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Meet your Constitution Day teaching requirement with fun, engaging, and easy-to-use games and lesson plans from iCivics. View/download more information.
AIHE is a leading provider of technology-based classroom and professional development resources for History, Social Studies and Language Arts teachers. An award-winning organization, AIHE was founded in 2003 to provide teachers with classroom tools designed to increase the overall academic achievement of students.
Test your knowledge of the Constitution with the online Constitution Duel developed by the Bill of Rights Institute. You will be asked to answer 15 multiple choice questions to defend your constitutional honor. All questions will come from 4 categories; the Constitution, primary source documents, landmark Supreme Court cases, and historic people. Take the quiz as an individual or as a team - get your whole class involved and challenge another classroom to a Constitution knowledge duel!
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Free Download of Yankee Doodle, a song from An American Sampler: Selected Poems and Songs that Celebrate our Nation’s Past, Courtesy of the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
“Yankee Doodle” was a favorite song during the American Revolution. British soldiers first sang it to mock the Americans, but American soldiers soon claimed it as their own, singing it as the British retreated from Concord and Lexington. They also made up verses making fun of their own officers, including General Washington.
Free download of "What Does The Constitution Do?”
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Explore the Constitution with this easy to use, clause-by-clause guide to constitutional principles and facts.
With the format pioneered at the National Constitution Center, it is easy to turn your classroom into a town hall where constitutional issues are deliberated.
Complete biographies of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Have your students dig into the latest headlines and discover the Constitution’s relevance to what’s happening today.
Fast Facts and teach TEN key facts about the Constitution.
Discover how 200 years of constitutional history has been shaped through a collection of stories and headlines spotlighting some of the people, events and issues in American history.
Track legislation and election results, contact your representatives, and gain the civic knowledge that is the foundation of informed, active citizenship, all from this remarkable section of the Center’s website!
Printable Text of the U.S. Constitution
Download the full text of the Constitution as a PDF in English or in any of the 10 other languages available!
Read the full text of several founding documents, including the Magna Carta and Mayflower Compact among many others.
From the moment students enter the room, they will begin to examine and understand the role of the people in the Constitution.