Activity 1: Narrate the Chapter
- Narrate the chapter events aloud in your own words.
Activity 2: Study the Chapter Picture
- Study the chapter picture, 'Signing of the Constitution' by Howard Chandler Christy, and describe how it relates to the story.
Activity 3: Review the Branches of the United States Government
Constitution: Governing document of the United States.
Legislative: Makes laws, declares war, and regulates taxes and spending.
- House of Representatives: The lower (larger) legislative body of the United States Congress (varying number of members per state based on state population proportions, fixed at 435 members total).
- Senate: The upper (smaller) legislative body of the United States Congress (two members per state or 100 total).
Executive: Enforces the laws as made by congress.
- President: The head of the United States government.
- Vice President: Serves as President should the President become incapacitated or absent.
Judicial: Interprets the laws made by congress.
- Supreme Court: Highest federal court consisting of nine justices.
Activity 4: Review the State Names and Locations
- Play an online game to review the state names and locations.
- https://www.bls.gov/k12/content/games/geography-quiz/geography-quiz.htm
Activity 5: Complete Copywork, Narration, Dictation, and Mapwork
- Click the crayon above. Complete pages 68-69 of 'American History Copywork, Narration, Dictation, and Mapwork for Fourth Grade.'
Activity 6: Read the Preamble to the Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is the highest law of the United States. Read the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States.
- We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, 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.