Student+Activities

America's Constitution, Our Rights flat =Wednesday= The Constitution!

As a class, we will discuss what you believe the constitution is and how it represents our country.

Using the class computers access the following website to learn the history of our Constitution:[| Constitution Exploration]

Read the Preamble:

"We the People of the United States in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Divide the class into six groups: Each group should research and create a PowerPoint slide for each phrase assigned from the Preamble. The groups have 30 minutes to complete their PowerPoint. Group 1: "We the People of the United States," Group 2: "Establish Justice," & "Insure domestic Tranquility" (two slides, one for each phrase) Group 3: "Provide for the common defense," Group 4: "Promote the general Welfare" Group 5: "And Secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves" Group 6: "And our Posterity,"

The group slides should provide a graphic or symbol that represents their phrase, along with a definition that the group seems fit to explain their phrase.

Have students save their PowerPoint in a group file for the instructor to put together in a single slideshow to present to the class.



=Thursday= The Bill of Rights are the first 10 Amendments to our Nation's Constitution, Amendments are changes/additions to the constitution that establish certain rules.

Form into groups of three for the next class project, a commercial advertisement.

The instructor will assign each group a number: Group 1: First Amendment - The Freedoms Group 2: Second Amendment - Right to Bare Arms Group 3: Third Amendment - Hospitable Group 4: Fourth Amendment - Right to Privacy Group 5: Fifth Amendment - Innocent until proven guilty Group 6: Sixth Amendment - Fair right to a trial Group 7: Seventh Amendment - Civil Case Rights Group 8: Eighth Amendment - Cruel & Unusual Punishment? Group 9: Ninth Amendment - More than these rights Group 10: Tenth Amendment - States have say

Your group will have 10 minutes to research your assigned Amendment. After you are down with the research, you and your group will be given 10 minutes to work together on a 1-minute commercial script that helps explain the amendment and how it affects your life. A script needs to be printed out and approved by Me before I can give you a video camera. Your group will have the remaining 30 minutes of the activity to shoot the commercial and begin editing it. If needed, ask instructor to go film in a different location on school property. If filming is completed for your group before the end of today's lesson, upload the video(s) into the computer, open iMovie, and proceed to edit. **Make sure you save the file in our shared class folder!**




 * Don't Sweat:** You will also be given an extra 20-30 minutes tomorrow (Friday) to put the finishing touches on your video before our viewing party!

If you and your group have completed all necessary filming & editing Log on the computer and play: [|Freeville Mystery Game] [|The Constitution Game] [|Match the Constitution] [|Commercial Rubric.docx]