American Government: A Christian Worldview – Christian School Teacher Resources and Downloads (36-Week Course)
This page provides supporting materials for the American Government Teacher’s Guide for Christian Schools (36-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 2
“What” vs. ”Why” Sorting Challenge
What’s Wrong With This Thinking?
Week 1, Day 3
“Based on What?” Challenge
Ultimate Priority
Week 1, Day 4
Crossword Puzzle 1
Two Purposes: Crime vs. Sin
Week 1, Day 5
To Punish or Not to Punish
You’re the Judge! 1
Week 2, Day 1
“Do They Agree?” Quick Match Challenge
Harm or Not? Rapid-fire Challenge
Week 2, Day 2
Short Film: “Separation Between Church and State” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Whose Job Is It? (Church or State?)
Week 2, Day 3
You’re the Judge! 2
Week 2, Day 4
Quiz 1 • Quiz 1 Blank Template
Week 2, Day 5
Build a Free Society
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 1
Week 3, Day 1
Crossword Puzzle 2
Week 3, Day 2
Breaking News! 1: Drunk Driver Found Guilty
Word Search 1
Week 3, Day 3
Obey or Refuse? Decision Line
Press Conference: Ask the Christian
Week 3, Day 4
Government Tic-Tac-Toe
Quiz 2 • Quiz 2 Blank Template
Week 3, Day 5
Build a Government
Who Put Them There?
Week 4, Day 1
Angel Or Sinner? Too-Big, Too-Little Government
Week 4, Day 2
Article: “Democracy Is Not the Same Thing as Freedom”
The Bible and the Rule of Law (Ancient Greece)
Week 4, Day 3
Article: “It Started With Plato”
Week 4, Day 4
Short Film: “Are We Rome Yet?” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 4, Day 5
Quiz 3 • Quiz 3 Blank Template
Short Film: “How a Free Republic Becomes a Tyrannical Empire” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 5, Day 1
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 2
Week 5, Day 2
Test 1 • Test 1 Blank Template
Week 5, Day 3
Angel or Sinner? Too-Big, Too-Little Government 2
Renaissance Men
Week 5, Day 4
Crossword Puzzle 3
Week 5, Day 5
Build a Government Without Creating a Tyrant
Enlightenment Survivor
Week 6, Day 1
Government Pictionary 1
Week 6, Day 2
Circuit Rider Court
Week 6, Day 3
Quiz 4 • Quiz 4 Blank Template
Short Film: “The British House of Commons” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 6, Day 4
Horseback Justice
Week 6, Day 5
Suspend It or Not? (Habeas Corpus)
Week 7, Day 1
Crossword Puzzle 4
Week 7, Day 2
Save the Nation! Government Mix-up Game
Short Film: “Why the Founders Did Not Want a Democracy” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 7, Day 3
Hangman 1
Week 7, Day 4
Test 2 • Test 2 Blank Template
Week 7, Day 5
Christian Persecution During The American Revolution
Week 8, Day 1
Connect Four 1
Week 8, Day 2
The Officeholder Test
Week 8, Day 3
Is This State a Nation?
Week 8, Day 4
Founding a Free State, Part 1
Word Search 2
Week 8, Day 5
Quiz 5 • Quiz 5 Blank Template
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 3
Week 9, Day 1
Choose a Constitution!
Week 9, Day 2
Founding a Free State, Part 2
Week 9, Day 3
Short Film: “Why the Articles of Confederation Were Actually a Success” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 9, Day 4
Article: “Did the Articles of Confederation Fail? Probably Not”
Week 9, Day 5
Federalist or Antifederalist?
Week 10, Day 1
Jeopardy! Game 1: Jeopardy! Round • Double Jeopardy!/Final Jeopardy! Round
Week 10, Day 2
Hidden Consequences: Patrick Henry’s Warning
Week 10, Day 3
Quiz 6 • Quiz 6 Blank Template
Crossword Puzzle 5
Week 10, Day 4
Antifederalist Alarm Bells
Short Film: “The Anti-federalists” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 10, Day 5
Government Pictionary 2
Week 11, Day 1
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 4
Week 11, Day 2
BREAKING NEWS! Governor Closes State
Interpretation Showdown, Part 1
Week 11, Day 3
Article: “The Prophetic Antifederalists”
Constitution Translator
Week 11, Day 4
Test 3 • Test 3 Blank Template
Week 11, Day 5
30,000 or Bust!
“General Welfare” Sales Pitch
Week 12, Day 1
Interpretation Showdown, Part 2
Week 12, Day 2
Execute or Refuse?
Short Film: “What Does Article II Say About the Powers of the President?” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 12, Day 3
Let’s Fix the Supreme Court!
