American Government: A Christian Worldview – Homeschool Co-op Teacher Resources and Downloads (16-Week Course)
This page provides supporting materials for the American Government Teacher’s Guide for Homeschool Co-ops (16-Week, 1-Semester Course), including printable handouts, tests, quizzes, classroom games, activities, and grading tools.
Downloads and links are arranged to match the classroom layout in the Teacher’s Guide.
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.)
For questions or support, email me at this address (replace the # symbol with an @ symbol): scott#homeschoolpartners.net, or use the About/Contact link at the top of this page. – Scott Clifton
Weekly Materials
CLASS 1:
“What” vs. ”Why” Sorting Challenge
What’s Wrong With This Thinking?
“Based on What?” Challenge
CLASS 2:
Quiz 1 • Quiz 1 Blank Template
Breaking News! 1: Drunk Driver Found Guilty
Build a Free Society
Crossword Puzzle 1
Crossword Puzzle 2
“Do They Agree?” Quick Match Challenge
Harm or Not? Rapid-fire Challenge
Short Film: “Separation Between Church and State” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 1
To Punish or Not to Punish
Two Purposes: Crime vs. Sin
Ultimate Priority
Whose Job Is It? (Church or State?)
Word Search 1
You’re the Judge! Part 1
You’re the Judge! 2
CLASS 3:
Quiz 2 • Quiz 2 Blank Template
Test 1 • Test 1 Blank Template
Angel Or Sinner? Too-Big, Too-Little Government
Angel or Sinner? Too-Big, Too-Little Government 2
Article: “Democracy Is Not the Same Thing as Freedom”
Article: “It Started With Plato”
Build a Government
Build a Government Without Creating a Tyrant
Crossword Puzzle 3
Enlightenment Survivor
Government Tic-Tac-Toe
Government Pictionary 1
Obey or Refuse? Decision Line
Press Conference: Ask the Christian
Renaissance Men
Short Film: “Are We Rome Yet?” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Short Film: “How a Free Republic Becomes a Tyrannical Empire” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 2
The Bible and the Rule of Law (Ancient Greece)
Who Put Them There?
CLASS 4:
Quiz 3 • Quiz 3 Blank Template
Christian Persecution During The American Revolution
Choose a Constitution!
Circuit Rider Court
Connect Four 1
Crossword Puzzle 4
Hangman 1
Horseback Justice
Save the Nation! Government Mix-up Game
Short Film: “The British House of Commons” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Short Film: “Why the Founders Did Not Want a Democracy” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Suspend It or Not? (Habeas Corpus)
The Officeholder Test
CLASS 5:
Quiz 4 • Quiz 4 Blank Template
Test 2 • Test 2 Blank Template
30,000 or Bust!
Antifederalist Alarm Bells
Article: “Did the Articles of Confederation Fail? Probably Not”
BREAKING NEWS! Governor Closes State
Constitution Translator
Crossword Puzzle 5
Federalist or Antifederalist?
Founding a Free State, Part 1
Founding a Free State, Part 2
“General Welfare” Sales Pitch
Government Pictionary 2
Hidden Consequences: Patrick Henry’s Warning
Interpretation Showdown, Part 1
Interpretation Showdown, Part 2
Is This State a Nation?
Jeopardy! 1 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Short Film: “The Anti-federalists” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Short Film: “Why the Articles of Confederation Were Actually a Success” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 3
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 4
Article: “The Prophetic Antifederalists”
Word Search 2
CLASS 6:
Quiz 5 • Quiz 5 Blank Template
Article: “The Bill of Rights: The Only Good Part of the Constitution”
Connect Four 2
Crossword Puzzle 6
Execute or Refuse?
Hangman 2
Henry vs. Hamilton: A Founders Face-off (The Bill of Rights)
Jeopardy! 2 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Let’s Fix the Supreme Court!
Newspaper Headline and Story Writing Activity (The Supreme Court)
Pursuance or Pretend (The “Supremacy” Clause”)
Short Film: “The Popular Vote vs. the Electoral College” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Short Film: “What Does Article II Say About the Powers of the President?” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Short Films: “Thomas Jefferson on the General Welfare Clause” • “What the General Welfare Clause Actually Meant” • Discussion Guide
The Big-City Problem: The Electoral College
CLASS 7:
Quiz 6 • Quiz 6 Blank Template
Test 3 • Test 3 Blank Template
Article: “The Fifth Amendment Protects Everyone, Not Just Citizens”
Article: “The Second Amendment Has No Exceptions”
Constitutional Dominoes (Bill of Rights “Incorporation”)
Crossword Puzzle 7
First Amendment Freedom Filter
Fourth Amendment Investigator
Government Pictionary 3
Hangman 3
Jury Duty – First Amendment Cases
Search Warrant Showdown
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
Short Film: “Politicians and the Second Amendment, Part 2” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Short Film: “Pulled Over and Robbed: How Police Take Money from Innocent People [Civil Asset Forfeiture]” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Short Film: “The Incorporated Bill of Rights and Federalism” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Short Film: “Little Pink House” (Eminent Domain/Fifth Amendment)
Short Film: “When Pulled Over, Plead the Fifth”
Discussion Guide for Both Films
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
Short Film: “What Is the Exclusionary Rule?” (Fourth Amendment)
Short Film: “Five Exceptions to the Exclusionary Rule” (Fourth Amendment)
Discussion Guide for Both Films
Sixth Amendment Rescue Mission
Sixth Amendment Survival Draft
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 5
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 6 (Articles II & III)
The Fourth Amendment Evidence Dilemma
Washington’s Warning (Free Speech)
Word Search 3
CLASS 8:
Quiz 7 • Quiz 7 Blank Template
Article: “The Tenth Amendment Is Always the Right Answer”
Article: “Why Are There Still Any Foreign Interventionists?”
