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Elementary Model Congress Research (2024-25)

This is the page listing the reading and viewing assigned to students are part of the learning process. We are always learning two sets of things each week, which is the class content (on pages like this) and also the research (on the weekly research pages). 

Model Congress Slides (Wk-01)
Model Congress Slides (Wk-02)
Model Congress Slides (Wk-03)

HMDC MODEL CONGRESS COURSE (Fall 2024):

[Understanding the US Government (Week 8)]
Here is a link to Download the videos [NA!]
 
Why Two Parties Dominate American Politics | America 101,
ABC News, September 21, 2016 [2 min]
 
[Optional] History Two-Party Democratic-Republican System Explained,
Illustrate to Educate, August 25, 2022 [6 min]

What Is the Legislative Branch of the U.S. Government?,
History Channel, January 29, 2018 [4+ min]

AP Government (4.3): Congressional Committees,
Carey LaManna, AP Teacher, October 14, 2015 (9 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTaczK-tvzs
Note: This video is not ‘friendly’ for younger students (please try to understand). tyvm!
 
[Understanding the US Government (Week 7)]
Here is a link to Download the videos [NA!]
None for this week.
 
[Understanding the US Government (Week 6)]
Here is a link to Download the videos [NA!]
None for this week.
 
[Understanding the US Government (Week 5)]
Here is a link to Download the videos [WeTransfer]
 
Western Albemarle High School (WAHS) Students Hold Model Congress,
Albemarle County Public Schools (News), March 21, 2023 [ 5 min]
 

[Optional] Model Congress: Western Albemarle High School (WAHS),
Trevor Przyuski, Teacher, Student Government, April 24, 2013 [10 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wn71h_539E
Note: This video goes a little more in-depth than the shorter video (very interesting).

How to Write A Bill,
YMCA (Washington DC), March 5, 2012 [6 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov0uLUP0tAs

[Understanding the US Government (Week 4)]
Here is a link to Download the videos [NA!]
None for this week.
 
[Understanding the US Government (Week 3)]
Here is a link to Download the videos [WeTransfer]

Robert’s Rules of Order,

Henry Martyn Robert, 1876
[Video Link = Later!] = postponed to week 4!

[Understanding the US Government (Week 2)]
Here is a link to Download the videos [WeTransfer]
 

Preamble of The Constitution (Schoolhouse Rock),
US Chronicle, September 30, 2012 [3 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqvLi7qZ_yU
Note: These videos were actually made in the 1970s!

First Amendment Explained,
Duke University, May 25, 2021 [3 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YM4QorREGE

3-minute Guide to the Bill of Rights,
TED-Ed, October 30, 2012 [3+ min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYEfLm5dLMQ

[Understanding the US Government (Week 1)]
Here is a link to Download the videos [WeTransfer]
 
How is power divided in the United States government?,

TED-Ed, April 12, 2013 [4 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuFR5XBYLfU

What Is the Legislative Branch of the U.S. Government?,
History Channel, January 29, 2018 [4+ min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hltv8-nzcUc

What Is the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government?,
History Channel, January 29, 2018 [3+ min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWR2p9j9hWo

What Is the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government?,
History Channel, January 29, 2018 [3 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9giPmCWnepU

I’m Just a Bill (Schoolhouse Rock),
Schoolhouse Rock, August 18, 2014 [3 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ8psP4S6BQ
Note: These videos were actually made in the 1970s!

Contact Information:

Bill Eddy (aka Coach Bill),
billeddy@gmail.com
714.655.8135 (I prefer text)
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