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8th grade government resources for Microsoft Excel
English Documents That Influenced US Govt Chart
In this activity, students can investigate the English Documents that influenced the Founding Fathers when writing the US Constitution. The chart consists of topics that students will indicate if it was addressed in the Magna Carta, English Petition of Right, English Bill of Rights, or Habeas Corpus Act.On the second page, students have an opportunity to define key terms and phrases that may help them determine what the topics mean. For example, if they need help understanding "martial law" or "
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8th - 12th
Enlightenment and Great Awakening Quote Comparison Chart
In this activity, students can work in partners, groups or independently to evaluate quotes said by people from the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. Students will decide which movement the quotes might be from. This activity could be used to introduce the 2 movements, but it may have more impact by having students complete the quote evaluation chart after they've been introduced to the 2 movements and their missions.The chart has 15 quotes from people like John Locke, Jacques Rousseau, Cha
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8th - 12th
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Student and teacher: 7th Grade Civics EOC Learning Goal Tracker for Data
Administrators always say to put the tracking in the students hands, make sure you are keeping data, and never offer ways to help you do these! Well, that's where I come in! I sat down with the test specs, essential standards, and standard break down sheet to create this awesome excel sheet that you could easily print, distribute, or put in a google sheet that your students can track THEMSELVES! Plus this is also a great tracker for PLC's to ensure all students are learning the content & you
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Civics Bundle: 181 Products and over $400 in lessons/activities
Graphs, Charts, and Tables: U.S. Census Data Study
This lesson uses data from the 2010 U.S. Census to allow students to access numbers and data in a social science classroom. The lesson is a 2 day mini-unit centered on working with charts, graphs, and tables (serves extremely well for SAT and ACT prep). This cross-curricular lesson draws meaningful parallels between math and social science, and the necessity of bringing these subjects together. The lesson uses a comparative look at Census data for California and the United States as a whole, but
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Constitution Day Pixel Art and Reading Comprehension
Students will read two informational texts about the Constitution and the first Constitutional Convention. After completing the response questions, they will put their answers into pixel art to reveal a self-grading, secret picture.
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4th - 8th
Social Studies, Government, History Computer Project: Electoral College in Excel
Welcome to my Electoral College Excel Project. During this project, students will learn how to create and manipulate information on 3 different spreadsheets. They will learn all about the history of the Electoral College from some awesome websites I discovered. They will create one spreadsheet with all the states, regions, # of electoral votes and how each state voted in the 2008 and 2012 elections. Did you know that there are 2 states electors are not required by law to vote with the popular m
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6th - 12th
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Election Day Pixel art and Reading Comprehension
Students will read three informational texts about Election Day and the major voting amendments to the Constitution. After completing the response questions, they will put their answers into pixel art to reveal a self-grading, secret picture.
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4th - 8th
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Civics/Law Studies Glossary (with Spanish terms included)
This might be the only glossary that you need for Civics and Law Studies. Based directly on Florida's middle school civics standards, this Excel file is a convenient way for students to practice their civics vocabulary skills. With nearly 400 terms, this glossary can help you MAKE THE GRADE in Civics and Law Studies.
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6th - 8th
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Market Structures Comparison Chart
Includes a chart comparing monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, and perfect competition.
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7th - 12th
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The Census - A Statistical Look at the Diversity of American Culture.
A Statistical Look at the Diversity of American Culture. Whether, it is used with a class or any group, the purpose is to open the eyes of the participants to how diverse our population really is. Preview presentation has notes to explain what the Census is and how to use the Spreadsheet. The spreadsheet sums up the results of data collected and automatically displays on both the Bar Graphs and the Pie Charts. Spreadsheet is compact and uncomplicated. It allows for easy to understand results
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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AmerGovt: Executive Crossword Puzzle
A crossword puzzle set based on American Government's Executive Branch content vocabulary. A full page puzzle, a second full page with answers, and a third page of the contextual clues. This is a terrific way to introduce, review, or reinforce the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this aspect of social studies as well as to add differentiation into your activities. Words and definitions can be used as a "what I already know" gauge or periodically as an organizer for vocabulary learned along the
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7th - 12th
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AmerGovt: Voting Crossword Puzzle
A full page crossword puzzle, a full page answer sheet, and a page with all of the directional clues for the words. Great to use to supplement classroom instruction to introduce vocabulary or use as a pretest and posttest. Other uses include giving your students the crossword puzzle as you begin the unit of study and allowing them to work on it when they are finished early or have a moment at the end of class. Call for finished crosswords at the end of the unit or grading period and use as revie
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6th - 12th
Analyzing Congress 2.0
Spreadsheets are perhaps the simplest form of a database and are excellent tools for introducing students to using technology for analysis. This lesson plan centers around analysis of the current House of Representatives.How representative of the average American is it?What traits are common?What does this tell us about what it takes to be a Member of the House of Representatives?This teaching guide and lesson plan provides you with the resources to do a deep dive about the House of Representat
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Mock 2012 Presidential Election Voting Booth
This is a great mock presidential election program written in Excel. It notifies the voter that they have voted so the students can be sure their vote registered. It has a separate tab showing the voting tallies that can be easily reset if it being used for multiple classes. A final tab displays a 3D bar graph of the results. Both the tally tab and the graph tab can be toggled to at anytime. This is very user friendly and I am excited about using it in my classroom on Super Tuesday to let m
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2nd - 12th
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Enlightenment Philosopher chart & USA government
What are the main ideas of the Enlightenment philosphers and how did their ideas influence the USA?Includes answers
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7th - 12th
Also included in: Crusades through Enlightenment bundle world history
Election Graphs
Hold elections in your classroom and use these graphs to show results of presidential and local elections. All you have to do is fill in the names of the candidates and decide how many electoral votes each class will have!
Students will be able to compare popular and electoral votes and see how many votes each candidate receives! This spreadsheet is great as a supplement to a lesson on elections.
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6th - 12th
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Preamble Matching
After reading and learning about the Preamble I had my students do this matching activity. It could be used as an assessment too.
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2nd - 12th
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Rights, responsibilities and privileges enlightenment government
What is the difference between a right, a responsibility and a privilege? Use this chart to define them and give examples. Answers on second sheet. Can be used to identify civic rights and responsibilities.Answer key on second sheet.
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Crusades through Enlightenment bundle world history
SPANISH Rights, responsibilities and privileges, civics government, en Español
What is the difference between a right, a responsibility and a privilege? Use this chart to define them and give examples. Answers on second sheet. Can be used to identify civic rights and responsibilities.Answer key on second sheet.
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: SPANISH Modern World history resources en Español bundle ESL ELL
Civics Mock Election Polling Roster Sheets
Adds a little extra fun to the Mock Election.
I make students show their "Voter ID" at the door and sign in to vote.
I split the class in A-L and M-Z.
This template has the 2 pages for 6 periods in it. It's an Microsoft Excel file - I find this the easiest format to then copy and paste my student rosters in it.
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7th - 8th
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Compare and contrast USA & Britain's governments chart enlightenment
this includes today for the USA and over time for Britainhas answers
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Crusades through Enlightenment bundle world history
U.S. Presidents
An Excel spreadsheet containing data about all the U.S. Presidents, including terms of office, home states, political party affiliations, and more. Can serve as the basis for further development. Can also be used to teach effective use of Excel spreadsheets to collect, organize and access information, both useful and trivial.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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