Seamlessly Teach the Constitution in ANY Setting with Thematic Units!
This versatile digital resource is an entire thematic unit in one place! PDFs include complete teacher edition and editable student pages. Students simply type their answers in, save, and upload! Printable and projectable, this unit is perfect for seamless teaching in class, at home, or any combination!
- Flexible design works in any learning environment, ready to upload to Google Classroom or any other learning platform!
- Differentiated and supportive, with a solid mix of warmups, out-of-the-box activities, content and skills practice, graphic organizers, primary source analysis, and resources.
- Activities include: Easy Debate: What Is the Most Important Principle of the Constitution?, Document-Based Questions: Challenges of a New Nation, and Document-Based Questions: The Constitution.
- Ready to implement! No textbook, no problem. A historical context reading with bolded key vocab terms starts the unit.
- Aligned to C3 and Common Core national standards.
Table of Contents
Setting Historical Context -- Constitution Reading
Warmups
Content and Skills Practice
Amendments Card Sort
Warmups
Content and Skills Practice
- Origins of Our Foundational Ideas
- Discovering the Founding Fathers (and Mothers)
- Articles of Confederation
- Working with the Preamble
- Sorting Out the Bill of Rights
- Bill of Rights Critical Thinking Questions
- Amendments Facts and Critical Thinking Questions
- Presidential Line of Succession Facts and Activity
- Propose an Amendment
- Answer Key
- Frayer Model Chart
- SPICE: Source Evaluation and Analysis
Amendments Card Sort
- Teacher Instructions
- Playing Cards
- Teacher Instructions
- Student Activity Pages
- DBQ: Challenges of a New Nation
- Answer Key
- DBQ: The Constitution
- Answer Key
- Rubric
Middle school, high school. Reproducible. PDF download, 65 pages.