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🗺️ 5th Grade · Social StudiesD2.Civ.4.3-5Unit 5: Creating a new government

Three branches

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🎯 Objective: Students describe checks and balances.

Lesson outline

  1. Branch chart.
  2. Scenarios.
  3. Discuss.
  4. Exit: one check.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.Civ.4.3-5

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
  • Describe the three branches

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Creating a new government”

  1. The Constitutional Convention
  2. Three branches
  3. The Bill of Rights

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