American Government: A Christian Worldview – Christian School Teacher Resources and Downloads (18-Week Course)
This page provides supporting materials for the American Government Teacher’s Guide for Christian Schools (18-Week Course), including downloadable PDFs, tests and quizzes, classroom games and activities, and grading tools.
Downloads and links are arranged to match the classroom layout in the Teacher’s Guide under “Weekly/Daily Materials.”
These resources are designed to save time, reinforce key concepts, and support effective classroom instruction.
(The selection of material from a particular organization or individual does not necessarily, of course, equate to a blanket endorsement of every position of that organization or individual.)
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Weekly/Daily Materials
Week 1, Day 1
“What” vs. ”Why” Sorting Challenge
What’s Wrong With This Thinking?
Week 1, Day 2
“Based on What?” Challenge
Ultimate Priority
Crossword Puzzle 1
Two Purposes: Crime vs. Sin
To Punish or Not to Punish
You’re the Judge! Part 1
Week 1, Day 3
“Do They Agree?” Quick Match Challenge
Short Film: “Separation Between Church and State” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Whose Job Is It? (Church or State?)
Build a Free Society
Week 1, Day 4
Crossword Puzzle 2
Breaking News! 1: Drunk Driver Found Guilty
Word Search 1
Week 1, Day 5
Quiz 1 • Quiz 1 Blank Template
You’re the Judge! 2
Harm or Not? Rapid-fire Challenge
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 1
Week 2, Day 1
Obey or Refuse? Decision Line
Press Conference: Ask the Christian
Government Tic-Tac-Toe
Build a Government
Who Put Them There?
Angel Or Sinner? Too-Big, Too-Little Government
Week 2, Day 2
Article: “Democracy Is Not the Same Thing as Freedom”
The Bible and the Rule of Law (Ancient Greece)
Article: “It Started With Plato”
Short Film: “Are We Rome Yet?” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 2, Day 3
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 2
Angel or Sinner? Too-Big, Too-Little Government 2
Renaissance Men
Crossword Puzzle 3
Enlightenment Survivor
Week 2, Day 4
Build a Government Without Creating a Tyrant
Short Film: “How a Free Republic Becomes a Tyrannical Empire” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 2, Day 5
Quiz 2 • Quiz 2 Blank Template
Circuit Rider Court
Government Pictionary 1
Week 3, Day 1
Short Film: “The British House of Commons” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Horseback Justice
Week 3, Day 2
Suspend It or Not? (Habeas Corpus)
Crossword Puzzle 4
Week 3, Day 3
Save the Nation! Government Mix-up Game
Short Film: “Why the Founders Did Not Want a Democracy” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 3, Day 4
Choose a Constitution!
The Officeholder Test
Is This State a Nation?
Founding a Free State, Part 1
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 3
Week 3, Day 5
Test 1 • Test 1 Blank Template
Hangman 1
Connect Four 1
Week 4, Day 1
Founding a Free State, Part 2
Short Film: “Why the Articles of Confederation Were Actually a Success” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 4, Day 2
Article: “Did the Articles of Confederation Fail? Probably Not”
Christian Persecution During The American Revolution
Word Search 2
Week 4, Day 3
Federalist or Antifederalist?
Hidden Consequences: Patrick Henry’s Warning
Jeopardy! 1 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Week 4, Day 4
Antifederalist Alarm Bells
Short Film: “The Anti-federalists” (Film • Discussion Guide)
BREAKING NEWS! Governor Closes State
Interpretation Showdown, Part 1
Week 4, Day 5
Quiz 3 • Quiz 3 Blank Template
Article: “The Prophetic Antifederalists”
Crossword Puzzle 5
Constitution Translator
Government Pictionary 2
Week 5, Day 1
30,000 or Bust!
“General Welfare” Sales Pitch
Interpretation Showdown, Part 2
Week 5, Day 2
Execute or Refuse?
Short Film: “What Does Article II Say About the Powers of the President?” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 5, Day 3
Hangman 2
Let’s Fix the Supreme Court!
