After reading the story Duck for President by Doreen Cronin, my students will practice voting in an election by choosing who they would vote for President: Duck or Farmer Brown. These stickers were made for AmazonBasics Round Labels 2.5" (and I used the Word Avery Template 5294).
The 2016 Presidential Election has been full of interesting drama and this product gives you a creative way to engage your students in the upcoming election. Now is the perfect time to challenge your students to create their own movie plot, script, poster, and trailer based on the current presidential election. Students create a storyline about the election based off facts, research and primary sources involving the current events in the election. My students loved this assignment and they b
This lesson requires students to research the brief biography of a congressperson and research where their campaign contributions come from. Students will use the website www.opensecrets.org as their main resource.
This is a fun project for students to complete and display in the classroom. Students will print a picture of their congressperson and paste logos of the corporations or Super PACS who have made donations to them.
This resource includes directions, a rubric, and examples.
Get a complete collection of all the Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates for the 2020 campaign. This "Land of the Free Civics Resource" is ready to print off and display in your classroom on bulletin boards or to use as a display in your room so students can see all of the candidates running for president. These are also great to use as a scoreboard of delegates each candidate has earned after each primary and caucus. Includes a picture, name, most recent position, and home state
It is time to get out and vote. This activity is a great way to get your students excited for the upcoming election and kids voting. Included are number squares in red, white, and blue, starting at 60 and counting backward from there. Copy, cut out, and laminate the cards and countdown chart. Place velcro on the back of each number and countdown chart and count away. You may start counting down at any point. Voting is a standard and it instills good citizenship.
Students will get a chance to utilize their persuasive talents and creative ones too in trying to persuade students to vote for the candidate of their choice. They will design a poster as well as 6 political buttons. This could be done prior to the upcoming presidential election as well as before any elections to come. These would make a great bulletin board, wall, or hallway display.
This is a poster/chart that helps students understand the levels of government, the different branches of government, and what they do within each level/branch. My students have used this as a resource all year and it is extremely helpful.
These vocabulary cards can be used to teach relevant vocab during an election or related Social Studies unit.
Words included: ballot, candidate, citizen, elect, Election Day, issue, polling location, register, vote, voter
This vocabulary unit is great for introducing students to our government and election process! The unit is broken into two different units: Government and Elections. Each unit contains a definition handout, worksheet, test, illustrated flashcards, definition flashcards, and sentence writing page. It provides students with all levels of Bloom's taxonomy and reinforces the definition with provided illustrations and student drawn illustrations. The flashcards can be used as a matching game to
This is a perfect project for your class to do during the 2019 elections! Interactive and fun! They must do research based on a website and the assignment guidelines explain everything they need to know including a rubric for you!
See how much your students know about our new President by having them complete an acrostic about him. They can also be allowed to do research to help them complete this poem and share with the class. The acrostics will make a great bulletin board display for January (inauguration) or for February (African American history month).
Create your own party! You are going to create a brochure or poster for a political party of your choice. You are going to make up a political party of your choice. Determine which part of the political spectrum you wish to occupy. Remember: you can sway left or right on each issue, but no dramatic shifts.
Students will learn about the different components of a political cartoon and create their own. Can be used in any secondary class (high school or middle school) and easily adapted to any topic.
I am posting this quickly after the presidential election for teachers looking to apply what they teach to the world our students live in. This works great if the students are already familiar with the bill of rights. The students have to pick one right they are willing to stand up for on behalf of others, and create a poster for it. All you will need to print for them is a copy of the 10 amendments so they can pick one to hone in on.
I plan on having the students tape these all over our school
Students make a locker decoration on an independent, Republican, or Democrat background. The locker decoration includes personal qualities and interests.
This project asks students to use their knowledge of persuasion to run a political campaign for a presidential candidate of their choice. Persuasion is done through writing, visuals and a short presentation.