Branches of Government – Common Core Lessons and Activities

Common Core

by Carole Marsh

How to Use the Branches of Government - Common Core Lessons and Activities
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Click HERE to view sample pages from this book.


Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click HERE.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Branches of Government - Common Core Lessons and Activities book
Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
& More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Branches of Government - Common Core Lessons and Activities
Separation of Reading Informational Text
The Great Reading Informational Text
Federalist Comparison of Primary Sources G
Checks and Reading Informational Text
Executive Reading Informational Text GO4
Presidential Hierarchical Diagram G
Roles of the Graphical Analysis
The Big Primary Source Analysis GO3
Legislative Reading Informational Text GO4
Roles and Compare & Contrast G
Three Branches Graphic Organizer G
Representation in the Data Analysis
How a Bill Becomes a Key Steps Flowchart G
Judicial Reading Informational Text
Federal Data Analysis
Checks & Diagram Analysis G
Appointing a Primary Source Analysis
Branches of Vocabulary GO10
Levels of Graphic Organizer G
Common Core State Standards Correlations

Includes Graphic Organizer
Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download HERE.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)

24 pages, ebook

First published April 30, 2013

About the author

Carole Marsh is a children's author and the founder of Gallopade International, a children’s book publishing company headquartered in Peachtree City, GA. Marsh writes mystery fiction in addition to works of non-fiction for children. Initially she self-published under the imprint Gallopade Publishing Group, which she founded in 1979; today Gallopade International is a major small publisher based in Peachtree City, Georgia.

In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.