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Internet Lessons and Podcasts Up-to-Date Election Coverage With Lessons and Interactive Election Map Law Focused Education, Inc. - Sample Government Lessons include Comparing Absolutism to Democracy Separation of Powers - Can They Do That? National Council on Economic Education - A source of classroom tested, internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students. Sample lessons include: Show Me the Money! The Unforeseen Cost of Car and House Loans An Economic Mystery: What Happened to Railroads? From the Jim Lehrer News Hour: A lesson putting together the economy and the election 2008 The Big Picture: The Economic Security in the Country and in Your Community
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EDSITEment - The National Endowment for the Humanities has incredible lessons filled with primary source documents and activites - click here The following lessons are sample of what EDSITEment has to offer: Congressional Committees and the Legislative Process - Learn how committees influence the legislative agenda and why your representatives’ committee assignments matter to you. The First American Party System: Events, Issues, and Positions - Curriculum Unit overview. Fear of factionalism and political parties was deeply rooted in Anglo-American political culture before the American Revolution. Leaders such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson hoped their new government, founded on the Constitution, would be motivated instead by a common intent, a unity. But political parties did form in the United States, with their beginnings in Washington's cabinet. James Madison: From Father of the Constitution to President - Curriculum Unit overview. Even in its first 30 years of existence, the U.S. Constitution had to prove its durability and flexibility in a variety of disputes. More often than not, James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution," took part in the discussion. Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution - Magna Carta served to lay the foundation for the evolution of parliamentary government and subsequent declarations of rights in Great Britain and the United States. In attempting to establish checks on the king's powers, this document asserted the right of "due process" of law.
Government Lessons based on Jim Lehrer Daily Newscast National Council for Economic Education k-12 from one minute lessons to units Characteristics of Different types of Governments by Tera Roberts, Eastern Hills High School
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