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Congress Link: Lesson Plans Lesson PlanCongress Link: Lesson Plans Lesson Plan
Publisher
The Dirksen Congressional Center
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Grade
9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Lesson Plans
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Lexile Measures
1270L
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Congress Link: Lesson Plans

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The Dirksen Congressional Center provides abundant lesson plans on all aspects of the US Congress and the US Constitution. All lessons contain time frames, objectives, and links to material, and are built around Bloom's taxonomy.

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Concepts

checks and balances, political parties, representative government, congress

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Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RH.6-8.4 RH.11-12.4 RH.11-12.6 RH.11-12.8

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