Great Government for Kids

Your State and Federal Government

Unit Overview, Lesson Plans, and On-Line Textbook

Internet Websites Bibliography

Quests About Your State and Federal Government

Quest 1: Your quest begins when you go to different websites and use our on-line book and other materials to learn about how our state and federal government is organized. Your teacher will assign you to a team: red, white or blue. All teams need to read some background information about how our government was formed and visit websites that will give an overview of our state and federal government. Using the information you find, your group will answer a set of questions required of all teams.

Click HERE to use our on-line book to learn about how our government was formed.

Click HERE to begin a webquest to learn about how our government was formed.
Click HERE for the activity sheets to be completed by all teams.

Quest 2: Your quest continues as each team learns more about a different branch of the state and federal government. These are the teams: red team will study about the legislative branch, the blue team will study about the judicial branch, and the white team will learn about the executive branch. As you learn about your assigned branch of government, you will gather information that you will share with your classmates. Your teacher will tell you how you will organize your information into a finished project.

Click HERE for red team activity sheet

Click HERE for blue team activity sheet.

Click HERE for white team activity sheet.