Asynchronous Teaching- Standard 6-8
Summary
TLDRIn this educational video, Mr. Stewart introduces the topic of laws, regulations, and policies with a humorous anecdote about a city in Georgia that banned eating fried chicken with a fork. He guides viewers through the legislative process, emphasizing the roles of the government branches, particularly the legislative branch's power to legislate. Stewart encourages pre-assessment, platform reading, and a foundational video review before delving into the intricacies of law-making, including the committee process and presidential veto. He concludes with an interactive game to simulate bill passage and an exit ticket for reflection, aiming to deepen understanding of the legislative process.
Takeaways
- 📜 The lesson is about understanding laws, regulations, and policies, with an introduction to the legislative process and the roles of different branches of government.
- 🍗 An amusing example of a law from Georgia in 1916, which made it illegal to eat fried chicken with a fork, is used to illustrate the diversity of laws.
- 🏛️ The legislative branch, specifically Congress, is highlighted as the body responsible for making laws, as granted by the U.S. Constitution.
- 📊 A pre-assessment is suggested to identify the branch of government with law-making power and to define key terms such as 'bill' and 'public policy'.
- 📚 The importance of reviewing the lesson materials and watching the foundational video on laws and regulations is emphasized for better understanding.
- 🤔 The process of a bill becoming a law is detailed, starting from an idea, introduction to a committee, revisions, voting, and potential veto by the President.
- 🏢 The roles and functions of the three branches of government are briefly reviewed, with an emphasis on the legislative branch's law-making authority.
- 📝 Only Congress has the power to repeal a law, while the Supreme Court can declare a law unconstitutional, effectively rendering it invalid.
- 🎮 An interactive game is introduced to simulate the process of a bill becoming a law, allowing participants to represent a district and make decisions.
- 📋 The game's outcome and certificate are important, requiring participants to take screenshots or photos for submission as proof of completion.
- 🤔 Reflecting on the game and considering how it was played is encouraged, along with answering questions related to the experience.
Q & A
What is the main topic of Mr. Stewart's lesson?
-The main topic of Mr. Stewart's lesson is laws, regulations, and policies.
What unusual law did a city in Georgia pass in 1916?
-A city in Georgia passed a law in 1916 stating that it is illegal to eat fried chicken with a fork.
Which branch of government is granted the power to make laws?
-The legislative branch of government is granted the power to make laws.
What is the first step in the process of creating a law?
-The first step in creating a law is having an idea for a law.
Can a bill be introduced in either the House of Representatives or the Senate?
-Yes, a bill can be introduced in either the House of Representatives or the Senate.
What happens to a bill after it is introduced and before it goes to the floor for a vote?
-After a bill is introduced, it goes to a committee where it is researched, discussed, and possibly amended before being sent to the floor for a vote.
What is the special power the president has to reject a bill?
-The president has the power to veto a bill, which is a way to reject it and prevent it from becoming law.
Can the Supreme Court repeal a law?
-The Supreme Court cannot directly repeal a law, but it can declare a law unconstitutional, which effectively renders the law invalid.
Who has the authority to repeal a law?
-Only Congress has the authority to repeal a law by introducing a new bill that addresses the issues in the previous law.
What activity does Mr. Stewart suggest to help understand how a bill becomes a law?
-Mr. Stewart suggests playing a game that simulates the process of a bill becoming a law, where participants choose a district to represent and work through the legislative process.
What is required at the end of the game to complete the activity?
-At the end of the game, participants are required to take screenshots or photos of two screens: the final results of their bill and their certificate, which includes details of the game session.
Outlines
📚 Introduction to Laws, Regulations, and Policies
Mr. Stewart welcomes viewers to a lesson on laws, regulations, and policies. He introduces the topic with a humorous example of a law in Georgia from 1916 prohibiting the use of a fork to eat fried chicken. The lesson aims to cover the roles of government branches, with a pre-assessment quiz on the legislative power. Stewart encourages students to review key terms and definitions, such as 'bill' and 'public policy,' and to watch a foundational video on laws and regulations. He also prompts students to read lesson materials on the platform for a better understanding of the subject matter.
