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Teaching the Executive Branch

Passion for Social Studies

One topic that is always popular when teaching any government course is the presidency. The lessons include required elements for AP US Government and Politics, so they push students to analyze this branch critically. Additionally, there are lesson plans, tests, assessments, and rubrics.

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Teaching Voting in the Social Studies Classroom

Passion for Social Studies

Are your government students excited for the upcoming election? This includes detailed lesson plans, PowerPoints, URLs to videos, and all activities. Luckily, these 11 lesson plans help make that happen! This is even the perfect unit for teaching AP United States Government and Politics!

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

This week, we dug into the foundations of the United States government and explored how early laws shaped the country’s growth. EduProtocols were front and center as we kept students engaged and active in their learning: Monday: Introduced The Tier List to rank government systems and used Iron Chef with Padlet to analyze types of governments.

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Political Socialization Lesson

Passion for Social Studies

Political Socialization Lesson Unfortunately, people are often easily influenced by external factors. Thankfully, this lesson helps students analyze the U.S. government critically using their own minds! It even guides students through the history of political ideology and why they must become well-informed and engaged citizens.

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Presidents

Passion for Social Studies

There is so much fascinating information to learn when taking any government course. So, including engaging, enriching lesson plans on presidents is essential to maintain this excitement! Additionally, students will learn about the trials and tribulations of presidential succession in US History.

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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. The attacks on 9/11 affected millions of people, and informed much of the public policy in action today but for these children, that event is history. The primary source.

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President’s Day Activities for Middle School

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

As a teacher, celebrating President’s Day with your students is a great way to help them understand the role of the presidency in our government and past presidents’ impact on our country. history teacher, you can continue to use these baseball cards throughout the year to correspond with the presidents in office during each unit!