I think that this is most important unit because it applies to
our kids and they need to know these amendments. This is not
something that stop for them this is part of their rest of their
lives. I came up with some
ideas.http://www.congressforkids.net/games/billofrights/2_billofri
ghts.htm
Fun interactive -
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/sst/sst214.txt
To create a new set of bill of rights for a new country -
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/bill_of_rights/media/fin
alact.htm
Putting the correct amendment into situation and choosing the
most important amendment and why -
(different version)- If alien visited America ask you to rate
the bill of rights what order would you rate
Individual ( 1-10 1 being the top one) – then group-decide on the
top 3 and why
lesson plan with - jigsaw, writing , mock trial -
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/bill_of_rights/media/fin
alact.htm

I use some of these ideas but I also have an assignment that my
students must do which is write a paragraph what does the bill of
rights mean and why is it important - then they have to give
example of the first 10 amendments and then find an newspaper
artcile and summarize then tell me what amendment it applies to
and how does it.

On 10/27/09, Karla wrote:
> Thank you to all the people who have responded so far. You
> all had wonderful ideas that I will use.
>
> On 10/25/09, Karla wrote:
>> I'm a second year teacher. Last year, I used the textbook
>> to teach the Constitution unit because I was hired just a
>> week before that. I didn't like using the textbook, and
>> would like to try a more hands on approach this year.
>> I'll be starting the unit about a month from now.
>>
>> I have a general idea about wanting to have the class
>> involved in creating / writing the constitution. Has
>> anyone done a project like this? Do you have any
>> suggestions?

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