Put It All Together
Everything from the review sheet, in one place. First the four charts — separation of powers, checks and balances, federalism, and the amendments — the same blank ones your teacher hands out, except these talk back and they print. Then three sets of questions, each one carrying its number from the sheet, with hints the whole way. And at the bottom, a rehearsal: fifteen questions, a clock, no hints, and a score that is saved nowhere and seen by nobody.
Fill in the charts
The same charts your teacher hands out, except these ones talk back. Tap a card, then tap the column it belongs in — or drag it, if you have a mouse. Put one in the wrong column and nothing is lost: it tells you which column it really lives in, and why that one pulled you. Nothing here is recorded or counted. And it prints — blank for a class set, or finished, whichever state it is in when you press the button.
This page is the lesson: three sets of questions with hints the whole way, and the charts above to fill in and print. The scored, timed run through the review sheet now lives in one place with every other social studies quiz.
Go to the Quiz RoomShow me one first
This one is nobody's answer — it is only here to show the moves before you touch yours. Watching it is instruction, never a trial, and it counts toward nothing.
Now number 1 is yours. The hint button is there the whole time, and using it is part of the lesson.
Answer in your own words — the number in front of each one is its number on the class review sheet. On the back, fill in the three charts from memory: the three branches, the checks each one holds, and federal / shared / state.
- 1What was the main reason that the Articles of Confederation failed?
- 2What is the introduction and list of goals to the Constitution known as?
- 3What is the term for the division of power between the federal government and the state governments?
- 4What type of government was established by the Constitution?
- 5What plan called for a two-house legislature, with representation in both houses determined by population?
- 6What is the term for the division of power between three branches of government, each with its own powers?
- 7An amendment has been proposed. What vote is needed from the state legislatures to actually add it to the Constitution?
- 8On the matching section: establish and maintain schools, make marriage and divorce laws, conduct elections. Which government holds those three?
There is no right answer here. It only tells your teacher where to start next time.
The whole sheet, in your hands.
Two questions carried nearly every answer on this page. Which room — the House, the Senate, the desk, or the Court. And which number — a majority for ordinary business, two-thirds for the rare moments, three-fourths of the states to change the plan itself. Ask them in that order and most of this sheet answers itself.
The stretch is a choice. Taking it — or leaving it for another day — are both strong moves.
For the teacher — this device only
One probe row, built from what happened on this screen. Nothing is sent anywhere — copy it into the Goal Builder yourself, or print this page. Independent means answered with no hints; supported means answered after a hint. Both are real evidence and neither is a grade.
- Date
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- Skill
- Recall and apply the structure of the U.S. Constitution across all three branches, federalism, and the amendments
- Measure
- Trials (x of y)
- Independent
- 0 of 8
- Supported
- 0 of 8
- Hints used
- 0
- Confidence
- —
The cumulative review page, built straight from the class's own Constitution Review Sheet — every item carries its number from that sheet, and the number shows on screen, on the hint, on the printed worksheet and in the rehearsal results, so a student who misses one knows exactly which line to go read. Set 1 is the plan and its parts (the Articles of Confederation's failure, the Preamble, federalism, the republic, the Virginia Plan, separation of powers, the three-fourths ratification wall, and the federal/state/shared sort). Set 2 is Congress and the presidency (535, the census, the ages and residency, the once-a-year floor, the Cabinet, the presidential qualifications, four years and the ten-year outside edge, and 538/270/the House deciding). Set 3 is the courts, the checks and the amendments (nine and life, what begins at the Supreme Court, the district courts, appointment and confirmation, judicial review and Marbury, impeachment's two rooms, the veto and its two-thirds answer, and the five amendments the sheet names). Items 1-5 are recall; 6-8 are the plan at work. THE CHART STUDIO up top is the four handouts made live — tap or drag, every placement teaches, and it PRINTS in whatever state it is in: press the button before anyone touches it for a blank class set, or after for the finished chart. THE REHEARSAL at the bottom is the one scored thing on this site: fifteen mixed questions, a clock, no hints, results at the end with every miss shown beside its answer. It records nothing — no probe row, no storage, no send — and the page says so where students can read it. The probe row below still measures only the practice walk, exactly as on every other page. ⚠ ONE THING TO SETTLE BEFORE THE QUIZ. The class study guide states that 2/3 is needed in BOTH houses to pass a bill. Two-thirds is the number for OVERRIDING a veto; an ordinary bill passes each house by a simple majority, which is what h14 teaches and what the Constitution says. Rather than teach either one over the top of the other, this page leaves that single question out of its items — the override and its two-thirds are asked directly in Set 3, where they are not in doubt. Worth a word with the department before the test.
Three doors on this page: Show me one first is a worked example and counts toward nothing; the eight items are the walk; and a finished set opens One more, if you want it — a stretch with two tries and the thinking shown warmly either way. Whether each door was used rides along when a probe row is copied or sent — as information, never as a score.