Designed to meet the need for suitable materials for teaching the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to young children, this publication offers model lessons and teaching methods and includes specific classroom activities. In the book's first section, model lessons demonstrating the use of the newspaper to study the Constitution in grades one through three are presented. Step-by-step procedures and questions are included to show how a specific part of the newspaper is used in a lesson. The second section offers sample lessons that take children on a journey, beginning with their present day experience, back to the time when the Constitution was written. Numerous activities are suggested. A wide variety of materials and instructional techniques are illustrated and 11 appendixes containing a summary of the Constitution, a glossary, a bibliography, additional information and various supplementary activities are included. (KWL)