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What is a U.S. President web sites

We have been studying the Constitution and the this week.  Here are some links to site to help understand the functions of the.

What Does the President to?  ebook

 If you Were President game

 7 Hats of the President game

Election 2012 special coverage

Tour of the White House and its history

What is the House actually describes the job of all 3 branches of government

What is Congress gives more detail about the 3 branches

One thing the Legislative Branch does make laws.  This site tells how it’s done.

What does the Judicial Branch, especially the Supreme Court, do?  Find out here. 

Here is a description of the plan for our government, The Constitution.

Ben describes for us the symbols of our nation.

There is also the birth certificate for our country, the Declaration of Independence.

Visiting these sites will help give some background for our government unit.

Public Services here vs. Nigeria

During our Economics unit we will learn to identify public goods and services.  This video compares public goods and services here (actually California) verses Nigeria, Africa.

Public goods in California and Nigeria

Opportunity Cost

Opportunity Cost is what you give up when you make a choice.  Here is a video to help explain.

What is Opportunity Cost?

Building Communities

We have been studying maps and communities of different sizes.  We are currently learning about urban, suburban, and rural communities.  Next week we will build communities starting with rural and building to urban communities.

Rural Community

Urban community

Suburban community

I think we will use this online city-building simulation game to build these communities.  You can also try them at home.

Episode 20 – Mike Flanigan

Our State representative, Tom Flanigan visited our class to talk to us about his job and how our government works in the state of Missouri.

Episode 20 Tom Flannigan Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Episode 19 – Black History Month

February is African American History Month.  We recorded this episode of our guest speaker coming in honor of this month.  Kelvin is a good friend of one of our students came in to tell us a little about his heritage.  He also answered many questions.

Episode 19 Black History Month [ 33:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Main Idea Wordle

What is the main idea of this Wordle?

President Obama’s Speech to students

President Obama addressed students on Tuesday about setting goals for their education and staying in school.  This is a Wordle word cloud of his speech.  The words that occur most often appear the largest.   Can you tell the main idea and 3 most important points in the speech?