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Free middle school elections - voting projects
The Candy Election - Freebie!
We hold a candy election every year in my classroom and the kids love it! Students will split up into three teams based on their favorite candy. I use Skittles, M&M’s and Gummi Bears, but feel free to white-out those candies and pick your own! Next, the kids will work together in their teams to create persuasive posters to promote their candy. The kids will also write a persuasive paragraph to promote their candy. The posters and writings can be graded individually or as a group. Graphic org
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2nd - 6th
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I Do Solemnly Swear...(Statistics Project)
This is a statistics project that can be modified to fit grades 6 to 12. This can also be done by hand or in excel. It would be a great assignment to use as a unit project or as a group presentation. It is a cross curriculum activity that will combine history and math together to give the kids a great way to explore box and whisker plots, bar graphs, pie charts, and more. Because this is statistics, you can change the way the graphs are created to fit the need of the course you are teaching!
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6th - 12th
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Election & Voting: Election Day Hat Art Project, Roll-A-Dice Game, & Sub Plan
Election and Voting for November don't all have to be coloring sheets. Why not infuse some Arts Integration and have your students engaged in your lessons with drawing and painting? Watch how easy it is to paint with markers and get your students excited about U.S. Government, Uncle Sam, or whatever Election Day fun you're teaching! PURCHASE THIS "DESIGN A ELECTION DAY HAT GAME" HERE.These roll-a-dice games are great for one or two day art projects for art teachers and classroom teachers alike.
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1st - 7th
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Letter to the President Activity
This is an activity you can do with almost any grade! At the end of the project just send the letters to the White House and hope for a response! (The President will be more likely to respond if you send each letter individually in its own envelope).
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2nd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Political Party Poster
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.
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6th - 11th
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Election Ballot Box Index Card File
This activity consists of a pattern to create a 2 dimensional "ballot box" pocket folder that will be used to store index cards, as well as a set of questions/labels for the index cards. Students will answer questions about the election process, the presidency, or other questions that the teacher chooses (question labels are reprogrammable) on the index cards. The cards can be used as the basis for a written report or as the report itself. They can also be used as a study guide or as an asses
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2nd - 8th
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Political Cartoon Project
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.
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5th - 12th
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President/ Election Rap Enrichment Project
Great enrichment activity for Election season! (for more check out my Election Connection Menu Packet!) Your advanced learners, fast finishers, or gifted students can compose an original song or rap about one of the candidates, the election process, or a past president. Students must include some factual trivia and the candidate’s views on several key issues (economy, education, health care, etc.). They can even put it to the tune of “Yankee Doodle” or other favorite song! Music sheets provided
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1st - 8th
Campaign Ad Project
Students create a TV spot using Youtube or Vimeo to demonstrate their understanding of parties & interest groups. They must also exhibit understanding of propaganda techniques that we've studied in class by watching examples from the Living Room Candidate website. To that end, students must incorporate one or two techniques in their ad.
Time allotted for students - about a week, with a day of in-class lab time
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7th - 12th
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Children's Voter Registration Cards
Voter Registration Cards to be used in classrooms for mock elections to help teach the value of voting.
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K - 10th
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Student Debate - Civics Government
In this activity your students will research and present a 'televised debate' 4-6 students will be candidates, 6-9 will be issue advisers who do research on specific topics and help prep their candidates, the rest of your students will be in groups who will use opensecrets.org to research how interest groups spend their money. These students will pick an interest group to represent and will create a commercial with props that they will 'air' during the class debate. The document includes the cla
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7th - 12th
CIVX Student Vote Activity: Make A Political Party Campaign Commercial
If you are teaching Social Studies during a provincial or federal election, you can enroll your school in a program called Student Vote at studentvote.caI use this activity to help my class learn about the parties and to pass that learning on to the rest of the school before Student Vote Day.
