Welcome to the Great Food Debate!

The Great Food Debate!!!!

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Date:______

Welcome to the Great Food Debate!

The school needs your help in creating our bill so we can have healthy lunches in our cafeteria. We need to learn about the government first so we can write a great bill to Congress. This worksheet will help you collect information so we know the different branches of the Government and how a bill becomes a law.Answer the following questions to help us learn more!

The Executive Branch

Click on President Obama to connect to the website about the Executive Branch.

1.)What article of the Constitution allows us to have a president?

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2.)Who is the head of the Executive Branch?

Look at the side bar and click President’s Job, Part I

3.)Which branch of Government is intended to be the most powerful branch?

Look at the side bar and click The President’s cabinet

4.)What was the name of the members of Cabinet in George Washington’s cabinet?

5.)The modern cabinet has 15 members. What are those members?

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The Legislative Branch

Click on the Capital building to learn more about the Legislative Branch.

1.)What article of the Constitution allows us to have this branch of the government?

2.)What are the two parts of Congress?

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Click on the House of Representatives

3.)What are the 3 things the representatives must be?

4.)The House has special jobs that they can only do. What are they?

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Click on the Senate

5.)What are the 3 things the senators must be?

6.)The Senate has special jobs that only it can do. What are they?

The Judicial Branch

Click on the Judge to learn more about the Judicial Branch of Government.

1.)What is the Supreme Court responsible for?

2.)Do all the other courts in the United States need to follow the ruling or the decision made by the Supreme Court? Yes or No?

3.)What does the constitution allow the Supreme Court to do?

4.)About how many rulings are considered by the Supreme Court each year?

Congratulations you have learned all about the three branches of the Government! Now we can look at How a Bill becomes a law!

1.)What is the capital city?

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2.)What does a Bill become after it is voted on?

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3.)What does a Bill start as? Who do we need to help write our bill?

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4.)Who talks about the Bills?

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5.)In which committee does our Bill start? Where does it go next? Who is the last person who has to sign our bill to have it become a law?

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Congratulations you are now ready to help write our bill!!

Click on Mr. Law to see what your next task is!