Projects!

Use the websites listed at this website to try the projects below.

• Pick a cabinet department. Go to its site. Find out who the cabinet member is who heads the department and be ready to tell about the department's work.
• If you had the opportunity to create a cabinet department tell what it would be. Pretend you would be the secretary of that department. Write a speech telling what your department does for the country.
• Write a webpage for kids on a cabinet department explaining its work.
• Write an email to the president, vice-president or first lady with your opinion on a topic.
• Go to the White House site. Write down ten facts you learned about the White House that you didn't know before.
• Go to the POTUS site. Make up a presidential trivia game.
• Make a graph showing which states our presidents have come from.
• Make a pie graph showing the political party each of our presidents represented.
• Email the governor and give your opinion on something pertaining to our state.
• Make a pie graph showing election results from the election year of your choice for a candidate.
• The president and vice-president are elected indirectly through the Electoral College. Debate for the class with a friend why this is and is not a good system for our country.
• Make a pie graph with percentages dividing the federal tax money between departments. Tell why you would give the percentages you would to each.
• Pick a president and go to a webpage about him. Be ready to report ten facts you learned about him.