Engaging Congress

Engaging Congress is a game that uses primary source documents, photographs, political cartoons, maps, and other items to explore the challenges of sustaining representative democracy in our complex and diverse nation today.

Features:

- Introductory Video

- Theme-based Stories

- Primary Source Gallery

- Primary Source Analysis

- Trivia Challenge

- Assessment Tools

- Mini-games...

...More

Engaging Congress content is divided into five thematic stories:

- More Equal Than Others (Influencing the Political Process)

- Laws and Sausages (Separation of Powers)

- Vote Early, Vote Often (Voting Rights)

- A Balancing Act (The Federal Budget)

- Fair is not Always Equal (Federalism and States' Rights)

The accompanying Engaging Congress website (engagingcongress.org) contains many additional resources including:

- The Teacher Toolbox

- Curriculum Guide

- Correlation of content with Social Studies standards

- Bank of multiple-choice and discussion assessment questions

- Links to Library of Congress primary source analysis guides

- Downloadable PDFs and PNGs of all primary source documents

- And more.

引人入胜的国会是使用主源文件，照片，政治漫画，地图等物品，探索在我们今天的复杂和多元化的国家维持代议制民主的挑战游戏。

特征：

- 介绍视频

- 主题式故事

- 主要来源图库

- 主要来源分析

- 琐事挑战

- 评估工具

- 迷你游戏...

...更多

引人入胜的国会内容分为五个专题报道：

- 更平等比其他（影响政治进程）

- 法律和香肠（三权分立）

- 早期投票，投票经常有（投票权）

- 一个平衡的行为（联邦预算）

- 公平并不总是等于（联邦制和国家的权利）

所附引人入胜的大会网站（engagingcongress.org）包含了许多额外的资源，包括：

- 在教师工具箱

- 课程指引

- 内容相关与社会研究标准

- 银行多项选择题和讨论评估问题的

- 链接到美国国会图书馆主要来源分析指南

- 可下载的PDF文件和所有主源文档的PNG图片

- 和更多。