Bail, Fines, and Punishment: Eighth Amendment Challenges
Connect Four 3
Constitutional Loophole Lab
Crossword Puzzle 8
Government Pictionary 4
Hangman 4
Presidential Power Audit
Selling Monster Hunts
Short Film: “Chisholm v. Georgia in a Nutshell” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Short Film: “Obamacare and the Tenth Amendment” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Short Film: “Ron Paul Explains the General Welfare Clause”
Short Film: “The Secretary of Education Contradicts Herself [Tenth Amendment]” (Film • Discussion Guide)
“Tenth Amendment. I Said, ‘The Tenth Amendment.'”
Washington and John Quincy Adams: Stay Out or Step In?
Which Amendment Was Violated?
Word Search 4
Word Search 5
CLASS 9:
Quiz 8 • Quiz 8 Blank Template
Test 4 • Test 4 Blank Template
Article: “America Has a Uniparty System”
Connect Four 4
Crossword Puzzle 9
Fighting Fraud or Foisting Favoritism? (The “Commerce Clause”)
Fix the Court!
Hamilton’s Handout Hustle
Jeopardy! 3 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Operation Jury Nullification
Sam’s Neighborhood Disaster, Part II
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)
Short Film: “Rep. Thomas Massie Rips Democrats and Republicans on Spending” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 7
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 8
Word Search 6
You’re the Judge! 3
CLASS 10:
Quiz 9 • Quiz 9 Blank Template
Connect Four 5
Crossword Puzzle 10
Government Pictionary 5
Hangman 5
The “Implied Powers” Domino Disaster
Jeopardy! 4 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Operation Peaceable Departure
Article: “Opposing Imperialism Is Not Isolationism”
Presidential Promise Probe
Short Film: “Are Protective Tariffs Constitutional?” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Short Film: “McCulloch v. Maryland: The Debate About Enumerated Powers” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Short Film: “A Layman’s Guide to Jury Nullification”
Short Film: “Nullification: Interview With a Zombie”
Discussion Guide for Both Films
Short Film: “Is Secession Legal?”
Short Film: “Ron Paul Right, Thought Controllers Wrong, on Secession”
Discussion Guide for Both Films
Tariff Spin Doctors
CLASS 11:
Quiz 10 • Quiz 10 Blank Template
Test 5 • Test 5 Blank Template
Article: “The Consolidation of State Power via Reconstruction”
Connect Four 6
Crazy Commerce Clause Conclusions
Crossword Puzzle 11
Hangman 6
Historical Spin Room
Jeopardy! 5 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Reconstruction Repair Crew
Short Film: “The Seventeenth Amendment” (Film • Discussion Guide)
States Steering Senators
Woodrow Wilson Short Films:
“Founder of Big Government”
“World War I and the League of Nations”
“Forgotten History”
“Second Term and Death”
Discussion Guide
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 9
Step by Step: The Income Tax Takeover
The Lusitania Propaganda Pitch
Voicing Vehement Vetoes
Word Search 7
CLASS 12:
Quiz 11 • Quiz 11 Blank Template
Article: “The Federal Reserve Killed My Grandfather”
Crossword Puzzle 12
Government Pictionary 6
Jeopardy! 6 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Short Film: “The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and New Deal” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Short Film: “Ron Paul – ‘End the Fed’ Speech, 25 February 2009” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Shouting “Fire!” and Speaking Truth
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 10
The Bureau of Things That Don’t Need a Bureau
Word Search 8
CLASS 13:
Quiz 12 • Quiz 12 Blank Template
Test 6 • Test 6 Blank Template
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
Article: “Dispatch the War Department”
Short Film: “Second Amendment: To Prevent the Greatest Danger to Liberty” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Article: “The Fallacy of ‘Public’ Education”
Short Film: “There Is No Role for the Government in Education” (Film • Discussion Guide)
BREAKING NEWS! Education Articles
Connect Four 7
Crossword Puzzle 13
Exaction Extraction
Exaction Retraction
Founding Father War Tweets and Replies
Government Through Early Christian Eyes
Government Pictionary 7
Hangman 7
Jeopardy! 7 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 11
CLASS 14:
Chapter X for Five-Year-Olds
Connect Four 8
Hangman 8
Presidential Pardon Project
Presidential Veto Challenge
Film: “Jack Abramoff: The Lobbyist’s Playbook” (Film • Discussion Guide)
The Classroom Battlefield: School Prayer vs. Private Speech
CLASS 15:
Test 7 • Test 7 Blank Template
Article: “12 Myths Fueling Government Overreach During Crisis”
Jeopardy! 8 (Jeopardy Round, Double Jeopardy/Final Round)
PowerPoint Slides on So-Called “Emergencies,” Climate Change Panic, Etc.
Short Film: “Anthony Fauci & COVID-19”
Short Film: “EMERGENCY! Ice Age/Greenhouse Effect Scare (1972, 1978, 1982)”
Discussion Guide for Both Short Films
Government Pictionary 8
HELP WANTED: Vice President
Word Search 9
CLASS 16:
Test 8 (Cumulative Final) • Test 8 Blank Template
Connect Four 9
Create a Wasteful Government Program
Giant American Government Crossword Puzzle
Government Grab & Gaslight
Government Pictionary 9
Separation of Powers Showdown
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 12
Word Search 10
You’re the Judge! 4 (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments)
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)