Constitution+Day

__**We the People: Honoring Constitution Day - this one minute video highlights the importance of the Constitution**__ media type="youtube" key="ejH1Xvw12sA" height="345" width="560" __**To Sign Or Not to Sign (Constitution Day Lesson Plan)**__ media type="custom" key="10268583"

You Are Part of an Experiment...It Begins Now! - Constitution Day Activity

__**Additional Resources**__ America's Founding Fathers: Delegates to the Constitutional Convention

Teaching American History: The Constitutional Convention This site provides an introduction to the Constitutional Convention, day by day summaries, major themes, and more...

American Institute of History - [|Constitution Day Activities and Resources]

Constitution Facts - [|constitutionfacts.com]

Government Printing Office -[| Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids]

National Archives Online Exhibit: America's Founding Fathers: Delegates to the Constitution (

National Constitution: Interactive Constitution (search this interactive constitution by keywords, topics, and/or supreme court cases)

TeachingHistory.org - [|Spotlight: Constitution Day]

Thinkfinity.org - [|Constitution Day]

United States Courts: [|Constitution Day]

Courts in the Classroom Constitution Day Lesson Plans

Center for Civic Education: 9/11 and the Constitution

Documentary kits for busy //but ambitious*// social studies teachers- [|Digital Docs in a Box]

__**Separation of Powers**__
 * Article I- Legislative Powers
 * __**Section 8**__ - Powers of the Congress (lay and collect taxes, to borrow money on the credit of the United States, to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with Indian Tribes...)
 * **__Section 9__** - limitations on congress
 * __**Section 10**__ - limitations on states
 * Article II- Executive Power
 * Section 2 - Powers of the President
 * Article III- Judicial Power (shortest article)
 * Section 3 - defines treason
 * Article IV- Guarantee Clause
 * Section 4 - (governs relationships among states -states had to respect one another's laws and decisions)
 * Article V - Amending Process
 * [|Article VI] - Debts
 * Article VII - Nine states for ratification

Ratification - Colonial Williamsburg's Gift to the Nation -[| "A More Perfect Union" Electronic Field Trip] (free through 30 September)



The Bill of Rights

Student Interactives Madison's Notes are Missing (The Bill of Rights Institute)

[|The Mini Page Archive] (search topics for student-friendly newspapers on many topics)

Rethinking the U.S. Constitutional Convention: A Role Play by Bob Peterson (Zinn Education Project)