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
- Explain how the structure, powers, and functions of both houses of Congress affect the policy-making process.
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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/1Ho43wp-kh7S9ibTf3-uNuD9tOO0hCN7EsSb7voF5mHU/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 alter or add any classroom rule, policy, or procedure provided that it does not violate the Constitution. In your case, the Constitution is NKCSD district or OPHS policy. For this exercise, we must assume these policies are "supreme".
Here is the order in which we will proceed:
- House and Senate assignments
- Selection of leadership for each house (Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader)
- Committee assignments (Minimum of 3 members per committee)
- Committee on Classroom Procedures
- Committee on Rules and Consequences
- Committee on Assessments and Grading
- Committee on Projects and Group Work
- Authoring of bills by all member of congress
Close - N-50 - Committees
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Examples:
Non-Examples:
Related Terms:
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
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 alter or add any classroom rule, policy, or procedure provided that it does not violate the Constitution. In your case, the Constitution is NKCSD district or OPHS policy. For this exercise, we must assume these policies are "supreme".
Here is the order in which we will proceed:
- House and Senate assignments
- Selection of leadership for each house (Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader)
- Committee assignments (Minimum of 3 members per committee)
- Committee on Classroom Procedures
- Committee on Rules and Consequences
- Committee on Assessments and Grading
- Committee on Projects and Group Work
- Authoring of bills by all member of congress
Close - N-50 - Committees
LD:
SD:
Examples:Non-Examples:
Related Terms:
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