The Three Branches of Government

Focus: This webquest is ultimately designed to teach students that our government is a democracy.  There are check and balances in our government that keep it democratic.  The American citizen's right to vote will ensure that the people who are our government are the majorities choice.  This webquest is designed to be completed in two to three weeks.

 

Standards:

Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation.

 

Students:

- analyze how the values of a nation affect the guarantee of human rights and make provisions for human needs

- consider the nature and evolution of constitutional democracies

- analyze the sources of a nation's values as embodied in its constitution, statutes, and important court cases

- value the principles, ideals, and core values of the American democratic system based upon the premises of human dignity, liberty, justice, and equality

- understand that the American legal and political systems guarantee and protect the rights of citizens and assume that citizens will hold and exercise certain civic values and fulfill certain civic responsibilities

- respect the rights of others in discussion and classroom debates regardless of whether or not one agrees with their viewpoint

- explain the role that civility plays in promoting effective citizenship in preserving democracy

- participate in negotiation and compromise to resolve classroom, school, and community disagreements and problems

 

Credits:

All the external websites listed on this webquest

http://www.cccoe.net/govern/questionsforEXEC.pdf

http://www.cccoe.net/govern/questionsforJUDIC.pdf

http://www.cccoe.net/govern/questionsforLEGIS.pdf

http://www.cqpress.com/incontext/constitution/default.htm

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