Bundle of 5 - Voting & Elections - 2 Tutorials & 3 Power Points

This is a bundle of 5 products on Voting & Elections. The bundle includes 2 tutorials on choosing candidates: Election Time in Tutorial Town and Evaluate the Candidates: Who Will You Choose? Each tutorial contains a Student Study Guide with some video resources and a Teacher’s Answer Key. Also included are 3 highly animated, stand-alone power point presentations on Elections & Campaigns. The first is a 14-slide presentation called Elections and Campaigns - Vocabulary Exercise (companion to the two benchmarks listed below), the second is a 45-slide presentation on the Development of Political Parties in the United States and the third is a 37-slide presentation on the Voting Process in the United States.

The Tutorials comply with Florida Civics Benchmark: SS.7.C.2.7, Election Time in Tutorial Town and Florida Civics Benchmark: SS.7.C.2.9, Evaluate the Candidates: Who Will You Choose? They are excellent companion products.

Tutorial #1 is entitled, Election Time in Tutorial Town and contains a 5-page student study guide with key video resources and a 5-page teacher answer.

In this exercise students will learn what happens in the different stages of an election, from voter registration to primary elections to political campaigning to voting in the general election. They will conduct a mock election to demonstrate the voting process and its impact on a school, community, or at the local level.

Note the following link: www.floridastudents.org/PreviewResource/StudentResource/126031

Tutorial #2 is entitled, Evaluate the Candidates: Who Will You Choose and contains a 5-page student study guide with key video resources and a 5-page teacher answer.

In this tutorial, students will learn how to evaluate candidates for political office. Students will analyze the issues most important to them and determine what qualities they would look for in a candidate for office. They will consider background information, speeches, debates, and advertising as they evaluate a pair of candidates. And in the end, students will identify the candidate that they believe they would be most likely to vote for!

Note the following link: http://floridastudents.org/Preview Resource/Student Resource/119050

If you do not have a computer for each student, you can present the tutorial class activity completing each activity as you progress through the tutorial. If you have a smartboard, students can complete the activity at their seat, individually or with partners, and then come to the smartboard to present the answer. If you have computers or a laptop for each student, students can complete the tutorial and add answers as they progress through the tutorial at their own pace. Either way, students can then use the worksheet as a study guide for a quiz or the End of Course Exam.

Power Point #1 is entitled, Elections & Campaigns – Vocabulary Exercise and contains 14 pages.

The United States is unique in both its development and in the way, it functions as the world’s greatest representative democracy. As the founding fathers incorporated many of its ideas of government from the best thinkers of its day. Those thinkers wrote them directly into the laws of the land, creating a whole new vocabulary to describe these ideas.

This presentation contains 10 vocabulary words for the student to master. In this lesson, students will evaluate candidates for political office by analyzing their qualifications, experience, issue-based platforms, debates, and political ads. Conduct a mock election to demonstrate the voting process and its impact on a school, community, or local level.

The presentation slides cover the following:

Candidate

Elector

Evaluate

Issue Based Platform

Natural Born Citizen

Political Office

Political Official

Qualification

Requirement

Vote

Power Point #2 is entitled, the Development of Political Parties in the United States and contains 45 slides.

The “Founding Fathers” did not intend for American politics to be partisan. The subject of political parties has never been addressed in the United States Constitution. George Washington, the first president, was not a member of any political party at any time throughout his tenure as president. In his 1796, “Farewell Address” to the nation, he warned against “the baneful effects of the spirit of party” as inciting American citizens “with ill-founded jealousies.”

A political party is an organization of people which seeks to achieve goals common to its members through the acquisition and exercise of political power. These groups work to create public policies that reflect their views and seek to nominate for election, candidates who espouse their views.

The debates at the Philadelphia Convention “laid the groundwork” for the birth of the first political parties in the United States. The They became known as Federalists and Anti-Federalists.

The presentation slides cover the following:

History of Political Parties

What Is A Political Party?

The Philadelphia Convention

Federalists v. Anti-Federalists

The 1st Political Party System (2)

The 2nd Political Party System (3)

Two Major Parties

The 3rd Political Party System (3)

The 4th Political Party System (3)

The 5th Political Party System (2)

The Sixth Political Party System (2)

Third Parties

Ideological Third Parties

The Odds Are Against Them

Minor Parties

Independent Voters

The Role of Political Parties

Running Candidates for Political Office

Checking the Other Party

Informing the Public

Organizing the Government

Why a 2 Party System? (2)

Consensus of Values

Historical Influences

The “Winner-Take-All System”

American Politics Today

American Politics Today

The Democrat Party

The Republican Party (2)

Final Thoughts

Power Point #3 is entitled, The Voting Process in the United States and contains 37 slides.

The United States is a federation, with an orderly process for electing officials of the Executive and Legislative Branches of government at the national, state and local levels.

On the national level:

The President (Executive Branch) is elected indirectly by the people, through an Electoral College for a 4-year term. The Constitution sets term limits at 2 terms as president. All members of Congress (Legislative Branch) are directly elected. The Supreme Court (Judicial Branch) justices are all appointed by the president with Congressional approval.

On the state level:

There are many elected offices at state level, each state having at least an elective governor and legislature.

On the local level:

There are also elected offices at the local level, in counties and cities.It is estimated that across the whole country, over one million offices are filled in every electoral cycle.

The presentation slides cover the following:

The Election Process: National Level

The Election Process: State & Local Levels

The Presidential System of Government (2)

The Electoral College

How Elections are Held

Financing Elections

Qualifications to Run for President

Qualifications to Run for Congress

Senate Elections

House of Representatives Election

State & Local Elections (2)

Choosing Candidates

National Conventions: Purpose

At the Convention

Voter Eligibility

Voter Qualifications

Voter Registration

Why Should I Vote?

Where Do I Vote?

How Do I Vote?

When Do I Vote?

Sample Voter Registration Card

Voting Equipment

Pictures of Equipment

2000 Election Controversy: Ballots

2000 Election Controversy: Palm Beach County

Absentee Voting: Domestic

Absentee Voting: International

Absentee Voting: Military

Types of Votes

Counting the Vote

This is one of several bundled presentations I offer in my store on Tutorials and Voting & Elections.