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Elections - voting projects under $5
Create Your Own Political Party Project
Want an engaging, hands-on project to help your students learn about political parties? Try my Create Your Own Political Party Project! This resource provides a complete, ready-to-implement project for students learning about political parties that will allow students in groups of four to create their own. The project includes instructions for four group roles as well as an individual rubric to assess each student. The file contains full instructions for teachers including common core standards,
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6th - 12th
Also included in: Create Your Own Political Party Digital and Printable Bundle
2020 Election, Presidential Unit: Biden and Trump, Biographies and More!
2020 Presidential Election Unit Everything you need to teach this year's election to your students. This is an unusual year and students will be talking about the election this fall. This unit will provide all of the background they need on the candidates, their stances on the issues, and the presidential election process itself. No prep! Print and teach!Digital Lessons Included!Lessons included with this unit:*2020 Presidential Election Vocabulary*Election Process Lesson/w Follow-up Activity*
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4th - 8th
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Presidents Day Craft | When I Become President Writing Prompts
If your looking for a fun way to talk about our presidents or a presidential election, look no further this craft is for you! This When I Become President Craft is a fun activity that lets students putting their thinking hat on and write about what they would do as a president. Students will love this hands on craft and seeing it hang up on your classroom bulletin board! Now includes 5 different writing prompts!What's included in this pdf: • A photograph of the craft activity • Step-by-step
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K - 3rd
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Elections Campaign Poster Activity
Elections Campaign Poster Activity This product has two activities. Students will design a presidential election campaign poster after choosing and researching a candidate of their choice. Instructions include that posters must have an overall positive message (no negative ads). Internet access is required for research portion of project. The students will choose two campaign posters to analyze for the second activity. Use the cut-and-paste posters provided or use your own images! This dow
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7th - 10th
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Creating Your Own Political Party - An Election Activity
This pdf file contains a two-page handout that you would give to students to guide them in creating their own political party. They must come up with a name for their party, identify the top 5 issues that are important to their party and explain their party's stand on these issues, choose a party slogan, and explain why they have chosen the animal they did to represent their party. I have used this in several ways with my students. It makes an interesting class activity for election years esp
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4th - 8th
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Fun Rhetorical Situation Project for AP Language or High School English
Looking for a fun project for AP Language or high school English to introduce rhetorical situation (speaker, purpose, and audience)? In this fun, multi-day writing and video project, groups of students just learning about rhetorical analysis, ethos/pathos/logos, and other essentials work together to launch a new political party, write a short speech, then adapt that speech to each of the audiences they encounter on the campaign trail! This project bundle includes a detailed teacher's guide, edit
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10th - 12th
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President Bio Bottle Buddies
Presidential Bottle Buddies, an all time FAVORITE project of mine. They look so wonderful displayed in the hallway or classroom alongside their bio poems. I use this project when reading the biography genre in reading workshop. It also is excellent to use for a social studies project or in the month of February for President's Day. This 16 page packet includes:
*Project directions
*Step by step student successful completion page
* Planning sheet
* Graphic organizer for note taking
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3rd - 6th
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Levels of Government
Federal, State, and Local Governments are made simple for your students with this PowerPoint. I use the first part of the power point after the students learn about the constitution in the fall, and then show the whole thing in the spring when students campaign and are elected for the Leadership Class the following year.Add your own state, local, and school governments to the slides.This aligns with the Common Core State Standards:3.SL.33.SL.43.SL.63.W.45.SL.35.SL.45.SL.65.W.48.SL.38.SL.48.SL.68
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3rd - 9th
Letter to Congress Legislative Branch, House of Representatives Senate worksheet
Assignment to write a letter to a congressperson about an issue the student feels strongly about. A template is included in business letter format.
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8th - 12th
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Class Election Packet
Help teach about local government by creating a mock City Council in your classroom. Students learn about the position of a city council member and the Mayor and decide which position they would like to run for. Students write a speech, present their speech and peers vote and elect their Classroom City Council. Those who are not appointed a position brainstorm "problems" within the classroom and their plan to improve the situation. They then present their proposal to the city council and Mayor a
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1st - 5th
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Political Socialization Tree
Student Instructions: Complete the tree to create a visual representation of all the factors that have contributed to your personal political socialization. When done, complete the political typology quiz posted on Google Classroom to see where you fall on the spectrum according to your political socialization. Please make your tree COLORFUL as if it was SUMMER TIME :) Print Instructions: Print double sided on 11x17 paper. Instructions/prompts are on the front. Students will create their tree o
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9th - 12th
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Create a school survey to analyze public opinion polls!
Discussing the role of The People and Public Opinion is a very important topic within any government, civics, current events or history class. However, nothing helps students to learn information better than actually living it! In this activity, students get to design their own survey, poll their peers, analyze the results and answer critical thinking questions about how political analysts might use their research. DOK 3 and 4! Student-centered learning!This is consistently one of my student
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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”I Like Ike” TV Campaign Ad Analysis (1950s - Fifties) + Distance Learning Versi
”I Like Ike” TV Campaign Ad Analysis guides students to through the first political ad on the new medium of television. Students study the two pictures from the ad and then are asked to compare it to today’s political ads. Finally students create a political poster listing reasons why voters should support Eisenhower. An alternate version of the assignment includes a YouTube address and a QR Code linking to the original 1952 commercial. This can be used in class or as homework as it’s a complet
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Election Day Activity - Vote For... Create an Election Poster Student Government
This activity has two different options for creating an election poster - one for a real candidate and one where students are the candidate! There is also an election poster worksheet for students to make a poster for themselves. The activity can work for upper or lower grades. Have students write about what they would do if elected, or go online for information and research the candidates. Get your students excited about the upcoming elections!
