Lesson Information

Lessons include: Instructors:

Five PowerPoint Presentation accompanied with activities, stories, worksheets, and handouts

Volunteer teachers who have received extensive training on the Constitution and on teaching techniques will come into the classrooms to teach the lessons.

Lesson Time: 1 hour for each of 5 lessons Lesson Scheduling: CitC leadership will schedule with administrators the
days preferred by each school. Lessons can be taught one day a week for five weeks or two days a week for two and a half weeks. The days and times will be set that best fits availability of volunteer teachers and the school schedule.

Lesson Grade Levels:

Constitution Kids: 3rd 5th Grades Constitution Defenders: 6th 8th Grades Constitution Scholars: 9th 12th Grades (currently being prepared)

Lesson Summaries:
Lesson 1: Technology Leap; Discovering Five Advantages of Free Enterprise. An Amazing technology leap followed the adoption of the Constitution which initiated capitalism in the new United States. Lesson 2: Power Struggle Rulers Law/ Anarchy/ Peoples Law. The Founders wisely provided for rule by the people with a republic. Presenting the unquestioned truth that the Constitution provided greater individual freedom than any other government of the world. Lesson 3: Founding Fathers and Declaration of Independence. Wise, true principles that were enumerated by the Founders in the Declaration of Independence are taught. Lesson 4: Preamble and Article I. The purposes and proper roles of government as defined in the original Constitution are presented. Lesson 5: Articles II and III, Bill of Rights and a Sampling of Amendments. Emphasis is given to the truth that rights reside first in the people and that laws are designed to limit government infringement.