🏛️ The Legislative Process and the Role of Congress
This paragraph delves into the legislative process, starting with the idea for a law and its introduction to a committee, either in the Senate or the House of Representatives. The committee's role is to discuss, research, and potentially amend the bill before voting to accept or reject it. If passed, the bill moves to the other chamber of Congress. The paragraph also explains the president's power to veto a bill and the unique ability of Congress to repeal laws, as neither the president nor the Supreme Court can do so. The Supreme Court, however, can declare a law unconstitutional, effectively rendering it invalid.
🎮 Interactive Learning Through a Bill-Becoming-Law Game
The script introduces an interactive game designed to help students understand the process by which a bill becomes law. Players choose a district to represent and consider demographic factors such as age, city density, income levels, and gender. The game's objective is to gather constituent support for a bill and predict its passage. Upon completion, players receive a certificate and results, which they must screenshot and submit. The paragraph emphasizes the importance of reflecting on the game experience and answering questions about it to consolidate learning.
📝 Conclusion and Encouragement for Further Learning
In conclusion, Mr. Stewart thanks the students for their attention and effort in learning about the legislative process. He expresses excitement to see their game certificates and final results, encouraging them to enjoy the learning experience. He also invites students to suggest additional content for future lessons and reminds them to explore provided sources for more information, particularly highlighting a source with amusing state laws and another detailing the law-making process.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Laws
💡Regulations
💡Policies
💡Legislative Branch
💡Constitution
💡Bill
💡Committee
💡Veto
💡Supreme Court
💡Repeal
💡Constituent
💡Game-based Learning
Highlights
Introduction to the lesson on laws, regulations, and policies.
Anecdote about a city in Georgia that passed a law in 1916 making it illegal to eat fried chicken with a fork.
Pre-assessment question about the branch of government with the power to make laws.
Instructions to pause the video and define key terms like 'bill' and 'public policy'.
Emphasis on the importance of reviewing the lesson material and watching the foundational video on laws and regulations.
Review of the roles and functions of the three branches of government in relation to laws.
Explanation of the legislative process starting with an idea and moving through committees to becoming a law.
Clarification that a bill can be introduced in either the House of Representatives or the Senate.
Discussion on the process within a committee, including research, discussion, and voting on a bill.
The potential for a bill to be passed to the other chamber of Congress and the President's options to sign or veto.
Only Congress has the power to repeal a law, not the President or the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court's role in determining the constitutionality of a law.
Suggestion to read more about the legislative process on the provided platform and website.
Activity suggestion to teach or explain the lesson content to someone else to aid in memorization.
Introduction of a game to understand how a bill becomes a law, including choosing a district to represent.
Instructions on capturing screenshots of the game's final results and certificate for submission.
Reflection questions after playing the game to consolidate understanding of the legislative process.
Exit ticket with questions about what should have been included in the lesson and sources for further reading.
Closing remarks expressing gratitude for attention and anticipation for seeing the certificates and results from the activity.
