BRAND NEW FOR 2010!
Celebrate Constitution Day with your students with a fun, interactive game from the Bill of Rights Institute. Our newest Web resource, Life Without the Bill of Rights? Is a click-and-explore activity that puts your students in control, asking them to consider how life would change without some of our most cherished freedoms. Life Without the Bill of Rights? invites your students to understand the significance of their constitutionally-protected rights including freedom of religion, speech, and press, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, and the rights of private property.
To guide your students through the activity, use our free graphic organizer.
Interactive Module
Looking for a great way to engage your students with the Constitution and the Constitutional Convention? Look no further! The Bill of Rights Institute's Interactive Module is an interactive flash experience that provides a great way to connect your students with the thoughts and ideas of the Constitutional Convention, and it's a lot of fun! The highlight of the Interactive Module, Madison's Notes are Missing, takes students back in time to the Constitutional Convention. The time-traveler will ask questions of the Founders and report their findings in a news story. Each Founder is voiced and animated. The next activity is an interactive crossword puzzle that focuses on the Founding. Answers are included - so no grading necessary! The final activity is a Founders quote matching exercise that lets students identify important phrases that were used by the Founders. Each quote is matched with its Founder by dragging it from the bottom box into the speech bubble above.
2010-2011 Bill of Rights Institute's Being an American Essay Contest
Want an easy way to celebrate Constitution Day in your classroom? Looking for FREE classroom resources? Want to win $5,000 
and an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, D.C.?
Participate in the Bill of Rights Institute's Being an American Essay Contest with your class for Constitution Day! The largest high school essay contest in the country is back, asking students to answer the question, "What civic value do you believe is most essential to being an American?" Over 50,000 students participated last year in all 50 states. The 2010-2011 Bill of Rights Institute Being an American Essay Contest begins on September 1, 2010 and will continue until December 1, 2010.
For more information including a FREE classroom poster and activity, information sheets for you and your students, sample essays from last year, and a judging rubric visit www.BeingAnAmerican.org.
Other Resources
FREE MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL LESSONS
CONSTITUTION QUIZ
FOUNDING DOCUMENTS PDF DOWNLOADS