Students create art works based on an examination of the language of the Constitution and the personal connections they make. These art works will incorporate words, illustrations, and mixed media images.
Considering Leadership: A Civic Art Project
Teach your students about elections, help them consider issues that matter to them, and watch as they lend their voices to our national conversation about leadership.
A Seat at the Table Civic Art Project
This lesson plan is designed to help you facilitate the design and creation of your class’s chairs—your “seats at the table” of representative democracy.
Voting Rights in America Timeline
This timeline explores when different groups of Americans gained the right to vote.
Women’s Fight for Suffrage
Learn about women’s fight for the right to vote in the United States including major leaders and strategies of the women’s suffrage movement.
Symbols of the Senate: Friezes
Explore the idea of allegories and symbols in art. Then create your own allegorical image.
Senator in Training: Senate Committees
Learn about some of the Senate’s different committees and create an agenda for a committee.
Senator in Training: Compromise
Learn about the importance of compromise in the Senate. Complete the worksheet to make a compromise for a contemporary Senate issue and then work on creating one for something in your life.
Traditions of the Senate: Senate Decorum
For more than 200 years, the United States Senate has held certain traditions and customs that Senators follow in order to work together in Congress. Learn about Senate decorum, or the rules about how senators behave as they work. Then, use the worksheet to make some family rules.
Traditions of the Senate: Bean Soup
The Senate has a tradition, or a practice, of having Bean Soup on the menu every day! Learn more about the Senate’s Bean Soup and make your own senatorial soup at home.