1. Mallory Burchnall 8th Grade Social Studies
How a Bill Becomes a Law
Mallory Burchnall
8th Grade
Social Studies

2. Instructional Activity - Students will be creating their own bill and how it will become a law using the steps from our graphic organizer using Google Slides.
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Each multimedia presentation will need:
At least 10 slides with 4 sentences text each, describing their bill at each step
At least 2 educational video clips
At least 4 relating images
At least 10 APA cited scholarly resources using Bibme

3. How is this activity student-centered?
According to Roblyer, in “Inquiry-based learning, learners should generate their own knowledge through experiences, while teachers serve only as facilitators,” (Robyler, 2016, 34).
Students are certainly the center of this lesson, and this lesson would be best used in a flipped classroom model, viewing the ‘School House Rocks’ video clip a few times as homework and the entire multimedia presentation work should be done in classroom.
The teacher-created flow chart graphic organizer and detailed description of the activity should be used a support to the student-centered project.
The teacher should be there for technical support, discussion questions and support but not the center of the student learning.

4. School House Rocks - ‘How a Bill Becomes a Law’
This very clever, short video clip that has been used for decades in classrooms to help students process the complicated process of a bill becoming a law.

5. Students will use this graphic organizer to aid them in their Google slides research presentation.
I used Piktochart to create the steps in how a bill becomes a law in the federal government of the United States.

6. Description of Graphic Organizer & Purpose/Use in the Classroom
This graphic organizer is a step by step flow chart graphic organizer describing how a bill becomes a law in our federal government.
It’s over simplified in nature and is should only be used as a simplistic support for student discussion.
There are many descriptive challenges missing from the organizer.
It can be used for their multimedia presentation as a guideline.

7. Type of Graphic Organizer & Why I chose it
The type of graphic organizer is a flow chart diagram that shows and explains steps in how a bill becomes a law.
The arrows represent a flow from step to step in the complicated process of how a bill becomes a law.
Each step is simplified for student use and helps them visually depict the process of a bill becoming a law.

8. How did I incorporate the graphic organizer into my multimedia lesson plan?
I incorporated this flow chart graphic organizer into my multimedia lesson as a sort of guideline, foundational basis for each students research presentation.
They could use each step as a basis for each slide in their presentation, and help them research their video clips and images to enrich their discussion.
They could also use the final choices from the President to create a more complex ending to their bill becoming a law.

9. References
From a Bill to a Law [PDF]. (2019). Washington D.C.: Office of the Clerk.
How Laws are Made. (2019). Retrieved April 5, 2019, from
Roblyer, M. D. (2016). Integrating educational technology into teaching(7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
Schoolhouse Rock: America - I'm Just a Bill Music Video. (2011, December 8). Retrieved April 4, 2019, from Schoolhouse Rock: America - I'm Just a Bill Music Video