Dear Teachers and Parents
The following list of ideas was prepared to aid you in celebrating Constitution Week with your student or child. Please email us and let us know how it worked out for you, and to add your ideas to the list for next year. The Clinch Bend Chapter DAR, would love to see the work of your students, and to reward them with Participation Certificates. Please contact us at clinchbend@gmail.com
Computer teachers- students can do a Constitution Web Quest or Website Design Contest.
Keyboarding teachers- have a timed typing contest using the Preamble to the Constitution.
Art teachers- students can do posters for Constitution Week, but “Think Outside the Box”, do not limit yourselves to Colonial Era art.
English teachers- Students can perform skit reciting the Constitution as if for the first time, and debating key points.
History teachers- Constitution Facts game or short essay on a little known fact behind the creation of the Constitution.
Technology- how was the Constitution shared with the public without electronic technology? What technology was used?
Political Science- what were the basic centers of thought on what the Constitution should say- why did we need a centralized government? What should the people depend on the centralized government to do? Should it be able to tax the population?
Central Office- have a Constitution interesting fact read each morning over the intercom by a local official, the police, firefighters, ministers, of your community.
Debate Team- students take sides and debate the wording and need for a Constitution.
Future Teachers of America- create a plan and decorate a bulletin board at one of the elementary schools.
Future Businesses Leaders of America- What was the economy of the colonies after the American Revolution? How did the Colonial economy influence the wording of the Constitution?
Math- do the math, describe the population of the newly formed United States of America using demographic data to create charts.