POS 500: Interactive Learning Session for Constitution Day Project

This project presents an interactive learning session for Constitution Day, focusing on the core principles of the U.S. Constitution. It includes a PowerPoint presentation designed for an educational setting, covering topics such as checks and balances, federalism, judicial review, limited government, popular sovereignty, and separation of powers. The project incorporates two interactive activities to enhance student engagement and understanding: a short essay based on the presentation slides and an online game that focuses on the characteristics of each branch of government. The goal is to provide practical knowledge and make the learning process more enjoyable and effective. The assignment also meets the brief's requirements of creating a presentation, an essay describing the interactive activities, and allocating time to attend a school board meeting.

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Interactive Learning Session for Constitution Day

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The PowerPoint presentation describes the primary principles of the U.S Constitution
briefly and further helps in a better understanding of the constitution in the United States.
("American epic: reading the US Constitution," 2014) This essay aims at understanding the
fundamental principles of the Constitution of the U.S with some fun activities for a better
understanding of the concepts presented in the slides.
The “Constitution of the United States” is the “supreme law of the United States of
America. The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national
frame of government. Its first three articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers,
whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of
the bicameral Congress, the executive, consisting of the president and the judicial, consisting
of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. Generally, it is considered as the foundation
and the legal source for the legal authority in the United States. There are six key principles
to the U.S constitution. They are Checks and balances, federalism, judicial review, limited
government, popular sovereignty and separation of power. The six principles of the
Constitution are important because they make sure that the government will not be too
powerful and that it will not be able to take the rights away from the very easily. All of the
principles aim at these goals.”
It would give practical knowledge to the students with an interactive session, which
would enhance the knowledge about the constitution. It includes two interactive sessions. The
first “activity includes seeing the presentation slides and making a brief essay on that. It
includes a series of 14 slides that illustrate the principles on which the Constitution is based.
With additional online research, students can find current event examples of these principles
in action today and share them in a short informational essay.”

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The second activity includes playing an “online game and tries to catch the
characteristics of each branch of government established by the Constitution. Studying might
be annoying for the students but engaging themselves with certain fun games helps in the
better understanding of the concepts of the Constitution.” “Choose Branch-o-Mania from the
U.S. Government Publishing Office at https://bensguide.gpo.gov/games”
(Bensguide.gpo.gov, 2020)
In conclusion, it can be stated that not only studying helps in a better understanding of
a concept, but involvement in activities relating to the subject keeps a better note about it in
our mind forever. Therefore, these interactive learning activities would help in enhancing the
knowledge of the students in a better way.

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References
American epic: reading the US Constitution. (2014). Choice Reviews Online, 51(12), 51-
7015-51-7015.
Bensguide.gpo.gov. (2020). Games. Retrieved 3 February 2020, from
https://bensguide.gpo.gov/games