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Elections - voting handouts for Microsoft Word
2020 Presidential Election - Political Party Survey
Help your students unearth their ideology (conservative, liberal, libertarian, or moderate) and the political party that they might belong to. Just make sure you use lots of "in my opinion" statements!
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7th - 12th
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Gerrymandering Puzzles!
The purpose of these materials is to allow your students to try the idea of Gerrymandering for themselves! This lesson goes best with my FREE powerpoint detailing the history of gerrymandering and how it has been used to divide and conquer. There are many ways you could use these worksheets but I suggest at the very least, as a part of your lesson, that you check out CGP Grey's youtube channel and show your students his segment on gerrymandering --> (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mky11UJb9A
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8th - 12th
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PBS Frontline- “Whose Vote Counts” Video Questions
These questions follow along with PBS Frontline's "Whose Vote Counts" that can be found on the PBS website. As America chooses its next president in the midst of a historic pandemic, FRONTLINE investigates whose vote counts — and whose might not. With Columbia Journalism Investigations and reporters from the USA TODAY NETWORK, New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb reports on allegations of voter disenfranchisement, how unfounded claims of extensive voter fraud entered the political mainstream, rhetoric
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9th - 12th
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"The Simpsons - Homer vs the 18th Amendment" Prohibition and Women's Suffrage
This is a simple and fun assignment I do to wrap up my Prohibition and Women's Suffrage chapter. It's a 22 minute episode. I have provided two different links in the title of the assignment. The sheet is prepared for half sheets. Obviously, I'd suggest previewing the episode ("Homer vs. the 18th Amendment") to make sure it's acceptable for your students.
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7th - 12th
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How Do The US Presidential Elections Work? - Reading Comprehension / Information
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes how the US Presdential Elections work from the Primaries to Inauguration Day.After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true or false exercise, a multiple choice exercise, a crossword and an independent fill-in-the gaps exercise on the responsibilities of the US President.This worksheet /
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Informational Texts BUNDLE - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Civics Mock Election Ballot Template
*Used for non-election year project where students make their own candidates running for Senate. However, if you'd like, you could easily modify this for other election projects.
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7th - 8th
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AP Comp. Govt. Briefings on Electoral Systems
This activity takes students through presidential and legislative electoral systems in all 6 AP course countries. It provides charts and graphs and detailed information for students to analyze and consider. This 14-page packet is very detailed and is a great review of concepts and systems. Again, it is mostly based on analyzing why these systems were set up in this way and why certain electoral results occurred as they did rather than simple information recall. It goes back to information from
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Bundle: AP Comp. Govt. Unit 4
Government Citizen Participation (Autocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy)
This is a one page handout that describes the various forms of govts. in terms of citizen participation. (Autocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy). After reading the information regarding the forms of governments their are a few multiple choice questions at the bottom of the page. This one handout was a life saver for me! I don't know about everyone else's textbooks, but my school textbook did not even have these terms listed. Also, the way this handout describes the governments it makes sense..and
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5th - 8th
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Milk (2008) Movie Viewing Guide: Summary/Vocabulary/Questions/KEY
Milk (2008) is a biographical film directed by Gus Van Sant. The movie tells the story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in the United States.The film starts in 1970s San Francisco, where Harvey Milk, a middle-aged closeted man, and his partner Scott Smith move to the city and open a camera shop in the Castro District. Milk becomes a prominent figure in the gay community and is eventually elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.Throughout the mo
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Psychology of Gender/Sexuality Movie Guide BUNDLE
We Need To Talk About An Injustice: Bryan Stevenson TED Talk Analysis
This is a transcript of Bryan Stevenson's TED Talk, "We Need to Talk About An Injustice," accompanied by 10 questions for analysis and discussion. The transcript is freely available through the TED website, but I have formatted it for easier and cleaner printing. Time markers and page numbers are included, and the margins are wide enough for active annotation. Although this could be read as an essay, the hyperlink to his in-person talk in linked in the document and highly recommended. This TED t
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Election 2012: Electoral College Lesson on Repeating Addition/Multiplication
You can use this product with my powerpoint presentation explaining the electoral college, and accompanying math worksheet. This worksheet allows students to practice repeated addition and multiplication. They look at a map of the electoral college, find how many states have, say 5 electoral votes, then express the quantity as 5 + 5 + 5 or 5 x 3. It also has a few review word problems at the end of the worksheet. You can use it for Social Studies or Math-- it is part of my integrated SS/Math
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3rd - 4th
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US Citizenship Test - 100 Questions
This file includes 100 example questions of a US Citizenship Test.A real citizenship test would be given verbally, and only consist of 10 question. This test is the pool they pull the questions out of. There are a few different topics covered, including:US HistoryCivicsGeographyHolidaysGovernmentI love giving this test at the beginning of the year with my government kids and seeing how they improve throughout the year.
