Research Guides: United States Constitution Day: Kids Zone

DVDs for Children

Constitution Day
Call Number: UHCL Curriculum Library Media 394.264 Con 2010
Learn how the U.S. Constitiution, a document written and signed more than 200 years age, outlines how our government works and identifies our rights as citizens of the United States. Take a closer look at the language of the Constitution, and think about what "We the people" and the rest of the preamble means.
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution
Call Number: UHCL Curriculum Library Media 342.7302 Shh 1989
Describes how the Constitution came to be written and ratified. Also includes the full text of the document produced by the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
United States Constitution
Call Number: UHCL Media Collection KF4541.Z9 U56 2004
Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include the story of the Constitution, the lives of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and the Great Seal of the United States.
We the kids the preamble to the Constitution of the United States
Call Number: UHCL Media Collection KF4550.Z9 W4 2002
An illustrated preamble to the Constitution of the United States including a live action introduction and explanation of the preamble by David Catrow.
We the People
Call Number: Juvenile Collection 342.7302 Spi 2014
A celebration of the Constitution and its framers includes an illustrated Preamble, an explanation of the Constitution's significance, the story of its ratification, and a reproduction of the original document.

Online Videos

Learning Websites

Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government
Designed to inform students, parents, and educators about the Federal Government.
Commemorating Constitution Day and Citizenship Day
The U.S. Department of Education provides a list of links to Web sites that contain materials that can be publicly accessed for general use or for use as teaching materials in the classroom.
Constitution USA: Teaching the Constitution
Produced by PBS. Constitution USA is hosted by Peter Sagal. Over the course of the four-hour series, Sagal hits the road to find out where the Constitution lives, how it works, and how it unites us as a nation.
iCivics
iCivics champions equitable, non-partisan civic education so that the practice of democracy is learned by each new generation. We work to inspire life-long civic engagement by providing high quality and engaging civics resources to teachers and students across our nation.
National Constitution Center
Interactive learning tools, lesson plans, and other items that engage students in fundamental questions about the United States Constitution and its relevance to their lives.
Teaching Six Big Ideas in the Constitution
This lesson engages students in a study of the Constitution to learn the significance of "Six Big Ideas" contained in it. Students analyze the text of the Constitution in a variety of ways, examine primary sources to identify their relationship to its central ideas and debate the core constitutional principles as they relate to today's political issues.
We the Civic Kids
The National Constitution Center is pleased to introduce our new Civics in Literature initiative, a brand new program designed to enhance and build upon current civic education curriculum through children’s literature and other famous historical texts. Help your students build their basic civic knowledge and understand their role as active citizens.