THE CONSTITUTION & AMENDMENTS INFO
Check out the links below for more information...it might spark some ideas for additional credit pieces in your history packets. Be sure to look at the AC suggestions/questions for this unit.
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS & PLACES
- Images and text of the Constitution - part of "The Charters of Freedom" exhibit at the National Archives
- Congress for Kids site (sponsored by the non-partisan http://www.dirksencenter.org/)
- Project Whistlestop - a site connected to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
- Project Vote Smart - How a Bill Becomes a Law overview
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
EXECUTIVE BRANCH
- The White House student site (check out the Presidential Biographies)
- White House Historical Society site
- Presidential Line of Succession @Wikipedia
- Nickelodeon's president song from the "Kids Pick the President" ad campaign--select "Presidents - all 43 presidents named chronologically" (lyrics, too)
- Animaniacs president song
- Information about the U.S. Mint's series of Presidential $1 Coins
JUDICIAL BRANCH
- The Supreme Court site
- Supreme Court Historical Society site
- United States Federal Courts site (see this for information on district and appeals courts)
ELECTORAL COLLEGE, ELECTIONS, & CITIZENSHIP 
- Information about the Electoral College and Electoral Votes
- Responsibilities of the States in the Presidential Election from the official Electoral College site
- What is the Electoral College? Take a look at copies of the official documents the electors must send to the Senate!
- The Electoral College and the 2008 Election process
- Teaching and learning resources about the College
- Political Advertisement satire from Marketplace (a show on National Public Radio)
- "Elections...the American Way" and "Inaugurations" interactive exhibits at the Library of Congress
- Information on dual citizenship (related to the Constitutional qualifications to be president)
- What is a "natural-born citizen"?
Questioning John McCain's citizenship:
- "McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out" article from the NYTimes
- "Citizen McCain's Panama Problem?" article from the Washington Post
- "Clinton, Obama Agree: McCain’s a 'Natural Born Citizen'" article at the Wall Street Journal
Questioning Barack Obama's citizenship:
- False email information about Obama's citizenship status
- "Obama born in Hawaii = not a natural born U.S. citizen?" at a Hawaiian independence site
- "The truth about Barack's birth certificate" at FightTheSmears.com
AMENDMENTS
- Repeal Day - a site commemorating the day (December 5, 1933) the 18th Amendment was repealed
- A comic strip outlining the history of alcohol in the U.S. leading up to Prohibition (the 18th Amendment)
- Excerpts on Freedom and Being American for use in making your Found Poem(s)
- Instructions for your poem
- Sample found poem