4-4.2 Links to Important Information

Vocabulary

• Legislative Branch
• Executive Branch
• Judicial Branch
• checks and balances
• compliance with Constitution
• Congress
• House of Representatives
• Senate
• Capitol
• writing, making, and passing bills which will eventually become laws
• President's veto
• override President's veto with a 2/3 majority
• 9 judges
• impeachment
• appointed
• President is over the Executive Branch
• White House
• Commander in Chief
• declare war
• Supreme Court
• federal district courts
• court of appeals
• are the laws made by Congress being carried out in conformance with the Constitution?

Links

• White House In 1798
• White House -2010
• Capitol Building in Washington DC
• Supreme Court in Washington DC
• President and Vice President

Suggestions

• Talk to the students about each of the three branches of government. Try to relate pictures of the Capitol, White House and Judicial Building to the branch so that the children have a visual of what they do.
• There are official sites of each Congressman and Senator and these may be important to use with the students.
• Make sure that the students have a good grasp of the vocabulary.

Books

• The White House: Susan Gray
• The White House: Marcovitz, Hal
• The White House: Karapetkova, Holly
• The United States Capitol: Karapetkova, Holly