Week 12, Day 4
Short Film: “The Popular Vote vs. the Electoral College” (Film • Discussion Guide)
The Big-City Problem: The Electoral College
Week 12, Day 5
Hangman 2
Week 13, Day 1
Jeopardy! Game 2: Jeopardy! Round • Double Jeopardy!/Final Jeopardy Round
Week 13, Day 2
Crossword Puzzle 6
Week 13, Day 3
Pursuance or Pretend (The “Supremacy” Clause”)
Quiz 7 • Quiz 7 Blank Template
Week 13, Day 4
Article: “The Bill of Rights: The Only Good Part of the Constitution”
Henry vs. Hamilton: A Founders Face-off (The Bill of Rights)
Week 13, Day 5
Newspaper Headline and Story Writing Activity (The Supreme Court)
Short Films: “Thomas Jefferson on the General Welfare Clause” • “What the General Welfare Clause Actually Meant” • Discussion Guide
Week 14, Day 2
Connect Four 2
Week 14, Day 3
Constitutional Dominoes (Bill of Rights “Incorporation”)
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 5
Week 14, Day 4
First Amendment Freedom Filter
Week 14, Day 5
Quiz 8 • Quiz 8 Blank Template
Short Film: “The Incorporated Bill of Rights and Federalism” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Washington’s Warning (Free Speech)
Week 15, Day 1
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 15, Day 2
Government Pictionary 3
Week 15, Day 3
Test 4 • Test 4 Blank Template
Week 15, 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 Both
Week 15, Day 5
Article: “The Second Amendment Has No Exceptions”
Short Film: “Politicians and the Second Amendment, Part 2” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 16, Day 1
Fourth Amendment Investigator
Search Warrant Showdown
Week 16, Day 2
The Fourth Amendment Evidence Dilemma
Short Film: “What Is the Exclusionary Rule?” (Fourth Amendment)
Short Film: “Five Exceptions to the Exclusionary Rule” (Fourth Amendment)
Discussion Guide for Both Films
Week 16, Day 3
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
Week 16, Day 4
Word Search 3
Week 16, Day 5
Sixth Amendment Survival Draft
Week 17, Day 1
Sixth Amendment Rescue Mission
Week 17, Day 2
Quiz 9 • Quiz 9 Blank Template
Hangman 3
Week 17, Day 3
Jury Duty – First Amendment Cases
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 6 (Articles II & III)
Week 17, Day 4
Short Film: “Pulled Over and Robbed: How Police Take Money from Innocent People” (Civil Asset Forfeiture) (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 17, Day 5
Bail, Fines, and Punishment: Eighth Amendment Challenges
Short Film: “Ron Paul Explains the General Welfare Clause”
Week 18, Day 1
Crossword Puzzle 8
Week 18, Day 2
Article: “The Tenth Amendment Is Always the Right Answer”
Short Film: “Obamacare and the Tenth Amendment” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 18, Day 3
Presidential Power Audit
Word Search 4
Week 18, Day 4
Connect Four 3
Week 18, Day 5
Quiz 10 • Quiz 10 Blank Template
Short Film: “Chisholm v. Georgia in a Nutshell” (Film • Discussion Guide)
“Tenth Amendment. I Said, ‘The Tenth Amendment.'”
Week 19, Day 1
Short Film: “The Secretary of Education Contradicts Herself [Tenth Amendment]” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Which Amendment Was Violated?
Week 19, Day 2
Test 5 • Test 5 Blank Template
Constitutional Loophole Lab
Week 19, Day 3
Word Search 5
Week 19, Day 4
Article: “Why Are There Still Any Foreign Interventionists?”
Washington and John Quincy Adams: Stay Out or Step In?
Week 19, Day 5
Government Pictionary 4
Week 20, Day 1
Selling Monster Hunts
Week 20, Day 2
Hangman 4
Week 20, Day 3
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 7
Week 20, Day 4
Jeopardy! Game 3: Jeopardy! Round • Double Jeopardy!/Final Jeopardy! Round
Week 20, Day 5
Hamilton’s Handout Hustle
Week 21, Day 1
Fix the Court!
Week 21, Day 2
Operation Jury Nullification
Week 21, Day 3
Crossword Puzzle 9
Week 21, Day 4
Quiz 11 • Quiz 11 Blank Template
Fighting Fraud or Foisting Favoritism? (The “Commerce Clause”)
Week 21, Day 5
Connect Four 4
Week 22, Day 1
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 22, Day 3
Short Film: “Rep. Thomas Massie Rips Democrats and Republicans on Spending” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Article: “America Has a Uniparty System”
Week 22, Day 4
Foreign Intervention/Sedition Act Children’s Story
Week 23, Day 1
Quiz 12 • Quiz 12 Blank Template
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 8
Week 23, Day 2
You’re the Judge! 3
Week 23, Day 3
Test 6 • Test 6 Blank Template
Word Search 6
Week 23, Day 4
Jeopardy! Game 4: Jeopardy! Round • Double Jeopardy!/Final Jeopardy! Round
Week 23, Day 5
The “Implied Powers” Domino Disaster
Short Film: “McCulloch v. Maryland: The Debate About Enumerated Powers” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 24, Day 1
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 24, Day 2
Tariff Spin Doctors
Week 24, Day 3
Short Film: “Are Protective Tariffs Constitutional?” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Presidential Promise Probe
Week 24, Day 4
Hangman 5
Week 24, Day 5
Connect Four 5
Week 25, Day 1
Quiz 13 • Quiz 13 Blank Template
Government Pictionary 5
Week 25, Day 2
Short Film: “Is Secession Legal?”