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Not Grade Specific
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Conservative vs. Liberal Viewpoints Notes
I created this for use in my senior American Government course, along with the Conservative vs. Liberal Viewpoints PPT. Covers most major issues, from abortion to welfare, with fill-in-the-blank style sentences so students can easily keep up.
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11th - 12th
PBS FrontLine- "NRA Under Fire" Video Questions
These questions follow along with PBS Frontline's "NRA Under Fire" that can be found on the PBS website. Once an unrivaled political power, the NRA is facing challenges from all sides. FRONTLINE investigates the organization’s history and evolution, how it aligned with President Donald Trump and his base, and why it is under attack ahead of the 2020 election.https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/nra-under-fire/
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: PBS FrontLine & NOVA Video Questions Bundle
Canada's Parliamentary Democracy Reading with Questions
This product includes a short reading about the Parliamentary Democracy of Canada. It explains how Members of Parliament are elected and how the Prime Minister of Canada is chosen. There are 6 reading comprehension question and one opinion question. Answer key included. GA Standard: SS6CG2 Explain citizen participation in the Canadian government. a. Explain the role of citizens in choosing the leader of Canada (parliamentary democracy).
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4th - 7th
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Political Party Platforms Activity, Democrat v Republican, Government worksheet
First pg: blank chart listing about a dozen political issues such as Iraq, education, energy, environment, etc. as well as a column for the Democrat platform and a column for the Republican platform.
Second pg: platforms to cut out and place on right spot on blank chart (ex: Stay in Iraq and Bring troops home)
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8th - 12th
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DBQ: Gerrymandering and Apportionment
Document based questions geared toward an American government and civics coursed. May also be used in a U.S. History course to illustrate the historical development of gerrymandering and constitutional principles outlined for apportionment in the U.S.
A series of 6 documents including charts, graphs, and primary sources, A great resource to utilize for collaborative learning.
Keywords: gerrymandering, apportionment,Constitution, DBQ, apportion, reapportion, apportionment acts
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8th - 12th
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Political Parties and Interest Groups Short Answer Worksheets
Included in this file are seven short answer worksheets focusing on the nature of political parties in the United States, as well as their relationship to interest groups and the media.These worksheets cover all the material a student needs to know in order to succeed on the AP US Government Exam. Topics include the creation of political parties in the U.S., the national party structure, the two-party system, campaigns, financing and its' impact on elections, and the role of the media and inter
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9th - 12th
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Analyzing Voter Data from the 2008 and 2012 Election
In this assignment, students examine voter data from the U.S. Census regarding the 2008 and 2012 Election. Links to each report are in the document. It's great for discussing demographics, voting habits, voting preference, and voter turnout.
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11th - 12th
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American Political Parties thru 1865
A handy flow-chart showing the evolution of American Political Parties. Includes supporters, leaders, and beliefs of each political parties and the candadites they put into office. Democratic-Republicans, Federalists, Whigs, and Republicans. Jefferson, Adams, Quincy Adams, Jackson, Madison, Monroe, Fillmore, Tyler, Taylor, Polk, Lincoln, etc.
Instructions: The two pages connect (follow the arrows). Kiddos glue or tape them together. Ideally this goes in an interactive notebook so they ca
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8th
I Side With Survey Political Ideology Assignment
This is an assignment that I use at the beginning of my Civics and AP Government classes. This helps students understand where they may fall on the political spectrum and what issues are relevant and prominent in politics today. At the end of this survey, isidewith also compares students to politicians and political parties they may align with.This assignment starts with a few discussion questions to get them started and then ends with a reflection about the results.
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9th - 12th
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Election of 1860 Class Activity: Candidates and Platforms
Students participate in a mock election of 1860 to understand the major issues of the election that led to the Civil War. Student groups are assigned a candidate and given a primary source of an abridged speech and party platform. Students create a poster using their analysis of the speech and party platform either supporting or opposing the candidate. (I usually assign student one student group to oppose and one to support each candidate, so we hear both sides of the platform). Students then pr
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10th - 12th
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Local Elections and You
A short research project designed to have students research local election candidates for mayor and town council. Could be expanded upon to talk about provincial/state or federal elections, but would need to be fleshed out a bit more.
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5th - 12th
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Civil Rights- Voting Rights, Selma
This is a compilation of articles about various methods of voter suppression methods practiced in the American South. Most of them are adapted from the learnnc website, with simplified language, larger font and added images. Topics include: poll tax, literacy requirement, violence and intimidation, segregation and the civil rights act and the number of registered votes (from teaching tolerance). I used this with a graphic organizer that is also posted.
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7th - 10th
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