Introduction
You will explore the structure of Congress, Congressional Leadership, and Congressional Committees in order to answer the essential question:
How does our government fulfill its responsibilities under the Social Contract?
Task
Your task is to create an organizational chart of the legislative branch and then diagram the process a bill goes through to make a law. In order to fully understand this, there are some vocabulary words you need to know.
Use the Congressional WebQuest worksheet to complete this WebQuest.
Process
Begin with the website article Leadership in Congress: It's a Party Matter. You will find some essential definitions here, including partisan, majority, minority, and some descriptions of what Congressional Leaders do.
Additional information can be found in VoteSmart's Government 101 and in Congress for Kids.
You have multiple resources to help you diagram How a Bill Becomes a Law. Choose from the resources below - you may use as many as you need.
- Congress, the People's Branch: How a Bill Becomes a Law
- Schoolhouse Rock: I'm Just a Bill (if you that site is blocked, go through EdPuzzle - no questions!) https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/5bc4ef8a2cc54a4044424b4d/watch (or through Google Classroom)
- Congress for Kids
- Kids in the House
- Scholastic How a Bill Becomes a Law