Educational Resources
The Center for Legislative Archives—part of the National Archives—maintains some of the most historically valuable documents created by the federal government: the records of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Educators can us these historical documents to teach about the important role Congress has played throughout American history.
These resources are designed to assist teachers with using primary source materials to integrate Congress into history, government and civics classes. These lesson plans are suitable for junior high and middle school students, and are correlated to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards.
Available lesson plans:
- Congress and the Creation of the Bill of Rights
- Teaching Six Big Ideas in the Constitution
- Was Reconstruction a Revolution?
This lesson uses primary sources documents related to teach students how the First Congress created the Bill of Rights, and about the essential role James Madison played in that process.
This lesson engages students in a study of the U.S. Constitution and the significance of six big ideas contained in it: limited government; republicanism; checks and balances; federalism; separation of powers; and popular sovereignty.
In this lesson students will examine several historical congressional records from the Reconstruction era to determine whether the Reconstruction period of American history should or should not be viewed as a revolution.
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