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Engaging Congress Captures d'écran

iPad

iPhone

About Engaging Congress

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.

Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version 1.95

Last updated on Nov 13, 2022

Vieilles Versions

Content updates, optimizations, and app updates to ensure modern device compatibility.

Version History

1.95

Nov 13, 2022

Content updates, optimizations, and app updates to ensure modern device compatibility.

1.3

Mar 26, 2021

Added two new educational modules covering the executive and judicial branches of government
Fixed bug with calculation of safe areas on screen
Increased resolution of primary source assets throughout game
Implemented new video download and caching system to minimize initial application download size

1.2

Jul 9, 2020

Significant optimizations
Added more robust offline support
Minor bug fixes to various minigames

1.1

Nov 18, 2017

Optimization to reduce file size and memory usage, now works on iPad 3 and iPhone 6.

1.0

Nov 14, 2017

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