution. In this activity/ assignments students are assigned to read 12 different scenarios. After reading each scenario they are to figure out if the individual in the scenario had their Constitutional rights violated or not. All scenarios deal with the first 10 amendments. This product comes complete with an answer key. This product WILL generate interesting debate and in-class discussion. Product could also
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Government: Interest Group Simulation
This simulation is one of my favorite activities to run in class. In short, special interest groups will be lobbying politicians for their support in changing legislation. You may, if you would like, make this a competition between the interest groups to see which interest group can garner the most amount of support from the Congressional representatives. The handout includes a student overview, specific instructions for the politicians and for the interest groups, the Politician's handout, 1
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Public Opinion Poll Analysis
This activity is designed for AP Government and Politics students to work in groups to determine the validity or public opinion polls. Students are presented FIVE real-world public opinion polls.
While all of the polls cover different topics and were executed with different methodologies, all of them are misleading. Students work to determine problems and flaws with the questions and the data as presented by the polls. This is a great introductory lesson or homework assignment to begin the uni
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Legislative Branch Activity - Leadership in Congress & Committees
This assignment is a matching and cloze activity in which students match roles and titles of leaders in Congress. They also match the fuctions and roles of committees in Congress.
This would be a good assignment to use for review or reteach aspects of the Legislative Branch.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Crash Course Government COMPLETE SERIES BUNDLE ~ 50 Episode Guides
Episode Guides for the Crash Course Government & Politics YouTube Series!Each guide comes with two versions (with and without timestamps), and a complete answer key.This product easy to use, no-prep product is a perfect last minute lesson plan, review activity, extra "filler" to keep on hand, substitute lesson plan, or homework assignment.*Great for AP test prep!Plus it's only $0.75 per episode!-Answer key included for every episode guide-Questions are a variety of formats and vary within ea
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Understanding Presidential Primaries
This is a three-page activity for older students that involves identifying states with open, closed, or hybrid primaries, states with primaries and states with caucuses, and how states award delegates. The primary process is confusing, and this activity is designed to help students learn about the different moving parts that lead to party candidate nomination.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Fiscal and Monetary Policy - Real World Examples (answer key included)
It is important to learn about real-world examples of fiscal and monetary policy because it helps us understand how these policies are implemented in practice and the impact they can have on the economy. By studying real-world examples, we can see how governments and central banks use fiscal and monetary policy tools to address economic challenges and achieve their policy goals. Also, learning about real-world examples of fiscal and monetary policy is important for informed decision-making. As
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Primary Source American History - Expanded 4th Edition (2019-20)
Primary Source American History a workbook in the form of a toolbox of teacher assignments. The main idea behind it is to create a large number of primary source readings – more than 90 in total – that can be assigned to U.S. History students in high school or as part of a university core survey course on U.S. History. But this workbook contains a variety of teacher resources, including:97 primary source reading assignments,Eight research and documentation projects (five papers, a PowerPoint pre
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
20 Landmark US Supreme Court Cases Info Chart
Whether you teach an accelerated class or a basic American Government course this chart will help your students understand landmark Supreme Court Cases. This chart includes 20 cases including the 14 required court cases for the 2023 AP Gov exam. (College Board removed Roe v Wade for the 2023 exam pending review because of the Dobbs decision.) Students will research: *the topic or amendment in question in each case. *the final vote and ruling of the court. *and the description of the case.An answ
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: 20 Landmark US Supreme Court Cases Bundle: Google Slides & Info Chart
History & Memory Videos & Questions - from Choices Program (Brown University)
The purpose of this series of videos and questions is for students to better understand the significance and difference between history & memory. The following videos are from History in Dispute: Charlottesville and Confederate Monuments - Choices Program. This was used for a unit on Reconstruction and the "Lost Cause" myth.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Defining Institutionalization: White Supremacy before, during and after Recon
For students to better understand the impacts of white supremacy during and after Reconstruction, they need to better understand what insitutions are in a sociological sense and then apply that to the history
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Roles and Powers of the President Scenarios
Learning about the executive branch? President? This is a great resource to review the roles and powers of the president after lecture. It can easily be made as a whole class or group discussion. And even a homework assignment!
