Lesson introducing the concept of judicial review and then progressing to a more in depth examination of how it has been used, and if it was the intention of the framers of the constitution to include judicial review. Includes group activity for pupils to interpret supreme court rulings.

Lessons examining how Supreme Court Justices are appointed and confirmed, including asking pupils to prepare case studies of the most high profile nominees.

Lesson examining the role and powers of the Supreme court and its jurisdiction.\nActivity encourages pupils to construct their own indicative content for the practice exam question (pupils need to be familiar with what an indicative content is and how it is used by examiners to mark their answers)

Lesson examining the appointment and confirmation process for the Supreme Court, encouraging students to then apply knowledge to case study of Justice Ginsberg, then research recent high profile nominations

Lesson examining prime ministerial styles and how these apply to recent Prime Ministers

Lesson examining the Bill of Rights and supplementary lesson exploring Bill of Rights issues.

Lesson and supporting materials examining the role and powers of the US president

Lesson examining the fluctuating power of the president

Lesson examining the legislative process in the UK

A lesson introducing democracy and soveriegnty in relation to the British Constitution examining which forms of democracy and sovereignty are most evident in the UK political system.

Lesson recapping the checks and balances, specifically focusing on those on the judiciary (with examples)

Card sort (definition matching) of key vocabulary when studying US Congress.

A variety of notes/articles that can be used to supplement existing lessons and resources based around the US presidency.

End of topic fact test for pupils to sit after studying Unit 4C Supreme Court.

Lesson organising arguments for and against codified and uncodified constitutions, with a design-a-constitution activity

Lesson introducing the parliamentary system and features of the UK constitution

Revision for parties, elections etc

End of topic test for Parliament topic

Revision sheets for US Supreme Court

Topic Revision booklet used to aid pupils' revision of key content for the democracy and participation topic taught at AS for Edexcel Unit 1; People Politics and Participation