Day 15
Learning Targets: Students will be able to...
- Describe the different structures, powers, and functions of each house of Congress.
- Compare political principles, institutions, processes, policies, and behaviors
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Opener: Which House?
Below are a list of headlines regarding US Congress. For each of the headlines, determine whether this event would take place in the US House of Representatives or the US Senate.
- Members of Congress file charges of impeachment against the US President
- Congress is asked to confirm a new member of the US Supreme Court
- The Budget Committee proposes increasings funding for the Army and Navy
- A bill that would create a new tax on vaping products will be discussed on the floor today
- Here's what this member of Congress has said after her first two-year term in Congress.
Activity #1: Legislative Branch Mini-Lecture
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1llGAZVGhbtbCnOGvwE0We7ywZdXwLfgVi9xemHbsoF4/edit?usp=sharing
Activity #2 - Congressional Session Prep
Each of you will act as a member of Congress in an upcoming class simulation. In this simulation your goal is to pass at least one bill (created by you or your classmates) into a law. This bill may be on any topic relevant to members of Congress (see the list of committees below for bill topic ideas). For this exercise, we must remember that these laws must fit within the framework of the US Constitution.
Here is the order in which we will proceed:
- House and Senate assignments
- Selection of leadership for each house (speaker and majority leader)
- Committee assignments
- Appropriations
- Armed Services
- Budget
- Commerce and Business
- Authoring of bills by all member of congress
Close - N-50 - Committees
LD:
SD:
Examples:
Non-Examples:
Related Terms:
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Opener: Which House?
Below are a list of headlines regarding US Congress. For each of the headlines, determine whether this event would take place in the US House of Representatives or the US Senate.
- Members of Congress file charges of impeachment against the US President
- Congress is asked to confirm a new member of the US Supreme Court
- The Budget Committee proposes increasings funding for the Army and Navy
- A bill that would create a new tax on vaping products will be discussed on the floor today
- Here's what this member of Congress has said after her first two-year term in Congress.
Activity #1: Legislative Branch Mini-Lecture
Activity #2 - Congressional Session Prep
Each of you will act as a member of Congress in an upcoming class simulation. In this simulation your goal is to pass at least one bill (created by you or your classmates) into a law. This bill may be on any topic relevant to members of Congress (see the list of committees below for bill topic ideas). For this exercise, we must remember that these laws must fit within the framework of the US Constitution.
Here is the order in which we will proceed:
Here is the order in which we will proceed:
- House and Senate assignments
- Selection of leadership for each house (speaker and majority leader)
- Committee assignments
- Appropriations
- Armed Services
- Budget
- Commerce and Business
- Authoring of bills by all member of congress
Close - N-50 - Committees
LD:
SD:
Examples:Non-Examples:
Related Terms:
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