For more election fun:
Election Math Game - Elec
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Not Grade Specific
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Let's Elect a Class Mascot- Election Activity for students
Included in this 25 page unit are activities to help your students create their own campaign, speech, and elect a class mascot. This goes well with the Government for Big Kids.Included are:Create a campaign slogan for your candidate2. Let’s make a campaign poster3. Speech time!4. Voter registration cards5. Ballot box cover6. Voter ballots- editable ones also included7. Extension activitiesa. Class Mascot Traveling Journal
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2nd - 4th
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Election Day Craftivity & Emergent Reader Pack
This cute Emergent Reader and Craftivity packet provides a fun way to get a little crafty while focusing on literacy skills and social studies content.
Included in this packet:
A full-size, color version of an original emergent reader titled, "Election Day"
A small, B/W student take-home version of the book
Pocket chart pictures for retelling
An adorable interactive craftivity (the voting booth opens to reveal the candidates) that includes templates and step by step picture directions
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PreK - 2nd
Presidents' Day Poster Project and Writing Activities
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If I were President: Poster Projects and Writing prompts
SUBJECT: Social Studies, English Language Arts
LEVEL: Elementary Grades
If I were President: Poster Projects and Writing Prompts are fun and engaging activities for students to complete on Presidents' Day, or when learning about presidents and elections!
Two separate 8.5 x 11 posters are included - you can choose to use one or both. Simp
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1st - 4th
2024 Presidential Election Activities
Teach students about the 2020 presidential election using the included print and digital distance learning lessons and activities. Students will learn about the Electoral College, Political Parties, and the Election Process through the included print and remote learning materials. To review the concepts, students can complete the sketch note graphic organizers. A project that will have students draft and record a campaign speech will detail directions to allow you to distribute this blended lear
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4th - 6th
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Election Campaign Posters -- compare, then make your own!
Compare historical presidential campaign posters, then have your students create their own! Also included are posters for a mock election between Penny Pig and Freddy Frog.
What's included:
6 campaign posters from 1840-1944
Venn diagram to compare and contrast two campaign posters
“What makes a good campaign poster?” worksheet
“What makes a good president?” worksheet
Campaign posters for Penny Pig and Freddy Frog
Ballots for a class election of Penny Pig and Freddy Frog
Graph to tally e
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1st - 5th
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Mock Presidential Campaign and Election Activity
Introduce your students to the presidential campaign process with this interactive activity. As a group, your students will create a political party, nominate a presidential candidate, write a party platform, create materials to advertise their chosen candidate, create a slogan for their party, as well as campaign posters, buttons, and a song.Click here to subscribe to my newsletter and receive a FREE game!
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4th - 10th
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Political Debates: Electoral College, Term Limits, Immunity, & Stock Trading
In Political Debates: Electoral College, Term Limits, Immunity, & Stock Trading, students will get to debate fundamental changes to America's political system through Lincoln-Douglas style debates. With options to debate the Electoral College, Term Limits for Congress & Supreme Court Justices, Presidential Immunity, and Congressional Stock Trading, this project touches on a number of key debates that we see playing out in America today. This project comes with all of the sources, prepara
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7th - 10th
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2020 Election | Voting Ballots | Presidential Election 2020 | Election Hats
Here are some adorable 2020 Presidential Election Resources! These resources will help you run your own mock presidential election voting in November when Trump and Pence face off against Biden and Harris. You'll get ballots, posters, vocabulary cards, crowns, bracelets, and more! These resources a perfect way to introduce primary students to voting and elections!What is included?3 full-color posters: Trump, Biden, Voting Counts12 full-color vocabulary cardsGraphics you can use to create and dec
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PreK - 2nd
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Create a Town PBL | Project Based Learning
Your students will LOVE this engaging PBL Build a Town project! Students pick the businesses they would like in their town, complete pages designing candy, cupcakes, a community park, as well as a ball park. I've even thrown in some math and paragraph writing.Activity pages included are:Describe Your TownWho's in Charge? (Mini-Mayoral Election)Design a City ParkCandy Shop (Adding Money - Dollars and Cents)Bakery (Adding Money - Dollars and Cents) Using Multiplication, if able)Fruit and Vegetab
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2nd - 3rd
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Create Your Own Political Party Group Interactive Project Google Slides Editable
This is a FUN interactive group project where students create their own political party. There is a detailed beginning to prepare them about the history of political parties, so no worries if they don't have that foundational knowledge. It guides students to think about both sides of issues and then they come up with their stance. I left off a few "issues" that you might want to add back on if you teach older students. (ie: abortion )the culminating project is a creation of an advertisement (pos
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6th - 12th
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