Transcripts
hello everyone mr stewart here it's good
to have you on board
let's get started with our next lesson
our lesson today is on
laws regulation laws regulations and
policies
i'm going to share my screen with you
right away and we'll get started
good to have you back laws regulations
and
policies now if you look at this first
slide you may wonder what on earth does
fried chicken
have to do with laws regulations
and policies well believe it or not
there is a city in georgia
that passed a law back in 1916
that said it's illegal to eat
fried chicken with a fork
can you believe that
in the state of arizona these are weird
laws
because today we're talking about laws
and before we get started with
uh our lesson in particular let's go
ahead and do our pre-assessment tell me
please
which branch of government is granted
the power to make
laws and number two not going to read
them
this lesson because we have a bit to get
through
so you can just pause the video and read
each of these
objectives use a little bit differently
perhaps
and some of these terms you've actually
already gone over
in the last couple of lessons
bill and public policy
so i'm going to choose but if you don't
know these words
i'd like for you to just uh pause for a
moment
and define these words you can use
google or
any dictionary that you have that you
prefer you can use that now
and just make sure you go over these
because these words are in our lesson
for
our review and our lecture
as i mentioned earlier i'd like to
remind you first before going any
further
take a moment and go to the platform
and read the information for this lesson
secondly i'd like for you to make sure
that you
watch this video this video is on
laws and regulations i think it's a
great primer it's a great
foundational video to get you ready for
everything else so please
take a moment to go over this video
and read the information the articles
that are on our
platform for this lesson they will be
very helpful
in helping you grasp to
learn the information
what are you going to do you're going to
watch the video and
you're going to read the information on
our platform very good please do
that now i want you to take a moment now
that you're back welcome back
i want you to take a moment and think
back on our lessons
um in the last few lessons about
the branches of government and public
policy and foreign policy those
different lessons
think about those three branches i know
you recall them
they're here in front of you do you
recall
what the jobs are and the roles and
functions
are of each of these branches of
government
if you don't lucky for you i have taken
the liberty of putting them here for you
are really important but i'm not going
to read them
you can feel free to pause this video
and to read them
at your leisure however i won't do that
this time
this is just a quick review i want you
to know that
this must be very important because i've
used
these same graphics several times
regarding the three
branches of government say right away
oh the legislative branch right because
they
legislate that word legislate they make
laws
so that is very true the constitution
of the united states has granted
congress all powers to legislate if you
take a look
at the blue box on the right of your
screen
article one and section one of the us
constitution revives
that all now we're going to stop for
just a moment
and review what we've just gone over
i want you to not look at the screen but
just take a moment and listen
close your eyes if you must or look away
every law starts with
what what start the law
it starts with an idea that's the first
thing it's an idea
someone has the idea for a law right
and then what happens to that bill
that bill is introduced
to a committee and
that bill where does it start does it
start
uh with the president's desk where does
it start
it starts in the senate or the house of
representatives which one
tricky question huh well actually if you
said either
you're correct it can begin in either
the house of representatives
or in the senate that bill is introduced
to either of them
and then it goes where to committee
what happens in committee remember we
just discussed it
what happens in committee
in committee a small group is there
to research to talk about and to make
changes
to the bill they can vote to accept or
reject
the bill as it is and its changes
before sending it to the floor
of either the house
or the senate very good very very good
and then if the majority vote for
and pass the bill then
what do you predict happens next so for
example
if that bill um was or
if i introduced that bill in the house
of representatives for example if i'm a
congressman
and i introduced this bill in the house
of
representatives and it has gone to
committee
and we've talked about it and we've made
changes
and we've voted on it finally
what happens to it now after everyone
has debated it and it's been voted on
it now goes to the other
chamber of congress right it goes to the
other chamber of congress
right now the president can choose to
sign the bill
or not and of course you recall from a
previous
lesson that the president
has the power to reject
a bill and not make it a law by a
special power called
it begins with the letter v
veto i'm sure most of you got that right
and that's great if you did if you
didn't that's okay
now you'll know what happens then i mean
can
they repeal the law because we just
understood you can change
that bill before it becomes a law but
once it becomes the law
can they repeal that can the president
repeal it
and or can the supreme court repeal it
no not really if you look at your screen
only congress can repeal a law and now
i'll take the opportunity
to remind you to go back to
your platform reading and there's more
information here but i want to just
remind you that
only congress can repeal
a law neither the president nor the
supreme court
can do this now the president
can refuse to enforce
the law and the supreme court cannot
repeal the law but what it can do
if someone challenges the law
