Related Links

The National Archives Celebrates Constitution Day: Resources from the National Archives. This document provides information on some of the live celebrations occurring across the country.

Constitution Day Online Resources

1. Constitution Day Activities and Lesson Plans for Middle and High School students, from the Bill of Rights Foundation.

2. Patriotic Melodies includes twenty-seven patriotic songs with background information concerning the origin. Audio is available for downloading.

3. The The Library of Congress: American Memories Collection Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789.

4. The National Archives website provides photos of the original Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights, as well as activities for observing Constitution Day such as meeting the Founding Fathers and signing the Constitution. Here is the specific link to The National Archives Experience: The Constitution

5. The Library of Congress website called "America's Story," contains engaging activities such as Meet Amazing Americans and Jump Back in Time to help students learn more about their country's history. This site can be used with all grade levels, but it is geared more towards upper elementary grade.

6. Resources for teaching Constitution Day It Shaped Our History; It Charts Our Future, from the Annenberg Foundation Trust, in conjunction with Justice Learning.

7. Justice Learning has 6 lessons for grades 7 - 12 on the court system with handouts for teachers and students.

8. The National Constitution Center offers educational resources for both educators and students. Activities for students include games, puzzles, and trivia. Resources for teachers include lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school, word searches, crossword puzzles, and an interactive game. The National Constitution Center's Interactive Constitution is awesome!

9. Activities, specific to Constitution Day, for educators and students from the National Constitution Center Constitution Day Lessons.

10. The Center for Civic Education offers seven ready-to-use lessons for Constitution Day. The lessons are designed to help educators fulfill the federal mandate. The lessons, which were developed in collaboration with the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), are available for kindergarten through twelfth grade. They contain multiple ideas for discussion topics, exercises, questions, and activities, as well as short background readings and were adapted from the Center's We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution text and Foundations of Democracy curriculum.

11. The School House Rock website includes amusing audio and text for ten history related topics such as The Preamble to the Constitution and our Three-Ring Government.

12. The Constitution Facts website contains crossword puzzles, famous quotes, and dates to remember concerning the development and ratification of the Constitution.

13. Ben's Guide to the United States Government. This site, maintained by the U.S. Government Printing Office, offers Social Studies related activities and websites for grades K-12.

14. The White House website offers elementary-level activities with lesson plans on the White House and the President and Presidential coloring pages.

15. Constitution Day Resource About.com's Constitution Day Resource Page with information on the history of the Constitution and links to additional resources.

16. Landmark Supreme Court Cases This site provides resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases.

17. The Constitutional Rights Foundation provides lessons and activities for teachers to teach about the Constitution for all grade levels.

18. Constitution Facts: This site provides information on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. It even includes a short "Test Your Constitution IQ" quiz!

19. Annenberg Classroom and Sunnylands Classroom offer A rich set of teaching aids on the Constitution helps educators and government employees meet the requirement of the Byrd Amendment to provide materials on the U.S. Constitution for Constitution Day (September 17). Educators can find award-winning films and supplementary lesson plans; “Ask a Supreme Court Justice,” featuring answers from Supreme Court Justices to high school students’ questions about American democratic institutions; state standards-aligned curricula; in-depth analysis by constitutional scholars and legal experts; downloadable reference books; and multimedia programs and games.”