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Help young learners become thoughtful, kind, and responsible citizens with this engaging Constitution Day Activities resource for Kindergarten and 1st Grade!
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Constitution Day Activities for Kindergarten: Citizenship, Rules & Rights

Free Constitution Day activities for kindergarten and 1st grade about community, rules, rights and responsibilities, good citizenship and voting.

Suitable for
Kindergarten, 1st Grade
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Learning goals

  • Describe what makes a community
  • Explain why we need rules
  • Tell the difference between rights and responsibilities
  • Identify good citizenship choices
  • Share ideas and vote as a class

Preview pages

What’s included

  • Teacher guide with learning goals, skills, suggested activities and materials
  • What Is a Community? and working-together activities
  • Why Do We Need Rules? with a Good Rule or Not a Good Rule sort
  • My Classroom Rules writing page
  • Rights vs. responsibilities poster and cut-and-paste sort
  • What Makes a Good Citizen? and Citizen Choices scenarios
  • The Constitution Helps People Work Together, We the People vocabulary and Classroom Constitution poster
  • Voting activity, Little Citizen Promise certificate and Little Citizen Badge craft
  • Reflection page, vocabulary match, citizenship sort and student assessment

Materials and preparation

  • Crayons
  • Scissors
  • Glue sticks
  • Pencils
  • Tape or string for the badge craft

Read the teacher guide first and choose the pages for your Constitution Day lesson (September 17) or for your first weeks of classroom rules.

How to use it

  1. Talk about communities: family, class and school, using the community pages.
  2. Discuss why rules help us, then sort good and not-good rules.
  3. Sort rights and responsibilities and act out the Citizen Choices scenarios.
  4. Read the Constitution page, then write your own Classroom Constitution together.
  5. Hold a class vote, make the Little Citizen badges and finish with the reflection page.

Classroom idea

After writing your Classroom Constitution, let every child sign it, just as the signers did, and display it all year.

Adaptations

  • Kindergarten: complete the sorts together on chart paper before children do their own.
  • 1st grade: add a written sentence to the rules and reflection pages.
  • Use the voting activity again for class decisions during the year.

Questions

Is it really free?

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When is Constitution Day?

Constitution Day is September 17 in the United States, but these citizenship and rules activities work any time of year.

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