How Does A Bill Become A Law?

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Go over the How Does A Bill Become A Law slideshow.
• Explain each slide with examples.

Guided Practice

• Ask your students to get into groups of four.
• Ask each group to write a bill that they want to change into a law.
• Divide the class into three groups. The three groups should be senators, representatives, and committee members.
• Assign a speaker of the house and play the role of president yourself.
• Go through the steps of how to change a bill into a law for one of the bills using the three groups.
• After all the steps have been completed, change the roles of your students and repeat the process for the second bill.
• Have your students repeat the activities and switch roles until all bills have been debated.
• After all bills have been debated, go over the ones that passed and the ones that did not.

Independent working time

• Ask your students to answer the questions on the How Does a Bill Become a Law: Reflection worksheet.