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Create a Law Project worksheet - Legislation, Legislative Branch, Congress
Students create their own law and write a one page paper addressing 5 components of their law as well as crate a visual to go along with it.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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AP Government & Politics Unit 5 Review Packet
Utilize this review packet as a way for students to have one document they can complete as a study resource and also be able to refer back to when reviewing Unit 5 content for AP Government and Politics.My Version of Key Included.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
Freedom of Speech Comic Strip Assignment
The assignment is for students to create their own cartoon with several pictures. The purpose is to relate the specific court cases mentioned, as well as what the 1st amendment states specifically, in order to form a creative comic strip.
Included in this handout are several court cases that pertained to freedom of expression.
There is also an article from the Los Angeles Times that highlights the issue of students protests on and off campus. This article is accompanied by an insightful Ques
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AP Government & Politics Unit 4 Review Packet
Utilize this review packet as a way for students to have one document they can complete as a study resource and also be able to refer back to when reviewing Unit 4 content for AP Government and Politics.My Version of Key included.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
Death of Stalin: video questions, differentiated
Comprehensive, thorough, 16-minute documentary really drills down into the events. His death, could he have been saved? Burial, mourning. No successor. Beria, Malenkov, and Khrushchev are candidates. Beria releases 1.3 million prisoners. Yugoslavia and East Germany considered. Beria arrested and executed in December. Malenkov and Khrushchev’s approaches contrasted: relaxation of total state control, light industry and consumer goods, reducing tax; the Virgin Lands campaign. Molotov attacks both
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Handout: Examples of Jim Crow Laws AFTER Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
This is a worksheet/handout for students to read through examples of Jim Crow Laws AFTER Plessy v. Ferguson and PRIOR to Brown v. Board of Education. Students are tasked with annotating (highlight/underline & write IN THE MARGINS), evidence of multigenerational trauma that will be caused by these laws (consider what do the laws prevent/make harder for the future) AND to identify at the end of these sets of law, how these laws DIFFER from those that came BEFORE the Plessy decision. In order
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Democrat v Republican: Who would say what? Quiz worksheet - Political Parties
WS or Quiz that lists statements like "If you have a problem, fix it yourself" and "Everybody deserves a helping hand when they are down" and asks students to idetnify if typically a Democrat or Republican would say each statement.
Includes states on many important issues in the US today.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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1919 Red Scare video worksheets, differentated
Comprehensive, thorough, 22-minute documentary clearly explains the Red Scare, covering: anti-Bolshevism in 1919, IWW, Socialist Party, Anarchists. The Russian Revolution. AFL, strikes. The end of the Progressive Era. WW1 and labor relations, unemployment. Seattle shipyard strikes, mayor Ole Hanson orders “shoot on sight”. April bombings. Violence in Cleveland. Socialist meetings attacked. June bombings, the Galleanists, the Lusk Committee. Race riots and NAACP confounded with Bolshevism. Commun
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Crash Course Government #1-25 BUNDLE
Distance Learning - #DistanceLearningEpisode Guides for the Crash Course Government & Politics YouTube Series!Each guide comes with two versions (with and without timestamps), and a complete answer key.This product easy to use, no-prep product is a perfect last minute lesson plan, review activity, extra "filler" to keep on hand, substitute lesson plan, or homework assignment.*Great for AP test prep!Plus it's only $0.80 per episode!-Answer key included for every episode guide-Questions are a
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Civics and Economics - Vocabulary - Crossword Puzzle - Bundle
This Bundle contains 28 different Crossword PuzzleThese cover everything you need for the entire class of Civics and EconomicsThis is great for introducing or reviewing key vocabularyThis also includes Answer Keys
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Federalist Papers COMPLETE for AP Civics/Government and Civics/Government
I was a corporate side trial lawyer for over 35 years, mostly in CA, and some time in New Mexico. I also had cases over the years that involved constitutional issues, while a lawyer. After those 35 years, I took advantage of the Alternative Teachers' License program in New Mexico, was a top level student in the classes, and secured my teachers' license in Social Studies and added a Language Arts endorsement. For three years, I taught history courses, including AP US History, US History, AP Civi
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: US Constitution, Federalist Papers, and Reconstruction Amendments
TED Talk: The Problem with the U.S. Bail System- Camilo Ramirez
In this eye-opening assignment, students will explore the complex and often unjust world of the U.S. bail system through a compelling TED Talk. They will discover how the bail system, designed to uphold the presumption of innocence, has strayed from its intended purpose and instead perpetuates inequalities, particularly affecting low-income and minority communities.Through the TED Talk, students will learn about the origins of the bail system and how it has evolved into a mechanism that often pr
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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