Engaging Congress

Engaging Congress is a game that uses primary source documents, photographs, political cartoons, maps, and other items to explore the challenges of sustaining representative democracy in our complex and diverse nation today. Features: - Introductory Video - Theme-based Stories - Primary Source Gallery - Primary Source Analysis - Trivia Challenge - Assessment Tools - Mini-games... ...More Engaging Congress content is divided into five thematic stories: - More Equal Than Others (Influencing the Political Process) - Laws and Sausages (Separation of Powers) - Vote Early, Vote Often (Voting Rights) - A Balancing Act (The Federal Budget) - Fair is not Always Equal (Federalism and States' Rights) The accompanying Engaging Congress website (engagingcongress.org) contains many additional resources including: - The Teacher Toolbox - Curriculum Guide - Correlation of content with Social Studies standards - Bank of multiple-choice and discussion assessment questions - Links to Library of Congress primary source analysis guides - Downloadable PDFs and PNGs of all primary source documents - And more.