Short Film: “Ron Paul Right, Thought Controllers Wrong, on Secession”
Discussion Guide for Both Films
Week 25, Day 3
Crossword Puzzle 10
Week 25, Day 4
Operation Peaceable Departure
Week 25, Day 5
Historical Spin Room
Week 26, Day 1
Jeopardy! Game 5: Jeopardy! Round • Double Jeopardy!/Final Jeopardy! Round
Week 26, Day 2
Reconstruction Repair Crew
Week 26, Day 3
Test 7 • Test 7 Blank Template
Article: “The Consolidation of State Power via Reconstruction”
Week 26, Day 4
Crazy Commerce Clause Conclusions
Week 26, Day 5
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 9
Week 27, Day 1
Quiz 14 • Quiz 14 Blank Template
Crossword Puzzle 11
Week 27, Day 2
Step by Step: The Income Tax Takeover
Week 27, Day 3
Short Film: “The Seventeenth Amendment” (Film • Discussion Guide)
States Steering Senators
Week 27, Day 4
Connect Four 6
Week 27, Day 5
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 28, Day 1
Voicing Vehement Vetoes
Word Search 7
Week 28, Day 2
The Lusitania Propaganda Pitch
Week 28, Day 3
Quiz 15 • Quiz 15 Blank Template
Hangman 6
Week 28, Day 4
Shouting “Fire!” and Speaking Truth
Week 28, Day 5
Article: “The Federal Reserve Killed My Grandfather”
Short Film: “Ron Paul – ‘End the Fed’ Speech, 25 February 2009” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 29, Day 1
The Bureau of Things That Don’t Need a Bureau
Week 29, Day 2
Quiz 16 • Quiz 16 Blank Template
Government Pictionary 6
Week 29, Day 3
Jeopardy! Game 6: Jeopardy! Round • Double Jeopardy!/Final Jeopardy! Round
Week 29, Day 4
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 10
Week 29, Day 5
Test 8 • Test 8 Blank Template
Word Search 8
Week 30, Day 1
Crossword Puzzle 12
Week 30, Day 2
Short Film: “The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and New Deal” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 30, Day 3
Quiz 17 • Quiz 17 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
Week 30, Day 5
Connect Four 7
Week 31, Day 1
Exaction Extraction
Exaction Retraction
Week 31, Day 2
Article: “The Fallacy of ‘Public’ Education”
Short Film: “There Is No Role for the Government in Education” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 31, Day 3
Quiz 18 • Quiz 18 Blank Template
Hangman 7
Week 31, Day 4
BREAKING NEWS! Education Articles
Week 31, Day 5
Government Pictionary 7
Week 32, Day 1
Government Through Early Christian Eyes
Week 32, Day 2
Article: “Dispatch the War Department”
Short Film: “Second Amendment: To Prevent the Greatest Danger to Liberty” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 32, Day 3
Founding Father War Tweets and Replies
Week 32, Day 4
Test 9 • Test 9 Blank Template
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 11
Week 32, Day 5
Jeopardy! Game 7: Jeopardy! Round • Double Jeopardy!/Final Jeopardy! Round
Week 33, Day 1
Crossword Puzzle 13
Week 33, Day 2
Presidential Veto Challenge
Week 33, Day 3
Presidential Pardon Project
Week 33, Day 4
Quiz 19 • Quiz 19 Blank Template
Chapter X for Five-Year-Olds
Week 33, Day 5
Connect Four 8
Week 34, Day 1
The Classroom Battlefield: School Prayer vs. Private Speech
Week 34, Day 2
Film: “Jack Abramoff: The Lobbyist’s Playbook” (Film • Discussion Guide)
Week 34, Day 3
Hangman 8
Week 34, Day 4
Word Search 9
Week 34, Day 5
Government Pictionary 8
Week 35, Day 1
Jeopardy! Game 8: Jeopardy! Round • Double Jeopardy!/Final Jeopardy! Round
Week 35, Day 2
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 35, Day 3
HELP WANTED: Vice President
Week 35, Day 4
Quiz 20 • Quiz 20 Blank Template
Snappy Answers to Government Questions 12
You’re the Judge! 4 (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments)
Week 35, Day 5
Create a Wasteful Government Program
Week 36, Day 1
Connect Four 9
Week 36, Day 2
Giant American Government Crossword Puzzle
Week 36, Day 3
Separation of Powers Showdown
Government Grab & Gaslight
Word Search 10
Week 36, Day 4
Test 10 (Final) • Test 10 Blank Template
Week 36, Day 5
Government Pictionary 9
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