Florida Joint Center for Citizenship

How do the political cartoons illustrate big civics ideas?

This activity can be used to introduce big civics concepts or as a review prior to the end-of-course civics assessment.

Students:

• identify the goals and purposes of government as set forth in the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution.
• evaluate the impact political parties have on society, government, or the political system.
• recognize the structure of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
• compare the roles and responsibilities of the three branches of the federal government.
• identify the general powers described in Articles I, II, and III of the U.S. Constitution.
• examine the processes of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
• cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).