Designed by Missouri teachers for Missouri teachers, these lessons are your passport to a world of free, engaging resources that will help your students explore the branches of government.

The lessons found on this website are dynamic and adaptable to your unique classroom needs. They are in versatile formats like PDFs, Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides to make customization a breeze. Just create a personal copy on your Google Drive by navigating to Files -> Make a Copy, and you’re ready to personalize your teaching experience.

Don’t miss out on this exceptional opportunity to inspire and challenge your students. Access the lessons through the links below and help your students engage with the American Government.

1 – Lesson Plan: Executive Orders

1.1 – Bell Work: Executive Orders

1.2  – Activity Sheet: Executive Orders

1.3 – Doc: Obama’s Immigration Executive Order

1.4 – Doc :2020 Trump v IRAP Case Summary

2 – Slides: Articles and Principles of the Constitution

1 – Lesson Plan: Judicial Restraint v Judicial Activism

1.1 – Bell Work: Judicial Restraint v Judicial Activism

1.2 – Doc: Judicial Restraint v Judicial Activism Handout

1 – Lesson Plan: Judicial Review

1.2 – Activity: Judicial Review

1 – Lesson Plan: 7 Roles of the President

1.1 – Slides: 7 Roles of the Presidency

2 – Lesson Plan: Powers of the President

2.1 – Doc: Powers of the President

1 – Lesson Plan: Law-Making Process

1.1 – Exit Slip: Law-Making Process

2 – Lesson Plan: Gerrymandering

1 – Key: Hail to You Chief

1.1- Student Copy: Hail to You Chief

2 – Lesson Plan: Bureaucalypse 

2.1 – Doc: Emergency Memo

2.2 – Doc: The Bureaucracy 

2.3 – Doc: Zombie Scenarios

1 – Slides: Abraham Lincoln and Habeas Corpus

2 – Slides: Historical Perspective on Commander in Chief 

3 – Slides: The Framers and the Presidency

4 – Slides: The Growth of Presidential Power

5 – Marbury v. Madison

6 – Methods of Judicial Selection

7 – Nomination and Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices

1 – Test Bank

2 – DESE Standards

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