Elementary (Grades K - 5) Lessons Plans
Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/k-2/index.html
The Democracy Project
http://pbskids.org/democracy/mygovt/capitol1.html
The Constitution of the United States
http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/constitution.html
Kids Stuff-Our Government
http://www.msha.gov/SOLICITOR/KIDS/kidspage.htm
Creating a Constitution
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/constit.html
ABC Directory-The Constitution
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/theme_units/social_studies/constitution/
America’s Story
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb
Scholostic PowerPoint
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/our_america/index_flash.htm
A timeline of events:
http://www.phschool.com/atschool/constitution/constitution2.html
Freedom Files
http://www.classbrain.com/artfreekid/publish/
The Constitution Game
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/constitution_day/game.html
Annotated Constitution
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/constitution/constitution.htm
The Bill of Rights
http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
Current Issues
http://library.thinkquest.org/11572/issues/index.html
The First Amendment: What's Fair in a Free Country
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=339
The Preamble to the Constitution: How Do You Make a More Perfect Union?
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=233
Picture
Books and the Bill of Rights (Word document) - Adapted from a lesson plan
submitted by Theresa Dinius, Charleston County Schools, Charleston, South
Carolina
Congress for Kids
http://congressforkids.net/ Read a short
synopsis about the writing of the Constitution and then complete the crossword
puzzle by clicking on the "show what you know" link at the bottom. Be sure to
visit the other links by visiting the section titled "play more" at the bottom
of the second page! Plenty of activities are found at this link.
http://congressforkids.net/Constitution_writingconstitution.htm
Schools
celebrate
U.S. Constitution Day
