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2003
This site is full of information about U.S. Presidents and all aspects of the government.
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Finalist
2000
Kids making websites will need to understand why copyrights, trademarks and licenses are important. Counterfeiters target kids. Counterfeit collectables make copyrights an everyday topic for kids. We have lots of general information, interviews with artists and publishers, and advice from webmasters on a variety of educational websites. There are personal stories that encourage kids to write for permission for images they would like. There are ideas and tips for getting permission. The site features an interview with the director of the National Digital Library as well as a picture tour of the Library of Congress. There are class activities such as class discussion topics and games that utilize the vocabulary on the site. Art rights and wrongs is an especially important topic in the digital age.
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Winner
1996
If you don't know your habeas corpus from your voir dire, take a closer look at the American justice system at this Web page. Follow a mysterious fictional murder case through the court system as you learn all about grand juries, indictments, and plea bargains. Examine famous Supreme Court decisions and consult the Glossary for the Baffled whenever the legalese becomes too much. This is an excellent, informative site.
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Winner
1996
Teen Court is a program that gives youth offenders the chance to clear their records. In order to participate teens must admit to their guilt and agree to a sentence to be set by a community of their peers. The sentence is generally in hours of community service. Here is how it works, and how to set up a program in your community.
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2008
Our website is a current events site that enlightens the outside world to Hawaii, noting that paradise is not always paradise.
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2007
This website was made so young citizens had another website to look at for information on voting. Also there are links that can help gt them registered to vote in their state. It also gives them some history of voting in the United States.
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2006
Our website is a basic guide for learning and teaching three points in history including the Articles of Confederation, Convention and Compromise, and A New Plan of Government. These points fall into the topic of A More Perfect Union. The website includes Do Nows, Notes, Homeworks, Quizzes, a Unit Test, and jeopardy.
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2004
Our group was trying to inform our readers about the branches of service for the United States of America
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2003
Our country would not exist if not for laws. Laws keep the order within our country, and signify the basic principles and ideals that govern our everyday lives. Enter this site to learn more about the laws in the United States.
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2003
Welcome to our ThinkQuest, politics web page. This page is based on giving kids information on, welfare, weapons, separation of church and state, homeland security, and immigrants. We hope you enjoy our website.
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2003
When people think of campaigns, they think of annoying phone calls, ruthless television ads, and endless mudslinging. But what really goes on inside a campaign? What happens inside those conference rooms and offices? We researched what a political campaign really is. We researched everything that goes on in the war rooms and everything that goes on with volunteers. How does a campaign tick? Find out in The Trail.
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2002
This site is about the US Justice system. It has info on the courts, FBI, DEA, etc. It includes quizzes, Flash animation, and other cool stuff.
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2001
Have you ever wondered how your city government works? Our site will show you all about city government in our city of San Antonio, Texas. We have included the departments within our city as well as information about our city leaders. Learn about what you must know to become a city leader and take a quiz to test your knowledge.
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2001
We created a website that explores our election system, the last election that drove our parents nuts, the butterfly ballot and the electoral system.
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2001
Our Government describes the branches of the United States Government.
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2001
Visitors to our website will learn about how the Electoral College works. There will be information on the 1876 and 2000 presidential elections. They will view maps and play interactive games in order to help understand how the United States elects its president. We have also included charts which show how many electors each state is entitled to have.
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Finalist
2001
The Three Branches of Government provides visitors with the opportunity to learn about the US Government. Let our 'Tree of Government' be your guide to learn about the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branches. Visitors are encouraged to explore all areas of the site and challenge themselves by taking one of the three interactive trivia tests. Overall, you will learn how the Constitution created our three branches, the composition of our current leadership and how the US Government works together for the good of the people.
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2001
Have you ever wondered how the U.S. Government works? At this site you will learn about the check and balance system of the three branches of government . You will also learn information about the history of the United States government. You will find games, timelines, and pictures.
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2000
The Cyber United Nations provides information about the United Nations, such as the organisation's history and how it funcitons, and also offers the user a chance to take part in a debate with other participants.
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2000
E-Diplomacy is a site that provides extensive information on an array of topics spanning the subject of Diplomacy. The site offers information about the U.S. State Department, U.S. relations with other areas around the globe, histories of those areas, as well as essays from various foreign affiars commentators form around the world. In addition, E-Diplomacy includes current news from around the world, as well as a feature that allows a text search to be conducted on both past and present U.S. treaties (The site contains the text and a brief description of major particularly significant U.S. treaties.)To stimulate user participation in the site, E-Diplomacy also includes a message board and an opinion poll.
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2000
Our web site is about the law. And we broke it into five different sections. One section is our time line; the time line will give you a brief history of the past 4,000 years. Another part of our web site is famous lawyers and cases. The famous lawyers and cases will give you a brief description of different lawyers and cases. The "did you know" page will give you different questions from our web site. Our last section Silly Laws and Lawyer Jokes will tell you some brief Jokes and some silly laws.
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2000
Our website contains interesting information on the federal government. It includes information on the legislative, executive and judicial branches. We also have an educational game. We hope our website will help you understand more about the federal government.
