Warm-up Questions About the Constitution:
Working with your group, find and write the answers to these questions by clicking above: 

1. Who was the youngest delegate to the Constitutional Convention?
2. In what order did the states signed the Constitution?
3. How did we get the name “United States of America?
4. What are the exact measurements of the Constitution?
5. How many words is the Constitution?
6. How long could it take to read it all?
7. Who presided over the Constitutional Convention?
8. Then, write three more questions and pose them to another team!
9. Answer another team's three questions.

Explore who drafted and signed the Constitution. Make sure to find out and report on what character traits and background may have led them to take this enormous step! Follow the steps below. Make sure to work with your group. You will receive an individual and a group grade. 

http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/charters_of_freedom/constitution/founding_fathers.html

1. Click on the site above.
2. Scan through the biographies of the Founding Fathers.
3. Choose one who interests you.
4. Read his biography, taking notes onto 5-6 index cards.
5. Use your notes to briefly (3-4 minutes) tell your work group the important details about your chosen delegate.

Jefferson and Franklin

Students at ThinkQuest have kindly prepared us a road map to the Constitution. Click on their Site: http://library.thinkquest.org/11572/constitution/index.html

1. Choose "Browse the Constitution" to get an overview of the whole Constitution. 
2. Then go back to the page above by choosing the red button labeled "Constitution" .
3. Click on "Important Sections" link.
4. Read the section to give you a quick overview of what this ThinkQuest considers the Constitution's most important     provisions to us today.
5. Go back to the Constitution page by clicking on "Constitution Menu".
6. Within your group of four, divide up the Articles of the Constitution as follows:

Team Member One - Preamble and Article One

Team Member Two - Articles Two and Three 

Team Member Three - Articles Four and Five 

Team Member Four - Articles Six and Seven 

1. Read your sections. 
2. Then click on its title (in blue) for an explanation by ThinkQuest. (You will see two windows and can use them to scroll between while you read the section and its explanation.) 
3. Take notes and make sure that you understand your sections. 
4. Read the Articles to your group.
5. Give a brief explanation of what they mean.
6. Give and explain an example of how the Articles apply today. (If they don't apply today, then explain why not.)
7. Make sure to take notes during your team mates' presentations.

After finishing Steps 1-3, it's time to summarize what your group has learned, and present the summary to the whole class. The format should be very high level, as in an Executive Summary. (Pretend we're the President being briefed by our advisors.) 

1. Work with your team members to decide what you really need to tell and show our class in an Executive Summary.
2. You may use charts, graphs, graphics, pictures, etc. Your choice!
3. If you have other pieces of research that will not fit into the framework of the Executive Summary, we will put it into our class report, as part of the appendix.
4. Prepare the Executive Summary and present it to the rest of the class. The maximum time allowed is 15 minutes!
5. Then, as a class, we will create a coherent summary!