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The Legislative Branch: PowerPoint Option Directions: For this assignment, I’ve outlined what I want you to include on each slide of your PowerPoint. Follow the websites and watch the videos assigned on each slide to gather your research and answer the questions. Email me your finished product. Slide 1:Your name, “Legislative Branch Scavenger Hunt”, a US patriotic symbolSlide 2:Find a picture of the building the United States Congress works in. What is this building called?Slide 3: Use this website () to answer the following questions: How many houses/chambers are there in the US Congress? What are they called? Which house does every state have the same number of representatives and which house do states have a different number based on population? Slide 4:Use this website () and tell me: Who holds more seats in the House? (The Republicans or Democrats) Who holds more seats in the Senate? (The Republicans or Democrats)THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESSlide 5:Use this website () to answer the following questions about The House of Representatives. (Scroll down to the bottom and click on “Representatives”)How many members are there in the House of Representatives? Find a picture of their chamber.What are the qualifications to be a member of the House? Do you know anyone who fits these qualifications? If so, who?When you’re elected to the House, how long is your term? (In other words, how many years will you serve before you’re up for reelection?)Slide 6:Use this website () to answer the following questions about the state of Georgia in the House. (Click on “G” to get to Georgia)How many representatives does GA get in the House? Include a picture of the state divided into those districts How many of Georgia’s representatives are Democrats? How many are Republicans?Slide 7:Every 10 years, a national census is taken. The census is a population count. This year is a census year. Go to the census website () and tell me 3 things you learned from it. Slide 8: Use this website () to see who represents YOU in the House of Representatives. Give me their name and what political party they belong to (Republican or Democrat)Go to your representative’s website and look around a bit. Tell me something interesting you found. Slide 9:Go here () to find out more about the leaders in the House by answering the questions below: What is the title of the leader of the House of Representatives? Who currently holds that position? Find a picture of the person Go to her twitter page and summarize or copy/paste a current tweet and explain what it’s about THE SENATESlide 10: Use google to answer the following question: How many members are there in the Senate? Find a picture of the Seal of the United States Senate.Slide 11: Use this website () and tell me: How many Senators does each state get? Who are Georgia’s senators? What political party do they belong to? Find their picturesSlide 12: Use this website () to answer the following questions about the Senate:What are the qualifications to be a Senator? How are these qualifications similar/different from the House? If you’re elected to the Senate, how long is your term? (Basically, how many years will you serve until you’re up for reelection?) Slide 13: Use this website () to learn more about the leaders in the Senate: Who are the constitutionally mandated officers of the US Senate? What political party do they belong to?Find their pictures Slide 14: Use the same website from the previous slide () to find our more about the party leaders in the Senate. Who is the republican leader of the Senate? Find a picture. Go to this person’s twitter page and summarize or copy/paste a current tweet and explain what it’s about Who is the democratic leader in the senate? Find a picture. Go to this person’s twitter page and summarize or copy/paste a current tweet and explain what it’s about Congressional Powers, Influences, and Making LawsSlide 15: Watch the following Crash Course video on differences between the House and the Senate, and answering the following questions: () What is the main job of Congress?What are a few powers granted to JUST the House? What are a few powers granted to JUST the Senate? Tell me something else you found interesting that you learned from the video Slide 16: Watch this School House Rock video on how a bill becomes a law and answer the following questions: ()True or false: a bill must pass through both houses (the House and the Senate) on the way to becoming a bill True or false: the president can either veto or sign a bill into law Slide 17: Most of the work done on bills takes place in committees. Go to this website () to look at the committees in the House of Representatives and answer the questions: How many committees are there in the House? Click on one that’s interesting to you. Who’s the leader? Tell me something interesting you found about that committee from the website Now to the same for the Senate. Go to many committees are there in the Senate? Click on one that’s interesting to you. Who’s the leader? Tell me something interesting you found about that committee from the website Slide 18: Watch this video on the factors that influence Congress: () and summarize how each of the following influence Congress: Constituents (the name given to the voters an elected official represents)Interest Groups Political Parties Slide 19: (Bonus) Watch this video on interest groups () and this one on lobbyists (). Explain what an interest group and lobbyist is, why they exist, and some of the pros and cons. What are you opinions on lobbyists and interest groups? ................
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