Branches of Government, Voting, and Elections Digital Unit

Branches of Government, Voting, and Elections Digital Unit

This interactive and engaging Google Slides Unit (which will be updated before the 2024 election to reflect the current candidates for President and Vice President) is perfect for helping your grade 3-6 students gain a better understanding of how our government is structured, the history of voting rights, and elections.

Click for the SMARTBoard Version of this unit.

Option 1: Use the interactive Teacher-Led Google Slides Slideshow, which is full of fun animations, for whole-class lessons where you want to have discussions about the content. Students predict the covered words, and work in either paper or digital packets to record responses.

Option 2: Assign slides from the fully digital Google Slides file where students will read the content and respond independently digitally.

Topics covered in this file are:

• What is Government?
• Laws We Know
• Colonial Times
• Freedom for Some
• A New Government
• Our First President
• Votes for Some
• Votes for Women
• Votes for Native Americans
• Voting 101
• Levels of Government
• Me on the Map
• Our Flag
• Our Nation’s Capital
• Branches of Government
• Checks and Balances
• Political Parties
• The 2020 Election
• Jan. 6 Insurrection
• Impeachment
• Mid-Term Elections
• Diversity in Government
• Executive Branch-What Does the President Do? Our Current President, The Presidential Seal, Presidential Elections, Presidential True/False, Other Members of the Executive Branch,
• Legislative Branch- The House of Representatives, The Senate, How are Laws Made? Where Does the Money Go?
• Judicial Branch- The Supreme Court, Increasing Diversity, Choosing a New Justice

You will receive:

• A zipped file with links to the Google Slides files described below. You will be prompted to make a copy of each file in your own Google Drive. Be sure that you are logged into your school account when you purchase so that your file goes to the correct Google Drive.
• 40+-page PDF printable student packet for use with the teacher-led slideshow
• Answer keys for printable and Google Slides student pages
• Optional Extension Activities

Links that you will receive:

• 50 page Google Slides version of student packet, for digital or distance learning
• 100+ page Google Slides fully remote unit for distance learning
• 60+-page Google Slides teacher-led slideshow, full of opportunities for student participation. There are links to videos and a variety of activities, such as text reveal, true/false, sequencing, and draggable content.
• Google Forms and Printable Assessments

-Optional Extension Activities:

1. 5 Interactive Follow-Up Activities: Vocabulary Match, Branches of Government Sort, It’s About Time, The “Dating” Game, and Government Tree Leaf Sorts.
2. Ballots for a classroom or school mock vote, and “I Voted Today” “stickers”.
3. Make Your Own Government Tree Craftivity: Students color and cut out the tree template, along with a variety of leaves, each printed with a responsibility of one branch of government. Students can first play as a sorting game, and then create a record of learning by gluing each leaf to its proper branch and mounting the tree on colored construction paper.
4. “Why is Voting Important?” writing prompt
5. “If I Were Elected President” writing activity: Students use a paragraph organizer to write about the top 3 things they would do if they were president. Includes dollar bill template for inserting student’s faces to display with final copies of the writing.

Download my preview file to see more, and please let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks!

Cathy