Teaching Resource
Forms of Government – Flashcards and Sorting Activity
A set of flashcards for students to review the various forms of government and sort them into categories.
With this activity, students will learn about the various types of government, including:
- monarchy
- anarchy
- democracy
- theocracy
- fascism
- dictatorship
- totalitarianism
- oligarchy
- tyranny
- aristocracy.
Students then sort these governments into the categories of rule by one, rule by few, and rule by many.
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACHASSK143
The key institutions of Australia's democratic system of government and how it is based on the Westminster system

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