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6th - 12th
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Interest Group Brochure Rubric
This is a rubric I created for group work in my U.S. Government classroom. The students get into groups and create a name and symbol to represent their group. The groups then come up with things they want to change about their school, or whatever you prefer them to work with. They then have to come up with ways they will get their ideas and changes accomplished. You can give them the option to present to the class when completed.
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7th - 12th
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FLASH FREEBIE - The Election -Practice Civil Discourse, make informed decisions!
This resource is fully digital and can be used immediately! I used it this week to help my students research the issues, learn about civil discourse and think about how to make an informed decision.This unit makes a great springboard for learning about Our Democracy (this unit is now fully digital AND fully printable - newly revised in 2020!)The links in this resource are to high quality news articles on Scholastic News, appropriate for 4th - 6th graders. "If I Ran for President" is also linke
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4th - 6th
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Electoral College and Election
This project is a cross-curricular project for math and social studies that will take about a week to complete.
Through the study of the Electoral College, you’ve learned that the actual final decision concerning who wins the presidential election entails more than just winning a popular vote. Historically, individual state population is the driving force for the number of electoral votes per state. For this project, one must consider:
• How has the number of electoral votes changed from st
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6th - 8th
President Research
This product goes along with Really Good Stuff Presidential Research poster. Also good for just basic president research!
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3rd - 6th
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If I Were President Assignment
This handout is a guiding sheet for students to write an essay on what they would accomplish as president.They can consider questions such as:What do you think the hardest part about being President would be? What would be the most rewarding part? This handout includes an assignment introduction, brainstorming questions, role consideration, and essay structure.
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7th - 9th
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Presidential Pamphlet
President, Presidential Seal, Constitutional Requirements
Students will create a color pamphlet in which they reinvent and label a more current version of the presidential seal. Also included in the pamphlet are the Constitutional requirements of the President and the student's own requirements...what qualities should a president possess? This is a great final lesson for a study of the President, or a fun sponge activity when students have completed other tasks. The document includes both si
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4th - 8th
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Geo Project: One Country, Two Systems
Learn more about China and Hong Kong and the 'One Country, Two Systems' that led to the 2014 Umbrella Movement student protests. Students create an infographic to explain this political system and the election process in these two countries, while relating it to current issues.
Includes:
-Class Handout
-Project Instructions
-Grading Rubric
-Discussion Questions
-Links to additional resources
-Links to Google Docs for editing
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7th - 10th
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Knock Down the House Writing Assignment
Knock Down the House is a phenomenal and inspiring documentary film following four female insurgents running for Congress in the 2018 primary elections. While of the four, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is the only one to make it through to a victory in the general election, all of them are inspiring in their commitment to effect positive change in our through leadership in our government. This is an outstanding tool for teaching American civics, specifically how our congressional elections work and w
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8th - 12th
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Presidential Election Activity: Kids Debate Issues Presented at 2016 Debate! FUN
Presidential Election Activity: Kids Debate Issues Presented at 2016 Debate! FUN
This is a GREAT activity to complete right before the election!!
My kids are OBSESSED with it.
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How it works (in short):
Kids divided randomly into the two major political parties.
Kids given several hot topics to research.
Kids must present a valid argument (given their assigned political party), &am
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6th - 12th
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Finding theme–supporting with evidence: a look at the race for President
Finding theme–supporting with evidence: a look at the race for President
This cross curricular activity has kids looking at THEME and the current political campaigns. I link to a New York Times page that lists the candidates, from there they can Google a certain number of candidates and decide what the THEME is of that candidates campaign. THEN with the evidence they gather, they can then answer 5 R.A.C.E.S. questions.
This project was designed as a grade recovery for a grade level test for 7th
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6th - 8th
Election Newsletter Project
Get ready for the upcoming election by having your students create an Election Newsletter! They'll learn all about the important issues and where each candidate stands.
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5th - 12th
Voting Video Project
Group (3-4 per group) project to create video commercials/public service announcements to encourage voting. Can be used as culminating activity for unit on voting or stand alone project. It includes detailed instructions, rubric, pre-planning outline for students, and instructions for uploading videos.
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8th - 12th
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