Here is one idea for Constitution Day for a high school. There is a primary-source
web site which links to hand-selected pictures, documents, maps at the national
archives, Library of Congress and other such institutions. Free to all libraries,
schools and educators, the site (which is called AwesomeStories) has about 100,000
hand-selected links positioned in-context. To help celebrate Constitution Day,
there is a new story which uses the archives and Library of Congress to cover the
Constitutional debates, the delegates' bitter disagreements, the concerns about
giving too much power to a central government and not enough rights to individual
citizens. It also includes how the Supreme Court got the power to judicially
review the Constitution. The link to the Constitution story is here:
http://www.awesomestories.com/famous_trials/marbury_madison/marbury_madison_ch1.htm
To get a free academic membership for yourself and your library/school, sign up on
the site's main URL: http://www.awesomestories.com/
Linked in the above story is a National Archives-created game (called "The
Constitution Game") which was designed by NARA to help students experience what it
might have been like to be a delegate in 1787. Here is the direct link to that
simulation: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/constitution-day/game.html
Carole Bos, J.D.
GVSU Dean's Advisory Board
>>> Madonna Roberts <Libreeder@AOL.COM> 09/03/05 3:00 AM >>>
Does anyone have ideas to share for Consitution Day for a high school?
Thanks.
Madonna Roberts, MEd, MLS
Bamberg American High School
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