The lessons in this unit cover the United States Constitution. They were created by Missouri teachers for Missouri teachers to provide you with free materials to challenge and inspire your students. They are meant to be adaptable to fit your specific classroom needs.

Lessons are in PDF, Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides format. To make changes, you will first need to make a copy saved to your own Google Drive by going to Files -> Make a Copy.

You may access the lessons with the links below.

1 – Lesson Plan: Constitutional Scavenger Hunt

2 – Doc: The Constitution Hide and Seek

3 – Doc: The Constitution Hide and Seek Answers

1 – Lesson Plan: Constitutional Convention

1.1 – Slides: Creation of the Constitution

1.2 – Doc: Plans Fact Sheet

1.3 – Doc: Essay Scoring Guide

2 – Slides: Articles and Principles of the Constitution

1 – Lesson Plan: Federalism

2 – Lesson Plan: Supremacy Clause; Necessary and Proper

1 – Lesson Plan: Federalist vs Anti-Federalist 

2 – Bell Work: Federalist vs Anti-Federalist

3 – Doc: Anti-Federalists vs Federalists

4 – Doc: The Constitution – Advertisement Instructions

1 – Lesson Plan: Checks and Balances

2 – Bell Work: Checks and Balances

3 – Doc: Checks and Balances Scenarios

4 – Doc: Checks and Balances Diagram

1 – Lesson Plan: Separation of Powers

2 – Doc: Whose power is it?

3 – Doc: Power Grab Game

4 – Doc: Who gets to do what?

1 – Slides: The Creation of the Constitution.

2 – Slides: Amending the Constitution

1 – Unit 2 Test Bank

2 – Unit 2 Standards

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