Foundations of Democracy Teacher Resources
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Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Impeachment
This video lesson from Khan Academy discusses the process of impeachment. This lesson is intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics courses, including the AP Government course.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Multiple Points of Influence Due to Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances
This video lesson from Khan Academy discusses the points of influence from the separation of powers and checks and balances. This lesson is intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics courses,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Federalist No. 51
This video lesson from Khan Academy discusses the Federalist No.51. This lesson is intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics courses, including the AP Government course.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances
This video lesson from Khan Academy discusses the separation of powers and checks and balances. This lesson is intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics courses, including the AP Government...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ratification of the Us Constitution
This resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions over the ratification of the US Constitution. These questions are intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics courses, including the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Article Vii of the Constitution
This video lesson from Khan Academy discusses the Article VII of the Constitution, the process by which the Constitution was ratified. This lesson is intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Article Vi of the Constitution
This video lesson from Khan Academy discusses Article VI of the US Constitution. This lesson is intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics courses, including the AP Government course.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Federalist No. 10
This video lesson from Khan Academy discusses the ratification of the Constitution. This lesson is intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics courses, including the AP Government course.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Founding Principles: Congress
Learn more about Congress and why it's so important for a healthy democracy. Through a study of foundational documents like the Constitution and completing a careful analysis of lawmaking (and lawmakers!) students learn why Congress is...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Federalist No. 10 (Part 2)
This video lesson from Khan Academy discusses the Federalist No. 10. This lesson is intended for students taking high school or college level American Government and Civics courses, including the AP Government course. This is Part 2 of...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: The Supreme Court: Landmark Cases: Marbury v. Madison (1803)
PBS features a summary of the landmark Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison, which deals with the principle of "judicial review." Opinion written by Chief Justice John Marshall.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Public Opinion: Voice of the People
Examine public opinion and the various means in which to collect it as well as how the government uses the opinions collected. This resource offers video, readings, web resources, and activities.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: The Rule of Law
In this lesson, students examine primary source materials including the Book of Laws, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Magna Carta in order to understand their meaning and to compare them. They then prepare an argument on...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Controlling Bureaucracies
In which we learn how bureaucracies are kept in check. In prior episodes, we discussed what bureaucracies are, and why they are formed. In this episode, we finish our discussion of bureaucracy by looking at methods that other branches of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Battle to the Death: Adding Integers
The goal of this lesson is for students to use manipulatives to add integers, creating concepts rather than memorizing rules. This lesson will be related to the 300 Spartans who battled the invading Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae,...
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Colonial Williamsburg: Politics in Colonial Virginia
This site explores the politics involved in Colonial Williamsburg, leading up to the American Revolution. Content focuses on famous speeches, documents, and influential people.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Republic
This detailed article defines the term republic, discusses the characteristics of a republican government, examines significant republican governments throughout history, and looks at different types of republican governments in the...
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Part 25: Individual Rights and the Common Good
Democracies must weigh very carefully the common good and the basic rights of the individual. [1:11]
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: New Constitutions
On today's episode, we discuss which countries have drafted new constitutions since 1991.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Frequent Recurrence to Fundamental Principles
Discussion of the paragraph of the Virginia Declaration of Rights that has arguably been the most influential. [1 min. 2 secs.]
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Constitution as Supreme Law
Overview of the history and structure of the U.S. Constitution as the "supreme law" of the land of which state and federal laws may not conflict and can only be changed by the American people.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Principles of Government
Outline of the man principles of U.S. government under the constitution.
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics:we the People:the Ideal of Self Government Spreads to the World
How have American ideas about self-government spread to the world? Find out on today's 60-Second Civics.