• Go to the website http://kids.usa.gov/threebranches-of-government/index.shtml
• On a sheet of white paper make a diagram of the 3 branches of government like the one on the website. Make it fit your entire white paper.
• Include the different colors, the buildings, symbols and information.

• On a piece of line of white paper, make an illustration of the 3 branches of government.
• Use the image of a tree to make your drawing.
• Include information on the next slide.

• Go to the following website about the executive branch. Use this website to answer the questions on the next slide.
• http://congressforkids.net/Executivebranch_in dex.htm
• Write the question and your answer.
• Write neatly and in complete sentences.

• 1) Who is the leader of the executive branch?
• 2) How old does a Presidential candidate have to be?
• 3) The President make sure the laws of the land are__________________.
• 4) How many years is a President’s term of office?
• 5) How many terms can a President serve in a row?
• 6) During the State of the Union speech, the
President gives his or her opinion on what?

• 7) The President goes to other countries to meet with who?
• 8) The President is the commander in
____________.
• 9) What is the Presidential Cabinet?
• 10) What are 5 departments that are in the
President’s Cabinet?

• The federal legislative branch is called congress.
• Congress is made up of two parts, the House of Representatives and the Senate.
• Go to the following website to answer the questions on the following slides.
• http://www.congressforkids.net/Legislativebra nch_index.htm

Congress
House of Senate
Representatives

1) What is larger? The House of Representatives or the Senate?
2) The number of members of the House of
Representatives depends on _____________.
3) Today there is one representative per what?
4) Today there is a total of how many representatives?
5) You must be _______ years old to be a representative.

• 6) How many senators are elected per state?
• 7) How many senators are there in all of
America?
• 8) Senators are elected every _______ years.
• 9) What two things can the senate approve or reject?
• 10) What is a bill? Describe what must happen for a bill to become a law.

• The supreme court has 9 Justices.
• They are found in the Supreme Court Building.
• They are the highest court in the land and their rulings are final.

• http://www.congressforkids.net/Judicialbranch_supremecour t.htm
• 1) Decisions made by the Supreme Court are of
_____________ importance.
• 2) What is the motto of the Supreme Court?
• 3) The Supreme Court is responsible for _________ and
_________ the Constitution.
• 4) How are the other courts in the country affected by the
Supreme Court rulings?
• 5) How can the President be affected by the Supreme Court?

• 6) Describe who makes up the Supreme Court.
• 7) How are the Justices appointed(accepted)?
• 8) Who was the first woman Justice? When did she become one?
• 9) What is racial segregation? When was it ruled unconstitutional?
• 10) How many states required segregation in 1954?(look at the map at the top)

• Today your assignment is to create a picture that represents either the “bus boycott” or the “sit ins”.
• You are to draw a picture and include words to describe what is happening.
• Video for information found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJOVrUPGCE