In this 9-slide kid-friendly PowerPoint, students will learn the system of checks & balances within the U.S. government. At the end students have the opportunity to create their own diagram of checks & balances.

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I have been teaching grades 7 and 8 Language Arts and Social Studies at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts in Ventura, California since 2001. I have also briefly taught high school ESL (grades 9-12), and I spent one month teaching English in Moscow, Russia.