Short Film: “The Popular Vote vs. the Electoral College” (Film • Discussion Guide)
The Big-City Problem: The Electoral College
Week 5, Day 4
Pursuance or Pretend (The “Supremacy” Clause”)
Crossword Puzzle 6
Short Films: “Thomas Jefferson on the General Welfare Clause” • “What the General Welfare Clause Actually Meant” • Discussion Guide
Newspaper Headline and Story Writing Activity (The Supreme Court)
Week 5, Day 5
Quiz 4 • Quiz 4 Blank Template
Jeopardy! 2 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Henry vs. Hamilton: A Founders Face-off (The Bill of Rights)
Week 6, Day 1
Connect Four 2
Article: “The Bill of Rights: The Only Good Part of the Constitution”
Week 6, Day 2
First Amendment Freedom Filter
Constitutional Dominoes (Bill of Rights “Incorporation”)
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 4
Week 6, Day 3
Short Film: “The Incorporated Bill of Rights and Federalism” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Washington’s Warning (Free Speech)
Crossword Puzzle 7
First Amendment Short Films:
“The Biden Administration, Facebook, and COVID-19”
“Hillary Clinton, Tim Walz, John Kerry, and ‘Misinformation'”
“Pam Bondi and ‘Hate Speech'”
Discussion Guide
Week 6, Day 4
Podcast: “The Right to Own a Gun Isn’t Just for Americans”
Short Film: “Politicians and the Second Amendment, Part 1”
Discussion Guide for Podcast & Short Film
Article: “The Second Amendment Has No Exceptions”
Short Film: “Politicians and the Second Amendment, Part 2” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Fourth Amendment Investigator
Search Warrant Showdown
Week 6, Day 5
Test 2 • Test 2 Blank Template
Short Film: “What Is the Exclusionary Rule?” (Fourth Amendment)
Short Film: “Five Exceptions to the Exclusionary Rule” (Fourth Amendment)
Discussion Guide for Both Films
Government Pictionary 3
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 5
Week 7, Day 1
Article: “The Fifth Amendment Protects Everyone, Not Just Citizens”
Short Film: “Little Pink House” (Eminent Domain/Fifth Amendment)
Short Film: “When Pulled Over, Plead the Fifth”
Discussion Guide for Both Films
Word Search 3
Sixth Amendment Survival Draft
Sixth Amendment Rescue Mission
Week 7, Day 2
Short Film: “Pulled Over and Robbed: How Police Take Money from Innocent People [Civil Asset Forfeiture]” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 6 (Articles II & III)
Hangman 3
Bail, Fines, and Punishment: Eighth Amendment Challenges
Short Film: “Ron Paul Explains the General Welfare Clause”
Week 7, Day 3
Article: “The Tenth Amendment Is Always the Right Answer”
Short Film: “Obamacare and the Tenth Amendment” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Jury Duty – First Amendment Cases
Crossword Puzzle 8
Week 7, Day 4
Connect Four 3
Presidential Power Audit
Short Film: “Chisholm v. Georgia in a Nutshell” (Film • Discussion Guide)
“Tenth Amendment. I Said, ‘The Tenth Amendment.'”
Week 7, Day 5
Quiz 5 • Quiz 5 Blank Template
Word Search 4
Short Film: “The Secretary of Education Contradicts Herself [Tenth Amendment]” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Constitutional Loophole Lab
Week 8, Day 1
Washington and John Quincy Adams: Stay Out or Step In?
Government Pictionary 4
Week 8, Day 2
Article: “Why Are There Still Any Foreign Interventionists?”
Selling Monster Hunts
Week 8, Day 3
Hamilton’s Handout Hustle
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 7
Jeopardy! 3 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Week 8, Day 4
Fix the Court!
Crossword Puzzle 9
Fighting Fraud or Foisting Favoritism? (The “Commerce Clause”)
Week 8, Day 5
Quiz 6 • Quiz 6 Blank Template
Operation Jury Nullification
Hangman 4
Week 9, Day 1
Connect Four 4
Short Films:
“Cruz, Holder Spar Over Potential Drone Strike on U.S. Soil” (Film • Discussion Guide)
“Woolsey Evades Question by Insulting Jan” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Sam’s Neighborhood Disaster, Part II
Week 9, Day 2
Word Search 5
Short Film: “Rep. Thomas Massie Rips Democrats and Republicans on Spending” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Article: “America Has a Uniparty System”
Week 9, Day 3
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 8
You’re the Judge! 3
Foreign Intervention/Sedition Act Children’s Story
Week 9, Day 4
The “Implied Powers” Domino Disaster
Short Film: “McCulloch v. Maryland: The Debate About Enumerated Powers” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Jeopardy! 4 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Week 9, Day 5
Test 3 • Test 3 Blank Template
Word Search 6
Article: “Opposing Imperialism Is Not Isolationism”
Short Film: “A Layman’s Guide to Jury Nullification”
Short Film: “Nullification: Interview With a Zombie”
Discussion Guide for Both Films
Week 10, Day 1
Short Film: “Are Protective Tariffs Constitutional?” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Hangman 5
Week 10, Day 2
Connect Four 5
Tariff Spin Doctors
Week 10, Day 3
Operation Peaceable Departure
Government Pictionary 5
Short Film: “Is Secession Legal?”
