Description
Engaging CongressEngaging Congress is a game that uses primary source documents, photographs, political cartoons, maps, and other items to explore the challenges of sustaining representative democracy in our complex and diverse nation today.
Features:
– Introductory Video
– Theme-based Stories
– Primary Source Gallery
– Primary Source Analysis
– Trivia Challenge
– Assessment Tools
– Mini-games…
…More
Engaging Congress content is divided into five thematic stories:
– More Equal Than Others (Influencing the Political Process)
– Laws and Sausages (Separation of Powers)
– Vote Early, Vote Often (Voting Rights)
– A Balancing Act (The Federal Budget)
– Fair is not Always Equal (Federalism and States’ Rights)
The accompanying Engaging Congress website (engagingcongress.org) contains many additional resources including:
– The Teacher Toolbox
– Curriculum Guide
– Correlation of content with Social Studies standards
– Bank of multiple-choice and discussion assessment questions
– Links to Library of Congress primary source analysis guides
– Downloadable PDFs and PNGs of all primary source documents
– And more.