Engaging Congress
Engaging Congress Summary
Engaging Congress is a free iOS app in Education by Indiana University. Released in Nov 2017 (8 years ago). It has 11 ratings with a 3.55★ (average) average. Based on AppGoblin estimates, it reaches roughly 5.00 monthly active users . Store last updated Nov 13, 2022
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3.55★
Ratings: 11
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App Description
Engaging Congress is a game that uses primary source documents, photographs, political cartoons, maps, and other items to explore the challenges of sustaining representative democracy in our complex and diverse nation today.
Features:
- Introductory Video
- Theme-based Stories
- Primary Source Gallery
- Primary Source Analysis
- Trivia Challenge
- Assessment Tools
- Mini-games...
...More
Engaging Congress content is divided into five thematic stories:
- More Equal Than Others (Influencing the Political Process)
- Laws and Sausages (Separation of Powers)
- Vote Early, Vote Often (Voting Rights)
- A Balancing Act (The Federal Budget)
- Fair is not Always Equal (Federalism and States' Rights)
The accompanying Engaging Congress website (engagingcongress.org) contains many additional resources including:
- The Teacher Toolbox
- Curriculum Guide
- Correlation of content with Social Studies standards
- Bank of multiple-choice and discussion assessment questions
- Links to Library of Congress primary source analysis guides
- Downloadable PDFs and PNGs of all primary source documents
- And more.