Amending the Constitution

Have students underline the key action in each scenario before choosing an amendment or freedom. Then discuss any answers that differ, using the summary on the page and the answer key.

Complete a flowchart of Article V, then work out how many of 50 states must ratify an amendment. The directions on the page read: Read the text. Write a word or phrase from the bank in each flowchart box. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade The Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with bill of rights and amendments. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

They are freedom of religion, speech, the press, assembly and petition. First Amendment Freedoms has students name the freedom each of five situations shows.

Yes. Speech that threatens to hurt someone is not protected, and neither are false statements that damage a person's good name. People may gather only peacefully, and the First Amendment limits only the government.

Usually the House and the Senate each pass a proposed amendment with a two-thirds vote. Then three fourths of the states must ratify it. Only 27 amendments have been ratified.