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Online Bill of Rights review with legal opinion on the bill of rights

Need a quick discussion starter? Use these online quizzes and games to get your class to start talking about what the constitution means then and now.

"What does the light bulb have to do with the U. S. Constitution? Or the board game "Monopoly"? How about the letter you wrote to the president when you were in elementary school? The answer to all three questions is: plenty-if you know your Constitution. The education team of the National Archives and Records Administration is pleased to present, for the first time, a self-service online version of our popular U. S. Constitution Workshop! This activity is: * Suitable for grades 4 through 12 * Fully self-contained, requiring little advance prep time * Correlated to the National History Standards and the National Standards for Civics and Government. We hope that you and your students will enjoy this unique opportunity to learn, through analysis of primary source documents, about the content, impact, and perpetual relevance of the U. S. Constitution to the daily lives of American citizens. "

Have an AP class that needs help with DBQ primary source documents? Do you want to introduce primary source documents to your class? Use the Constitution Day Workshop by the National Archives as a resource. The class will spend an hour analyzing primary source documents from the National Archives and relate them to the constitution. Many different references ranging from war orders of sent by Lincoln to Grant to Albert Einstein's immigration papers. You can print up copies of the information or view them online in the computer lab or project them for use as a class.

great site to test your knowledge!!!

From the National Constitution Museum, an all day webcast is available. This year's video is called "Constitution Hall Pass: Freedom of Expression". After viewing the video, your class can ask the museum education staff questions about the constitution. Last year Sandra Day O'Connor answered students questions and this year the Museum promises similar famous visitors to sit in on their broadcast.

To use the Constitution as a basis of teaching math lessons. I was especially interested in the last activity on the webpage. I didn't know that President Garfield was a mathematician.

A really fun game that helps you learn some history!!!

Sounds juvenile but the questions are on the high school level.