Engaging Congress 1.95

Engaging Congress is an educational game that utilizes primary source documents, photographs, political cartoons, maps, and other materials to delve into the complexities of upholding representative democracy in today's diverse nation.

Features:

• Introductory Video
• Theme-based Stories
• Primary Source Gallery
• Primary Source Analysis
• Trivia Challenge
• Assessment Tools
• Mini-games...
• More

The content of Engaging Congress is structured around five thematic stories:

1. More Equal Than Others (Influencing the Political Process)
2. Laws and Sausages (Separation of Powers)
3. Vote Early, Vote Often (Voting Rights)
4. A Balancing Act (The Federal Budget)
5. Fair is not Always Equal (Federalism and States' Rights)

The accompanying Engaging Congress website (engagingcongress.org) offers a plethora of 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