KTIP Pilot Project Lesson Plan Format

 

 

Name: Amanda Carrico  Date: April 18, 2007  Age/Grade Level: High School

 

# of Students: 0  # of IEP Students:  0  # of GSSP Students:  0  # of LEP Students:  0

 

Subject:  Social Studies   Major Content:  Government Lesson Length:  1 week

 

Unit Title: The United States Government Lesson Number and Title:  Lesson 12; Checks and Balances/Branches of Government

 

Context

  • This topic is essential for understanding the foundation of the Unites States Government.
  • Previously we have learned about the founding fathers, the constitution and the bill of rights.

Objectives

  • Students will be able to identify the 3 branches of government and explain how power is separated and what the checks and balances are.

 

Connections

SS-H-GC-U-2

  • Students will understand that the Government of the United States, established by the Constitution, embodies the purposes, values and principles (e.g., liberty, justice, individual human dignity, the rules of law) of American representative democracy.

SS-HS-1.2.2

·    Students will interpret the principles of limited government (e.g., rule of law, federalism, checks and balances, majority rule, protection of minority rights, separation of powers) and evaluate how these principles protect individual rights and promote the "common good.”

 

 

Resources, media, and technology

  • Computers and internet access.
  • Microsoft word for assessment
  • Projects to show video
  • Web sites that were used are as follows:

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sst/sst52.txt   

http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_cnb.html

http://www2.semo.edu/vending/PS103/us%20checks%20and%20balances.jpg

http://www.theodoresworld.net/pcfreezone/wethepeople8.jpg

http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Images/ChksBalnces.gif

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/themes/government/check_header.gif

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/9/9d/300px-Senate_in_session.jpg

http://www.arikah.net/commons/en/thumb/9/9e/100px-USPresidentialSeal.jpg

http://www.arikah.net/commons/en/thumb/3/31/100px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.png

http://www.arikah.net/commons/en/thumb/3/31/100px-Seal_of_the_United_States_Supreme_Court.png

http://www.va.gov/oca/images/house_seal.jpg

 

 

Procedures

·        Monday, Day 1: Introduce the Separation of powers in the United States Government. Watch Brain POP: Branches of Government.

 

·        Tuesday, Day 2: Discuss how the constitution lays out the braches of government. Hand out Letters to the Writers of the Constitution Rubric.

 

·        Wednesday, Day 3: Watch my movie on the checks and balances on the 3 branches of government. Create diagram of checks and balances.

 

·        Thursday, Day 4: Watch Brain POP: Presidential Power and Supreme Court. 

 

·        Friday, Day 5: Collect and share: Letters to the Writers of the Constitution.

 

Assessment Plan

·        The students will be expected to draw a diagram of the different braches of government and the checks and balances.

·        The students will also be given an assignment called Letters to the Writers of the Constitution. In this assignment students will be writing a letter to the men who wrote our constitution. In it they will express knowledge of the constitution and how it sets up our government. They will be expected to make a few suggestions and how THEY think that the constitution and in turn our government could be different. View Rubric.