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1999
America is governed under a democratic system that may be considered among the best in the world. Successfully implemented, democracy serves the needs of all citizens well. Unfortunately, a variety of factors prevent the American implementation of democracy from being as efficacious as possible. While consensus on what exactly these factors are is unlikely, a clear argument can be made for their existence. General apathy among the electorate, for example, has led to low voter turnout, in comparison with other democratic countries, which has created a governing body that is not fully representative of the citizenry. Special interest groups sometimes prevent congress from acting upon the wishes of the majority. Others argue that a lack of ethics has permeated politics. Why is it that most people have not acted upon these problems? One convincing explanation is that citizens are not well enough informed about the workings of our government and the hurdles which it faces. Also, some people may not feel that the government has much impact upon their daily lives, and thus may not care. Educating the public about democracy and perceived hurdles to its effectiveness could help revitalize interest among the public. Our entry's aim is to educate the public regarding democracy. basic elements of democracy are be discussed an emphasis would is placed on the potential problems democracy faces solutions from multiple viewpoints are examined various sociologists' views on government are discussed
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1999
The" F.B.I " Site takes student to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. You are invited to learn about the Bureau and solve a mystery that was created by the ThinkQuest Jr. team. You will learn some history, and about, J. Edgar Hoover, who ran the bureau for 48 years. You will also find out information first hand from a special agent.
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1999
Our entry teaches how law enforcement agencies use science to solve crimes. The website focuses on fingerprinting and FBI.
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1999
The Think Quest entry: Impeachment, is an informative and interactive web page that was designed to give its audiences the full desription and meaning behind "Impeachment", which most children and adults lack knowledge of. This web site contains critera dating back to the development of the U.S. Constitution where the audience will learn how the methods of Impeachment have changed and developed over hundreds of years. They will explore the process of Impeachment and how it works, learn a great deal about each individual that was ever impeached in America's history, and pick-up a thing or two about the Constitution with our massive outline. Unlike most people, they will be given their chance to give their opinions on impeachment at our "Public Debates" page, view the previous opinions of other students and peers, and will have a chance to test their knowledge at the end of the course with our 25-question print out test(which involves the audience to search for the answers to the problems they missed at our site; when the test is completed, or they can just e-mail us for a sheet of answers)!!
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1999
The development of this entry was constructed with questions that each team member wanted to know about the impeachment process. Each question was researched on the web. Test items were developed for each index question. The test items included skills such as drawing conclusions, comprehension, sequencing, creative writing, and facts and opinions. To entertain students while using this site a scavenger hunt activity and word search puzzle was developed. Students that use this site will meet our educational objectives which are (1) students knowledge of the impeachment process will increase (2) the use of the world wide web will be implemented into instruction (3) the knowledge of the United States democracy will increase.
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1999
We want to show what the Swiss governement is. Many people say that the government in Switzerland is too difficult to understand. So we wanted to refute this. We had a lot of work but the important things were that we had fun and we learned something new.
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1999
The Government for Kids webpage will teach elementary students about the United States government. Students can learn about why we have laws, the branches of government, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and more. We also have some fun activities to help students learn.
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1999
The objective of this team was to make the best US History site out there.
After 1 week of searching the entire net we came up with a list of semi-good sites. We looked at what they had to offer to students and determined that it wasn't enough. This team's US History sites will help all High School students taking the AP US History Class to not only do exceptionally well but also to get the top score on the National test.
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1998
Dripping blood and rotating skulls "welcome" you to this site on the controversial subject of capital punishment, or the right of the government to take a human life. Available in both English and Italian, explore the history of the death penalty from ancient times to the present. There is a gruesome section on methods applied and a collection of movies, books, and lyrics about this topic. Should the death penalty be illegal? What do you think?
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1998
The purpose of the site is to give examples of the founders of democracy from an intermediate child's point of view, also to allow the expression of democracy through student government. Objectives: 1. Users will learn information about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. 2. Users will see examples of student government using democracy and representative government. 3. Users will learn about places and symbols of democracy. 4. Users will find links to more information about democracy and founders of democracy. 5. Users can respond and post their views on democracy and student government.
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1998
Want to be a citizen of the United States of America? Here's how. This page provides all of the information that you need to study before taking your citizenship exam. It also provides links to various levels of the American government. This could be a big help to teachers when doing a citizenship unit. This site is in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
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1998
What's the main job of a U.S citizen? It's voting! Learn about this responsibility, and how you can get involved with government and world issues. Ever heard of NGOs? That stands for Non-Governmental Organizations, and there's a NGO for almost any topic you can imagine: animal rights, racial equality, even better math education in schools. Student government may also interest you. This site lists many links which will help you get started.
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1997
Quick! Which amendment once banned the sale of alcohol in the U.S.? This searchable introduction to the U.S. Constitution will tell you, plus which amendment reversed the ban. The site includes an annotated text of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the history of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, a description of landmark Supreme Court cases, and more. Also, see how the amendment process has dealt with past issues and may be used to handle current controversies.
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1997
The historical U.S. Supreme Court civil rights case of Brown vs. the Board of Education is discussed here. A history of the case, how it came to be and how it affects us today is covered. Also included is a background on the rights of blacks, beginning with slavery, and some other court cases such as Plessey vs. Ferguson. Links to other sites on these topics finish the site.
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1997
"Political Paul" lends his commentary to this very complete and organized site containing a huge amount of information about the different branches and organization of the United States government. If you want to know about the duties of the President or Vice President, the constitutional powers of the Senate or House of Representatives, or even "Weird Facts about the White House and the people who have lived there," this is the place to look.
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1997
Think students should have more control over what happens at their school? This site is devoted to helping plan Student Governance Summits and to encourage students to participate both in school government and state government. A great collection of links goes out to college sites, multicultural links, and sites devoted solely to student government issues. Graphically appealing without being glitzy, both student officers and students of government will find it useful.
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