Short Film: “Ron Paul Right, Thought Controllers Wrong, on Secession”
Discussion Guide for Both Films
Week 10, Day 4
Presidential Promise Probe
Jeopardy! 5 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Week 10, Day 5
Quiz 7 • Quiz 7 Blank Template
Historical Spin Room
Crossword Puzzle 10
Week 11, Day 1
Reconstruction Repair Crew
Crazy Commerce Clause Conclusions
Week 11, Day 2
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 9
Crossword Puzzle 11
Week 11, Day 3
Step by Step: The Income Tax Takeover
Which Amendment Was Violated?
Week 11, Day 4
Short Film: “The Seventeenth Amendment” (Film • Discussion Guide)
States Steering Senators
Week 11, Day 5
Quiz 8 • Quiz 8 Blank Template
Article: “The Consolidation of State Power via Reconstruction”
Connect Four 6
Week 12, Day 1
The Lusitania Propaganda Pitch
Woodrow Wilson Short Films:
“Founder of Big Government”
“World War I and the League of Nations”
“Forgotten History”
“Second Term and Death”
Discussion Guide
Week 12, Day 2
Hangman 6
Shouting “Fire!” and Speaking Truth
Week 12, Day 3
Article: “The Federal Reserve Killed My Grandfather”
Short Film: “Ron Paul – ‘End the Fed’ Speech, 25 February 2009” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 12, Day 4
The Bureau of Things That Don’t Need a Bureau
Government Pictionary 6
Week 12, Day 5
Test 4 • Test 4 Blank Template
Voicing Vehement Vetoes
Word Search 7
Week 13, Day 1
Word Search 8
Jeopardy! 6 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Week 13, Day 2
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 10
Crossword Puzzle 12
Week 13, Day 3
Short Film: “The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and New Deal” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Amendment Fairy Tale Parody
Optional: Show students any/all of these “Fractured Fairy Tales” for examples on how to write the fairy tale parody: Goldilocks, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Hansel and Gretel, Tom Thumb, Snow White, Rapunzel, The Three Little Pigs, Rumpelstiltskin
Week 13, Day 5
Quiz 9 • Quiz 9 Blank Template
Connect Four 7
Week 14, Day 1
Exaction Extraction
Exaction Retraction
Week 14, Day 2
Article: “The Fallacy of ‘Public’ Education”
Short Film: “There Is No Role for the Government in Education” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 14, Day 3
Hangman 7
BREAKING NEWS! Education Articles
Week 14, Day 4
Government Pictionary 7
Week 14, Day 5
Quiz 10 • Quiz 10 Blank Template
Government Through Early Christian Eyes
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 11
Week 15, Day 1
Article: “Dispatch the War Department”
Short Film: “Second Amendment: To Prevent the Greatest Danger to Liberty” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 15, Day 2
Founding Father War Tweets and Replies
Week 15, Day 3
Crossword Puzzle 13
Week 15, Day 4
Presidential Veto Challenge
Week 15, Day 5
Test 5 • Test 5 Blank Template
Jeopardy! 7 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Week 16, Day 1
Chapter X for Five-Year-Olds
Presidential Pardon Project
Week 16, Day 2
The Classroom Battlefield: School Prayer vs. Private Speech
Connect Four 8
Week 16, Day 3
Film: “Jack Abramoff: The Lobbyist’s Playbook” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 16, Day 4
Hangman 8
Week 16, Day 5
Quiz 11 • Quiz 11 Blank Template
Government Pictionary 8
Week 17, Day 1
Word Search 9
Week 17, Day 2
Jeopardy! 8 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Week 17, Day 3
PowerPoint Slides on So-Called “Emergencies,” Climate Change Panic, Etc.
Article: “12 Myths Fueling Government Overreach During Crisis”
Short Film: “Anthony Fauci & COVID-19”
Short Film: “EMERGENCY! Ice Age/Greenhouse Effect Scare (1972, 1978, 1982)”
Discussion Guide for Both Short Films
Week 17, Day 4
HELP WANTED: Vice President
Week 17, Day 5
Quiz 12 • Quiz 12 Blank Template
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 12
You’re the Judge! 4 (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments)
Week 18, Day 1
Create a Wasteful Government Program
Week 18, Day 2
Connect Four 9
Giant American Government Crossword Puzzle
Week 18, Day 3
Separation of Powers Showdown
Government Grab & Gaslight
Week 18, Day 4
Test 6 (Final) • Test 6 Blank Template
Word Search 10
Week 18, Day 5
Government Pictionary 9
Excel Grade Calculators – These make grading simple and flexible. Both automatically calculate final averages and allow you to customize category weights: Simple/One Tab • Four Tabs (Homework, Participation, Quizzes/Tests, Final Exam)