Student Learning Map

  • Topic:The Executive Branch
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:12
  • Grade(s):12
Key Learning: The Constitution establishes a largely undefined executive branch which has grown in size and power.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
How has the executive branch evolved over time?
   
Concept: Presidency
Concept: Presidential Power
Concept: Bureaucratic Organization
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How is the president elected? (A)

What are the constitutional and traditional requirements for the presidency? (A)

What are the constitutional duties of the president? (A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

What is the role of the president in the development and execution of foreign and domestic policy? (A)

What events have acted as catalysts in increasing the power of the president? (A)

What competing philosophies of presidential power have been demonstrated by presidents throughout history? (A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

What are the three categories of bureaucratic organizations? (A)

How have events contributed to the growth and evolution of the bureaucracy? (A)

Additional Info:

The Presidency Video (The Power Game) The Unelected Video (The Power Game) Foldables United Streaming Campaign Essentials: Follow the Money United Streaming Campaign Essentials: Politics and the Media

Resources:

Vocabulary Report

  • Twelfth Amendment -
  • Pendleton Act -
  • executive agreement -
  • Twentieth Amendment -
  • Cabinet -
  • executive privilege -
  • Executive Office of the President -
  • War Powers Act -
  • Twenty-second Amendment -
  • agencies -
  • Twenty-fifth Amendment -
  • pocket veto -
  • State of the Union Address -
  • executive order -
  • Electoral College -
  • impoundment -
  • reprieve -
  • Article II of the Constitution -
  • pardon -
  • Primary election -
  • amnesty -
  • Term limitation -
  • patronage -
  • winner-take-all system -