Using a chart showing checks and balances, explain how one branch of government can limit the power of others. 4.4.4

Links verified 7/4/2013

1. The Balance of Government: Our Government's Seesaw - This explanation is posted by the Truman Presidential Museum and Library. The page is followed by a worksheet to print.
2. Checks and Balances - this site (from the Social Studies Help Center) has a very good chart halfway down the page
3. Checks and Balances - a colorful page from Kids.net
4. Constitution: Checks and Balances - from Congress for Kids
5. Constitutional Topic: Checks and Balances - from Constitution for Kids
6. Charts - (Graphic Organizers to make charts)
   1. Concept Maps Explained - Concept maps and story webs are visual ways to structure ideas. (sample included) [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   2. Education World Templates - seventeen graphic organizers to download and print or edit
   3. Essay Map - The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think
   4. Five main types of organizers - links showing examples of many types
   5. Graphic Organizer Links - links to a large number of graphic organizers provided by Vermilion Parish School Board in Abbeville, LA - Second page of links from the same school system
   6. Graphic Organizer Templates - Use these Graphic Organizer templates with your class using a given story.
   7. Graphic Organizers - from Enchanted Learning
   8. Graphic Organizers from Education Place - 38 graphic organizers to print, all in pdf format
   9. Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers - Three dozen different templates are available at this site. Click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once you've downloaded an organizer, type your comments and print it.
   10. Index of Graphic Organizers - from Inspiration
   11. Instructions on how to use Excel to create a graphic organizer
   12. Interactive Graphic Organizers Sampler - This series of thinking tools covers a range of activities. These tools let you actively construct, examine, and modify your ideas. Currently seven of the planned seventeen thinking tools are available; look for the titles in green on the left.
   13. Teaching Tips: Graphic Organizers - A list of links from eMINTS and The Curators of the University of Missouri [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   14. Using Graphic Organizers - Youthlearn [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
   15. Venn Diagram, 2 Circles - This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically. Student Interactive from Read/Write/Think

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