US Constitution Lesson: The Constitutional Convention, Grades 6-8

Three schools share one student council. School A has 900 students and Schools B and C have 150 each. How should the seats be shared? That is the warm-up, and it is the same fight the delegates had in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787: should every state get the same say, or should a state's say depend on its population?

What's inside

• 16 slides, with speaker notes on all 16
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student reading, 1 page, "A Summer of Compromise"
• Primary-source page, 1 page: 5 documents: two Virginia Plan resolutions, a small-state delegate and the Constitution's House and Senate clauses (Documents A to E)
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• Print-all PDF, 7 pages (lesson plan, reading, primary-source page, worksheet and answer key in one file)

Answer key included

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