and it that challenge comes to the
supreme court
the supreme court can choose to take
that case
and decide if the law
is constitutional or not and if the
supreme court decides
hey this law is not in harmony
with our constitution the law is no
longer valid essentially
so it appears that it's being repealed
but what happens is just not valid so
that's similar to being repealed but
it's not being repealed
only congress itself can repeal it so
congress can then decide
to go back and write another law
congress itself can actually repeal a
law
by introducing a new bill
that addresses the problems in the
previous law
and that can repeal whatever that law
was
i'd like to suggest to you to please go
ahead
and read more about this on your
platform and
at the website at the bottom of your
screen you can
teach your sibling you can teach your
mom or your dad or your grandpa
grandmother
some family member you can just
even if there's no one around what i'd
like to do sometimes
when i'm alone and i'm rehearsing
different things i'm learning
um i'm studying german i've been
studying for a long time actually
sometimes i'll just read aloud to myself
i'll just say
things aloud and try to help myself
remember
so you can do the same thing you can
tell someone or teach someone near you
or if there's no one there
you can simply pause the video for a
moment and go
over this information now of course i've
given you some sample sentences to
help you get started but you don't have
to use these feel free to make new ones
you can do it i believe in you let's go
now some of you i'm certain enjoy
playing games some of you play games a
lot and some of you don't
and for those of you who don't play
games a lot this will be something new
for you and for those of you
who don't like to read a lot but you
rather play games
this is your activity you're going to
play
a game to help you understand
how a bill becomes a law
there we are a bill rather that will
hopefully become a law
so you get to choose a district to
represent
and since i like the city i'm going to
choose a city
and um you'll read everything that's
there for you
just to say time i'm going to just press
through keep going through
you can look at the different
demographics you remember that word
demographics
these are things like age the density of
the city
the income level of the people in your
district and so forth uh even
gender i'm going to
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show you exactly how this is going to
look at the end
this is very important that you stay
with me on this this is really important
that you listen carefully because
at the end of your game you're going to
have
two screens one screen will show you the
final results
i want you to screen shot that
grab the screen or take a photo with
your smartphone
or you can even print it out
even you'll see on my results here
my bill passed i had 68
of the constituent support for the bills
and remember what a constituent is
a constituent is a person where in your
district whom you represent very good
i have a 61 chance
of being reelected to the house that's
pretty good i think
a decent chance of being re-elected and
of course as i mentioned earlier
the the bill that i chose was an energy
bill
and it passed so
you've taken a picture of that one or
screenshot of that one and then you have
a certificate
that certificate tells the date that you
played this game
it tells me your district it tells me
the bill that you
introduced it tells me how many
predictions you got correct in your
survey
it tells me everything we just went over
and
it tells me how much time you spent
on this game you can screen to
take a screenshot of it or you can
simply print it off
and then snap a picture of it and uh
both of those screens need to be
submitted to me
if you don't have one of those you'll
need to play the game again
until you get both of those so be
careful
be on the lookout for that at the end of
the game i
need to have a picture of both screens
how many screens
one no two screens i need to have
a photo of both of those screens your
certificate
and the last one which was your final
results okay
very good at this point
i would like for you to stop for a
moment
and i want you to reflect on the game
that you played
now if you haven't played the game
that's fine you can still pause and just
look over these questions
and then play the game but if you've
already played the game i want you to
stop
and think about how you uh played your
game
think about that and i want you to go
through these questions these questions
will take you no more
than a couple of minutes two to three
minutes playing the game
for example okay and then i'd like to
have you submit that
it's time for our exit ticket and you
have two questions in this lesson the
first question is or something that you
thought should have been in the lesson
but which wasn't and you'd like to share
it with me
please send it to me and i'll be more
than happy to include it in our next
lesson
and drop it on the platform of course
there's some sources here feel free to
go back and check these out
um for those of you who like funny and
weird
things uh the fourth
the fourth source down usa today that
one
is the one that takes you to the weird
laws in every state and if you'll recall
how many states there are
in america how many are there by the way
if you said 50 you're correct that would
mean there's 50
weird laws you get a chance to go over
and
probably laugh at some of them and if
you'd like more reading
you can go to the very first source and
check out
more on how laws are made
guys that was quite a bit we went
through but you made it through
and i'm very happy about that
at this time i'd like to say thanks for
paying attention
and i hope you learned quite a bit
that's all for now
great job i hope that you will enjoy
playing the game and i can't wait to see
your certificates
and your final results from your
activity
see you next time take care ciao
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