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Higher education elections - voting homework
Understanding Presidential Primaries
This is a three-page activity for older students that involves identifying states with open, closed, or hybrid primaries, states with primaries and states with caucuses, and how states award delegates. The primary process is confusing, and this activity is designed to help students learn about the different moving parts that lead to party candidate nomination.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education
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Democrat v Republican: Who would say what? Quiz worksheet - Political Parties
WS or Quiz that lists statements like "If you have a problem, fix it yourself" and "Everybody deserves a helping hand when they are down" and asks students to idetnify if typically a Democrat or Republican would say each statement.
Includes states on many important issues in the US today.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Interviewing Voters Project
Would you like an engaging way for your students to learn more about a Presidential Election? Try this Interviewing Voters Project. Students will interview registered voters about issues related to the upcoming election, the election process, and current world issues. They will also connect this experience to how it benefits them as future voters.Since this product is created completely in Google, you can edit it however you need in order to accommodate your classroom needs. Since this product r
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Presidential Election Activities Bundle
Current Membership of 115 Congress Online Research Activity--Legislative Branch
This activity is designed for high school Government or Civics Students, but might also work for advanced middle school students. After learning about the legislative branch, students will investigate the current make up of the House of Representatives and the Senate. They will find out who makes up the Congress--party affiliation, gender, age, and other demographic information.
Students will also know who is currently in leadership positions:
-Speaker of the House
-Senate President pro tempor
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Government Legislative Branch Representative Bundle
Who REALLY Won the 2016 Presidential Election: Statistics & Civics
This is a set of activities that uses the raw data from each state in the 2016 United States Presidential Election, including the number of votes for each candidate, the number of "eligible" voters and the number of voters who "did not vote." What students will find out that if "did not vote" was a candidate, it would have "won" by one of the largest landslides in history. This is based on data used on the following website: https://brilliantmaps.com/did-not-vote/The first activity explains some
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Non-Fiction Reading: Electoral College
This is a simple non-fiction reading for teachers to supplement their teaching on the elections process and the Electoral College. This reading discusses the Electoral College and will help students to determine whether or not this system used in electing the president is valid. This excerpt has been modified to include defined vocabulary for the teacher and a reflection writing prompt for students.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Constituent Letters
This assignment is designed to challenge students to consider how they would respond as an elected representative, to various types of constituents. Students will be asked to provide written responses to six different letters from constituents from their “district.” For the purpose of this assignment, it is best if the students consider themselves to be members of the national government. Included are the following materials: -Assignment Instruction Sheet (including Constituent Letters) -Power
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Presidential Election Debate
Would you like your students to watch a presidential debate? This product can be used during an election year for current debates (during both primary or general election) or in a Government and/or History course for past debates. Included in this product is: 1. Editable Teacher Lesson Plan with Objectives, Lesson Context, Content/Vocabulary to Preview and Instructions. 2. Editable Presidential Debate Preview Questions and Teacher Notes3. Editable Presidential Debate Viewing Guide with space for
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Presidential Election Activities Bundle
Non-Fiction Reading: Tort Reform and the Infamous Coffee Case
This is a simple non-fiction reading for teachers to supplement their teaching on the judicial branch and state court system. This reading explains tort reform, the pros and cons to tort reform, and provides students with the opportunity to thoughtfully express their opinion. This excerpt has been modified to include defined vocabulary for the teacher and a reflection writing prompt for students.
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12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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House of Representatives WebQuest-- Who is Your Representative?
A WebQuest through the HR website that guides students into figuring out what district they live in, their representative and their background, and the current House leadership! Can be used as a homework assignment, independent research, or pre-learning activity.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Global - Primary/Secondary Sources - 14/25 - Imperialism Effects - 10th Grade
Twenty-five short-answer questions, worth 28 total points and spanning 17 pages, based on primary and secondary sources about the Age of Imperialism.These 17 pages of questions can be useful to any social studies curriculum based on world/global history. This assignment correlates to my 10th grade Unit 5 (Out of 20 total 10th grade units) of my reading and study guides for global history.Unit 5 (Age of Imperialism)Many of the following sub-topics are also covered: Social Darwinism, White Man's
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Biden & Trump Convention Speech: Analysis Worksheets & Answer Key
This product gives students an opportunity to close read each candidate's speech, analyze it, and evaluate its effectiveness. Both sets of worksheets have two parts. The first part has guiding questions to help students annotate the speech and then an opportunity to note their impressions in preparation for discussing it. The second part has analysis questions that help students evaluate the effectiveness of the speech. Answer key included. Students can complete this independently or in groups
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
SOCIAL STUDIES WRITING/RESEARCH PROMPT: AMENDMENT 12 : ELECTION OF US PRESIDENT
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE THAT CAN HAPPEN IN OUR NATION. A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE COULD CREATE A SITUATION OF NO MAJORITY IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS.
GOD BLESS AMERICA AND OUR SACRED CONSTITUTION!
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Non-Fiction Reading: An Electoral College Tie
This is a simple non-fiction reading for teachers to supplement their teaching on the elections process and the Electoral College. This reading has been modified for a generic Democratic or Republican candidate, discusses how the president is elected, the role of electors, and what happens if neither candidate receives 270 electoral votes. This excerpt has been modified to include defined vocabulary for the teacher and a reflection writing prompt for students.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Presidential Election Night Results
Assign your students to watch as much of the election night coverage as they can before going to bed. They can complete this tallying chart which includes all 50 states to keep track of the number of states won by each candidate. The number of electoral votes per state is also included. The next morning at school, you can give them the rest and they can put their calculators to use by totally up the electoral votes for each candidate. It will make a great eye opener for the morning after the
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Iron Jawed Angels Movie Discussion questions
These questions were assigned to my honors classes. They can easily be modified for in-class discussion. My honors students loved this movie!
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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2020 Presidential Debate- Guide To Watching A Debate
This is a great resource and guide on how to watch a presidential debate using the setting, techniques of persuasion, favorite phrases, rehearsed responses, cutaways, and post-debate analysis.
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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SOCIAL STUDIES WRITING/ RESEARCH PROMPT: THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
Is the Electoral College the way to go, in this day and age? This is a prompt asking the students to research, and provide their opinions. Happy Election Day, America!
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
SOCIAL STUDIES/CIVICS/GOVERNMENT/ WRITING PROMPT: CAMPAIGNING AND CALUMNY
This prompt asks the students to write their opinion on the two party system. Thanks for visiting the House of the Three Dinosaurs.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
CIVIL RIGHTS ERA VOCABULARY
CIVIL RIGHTS ERA VOCABULARY WORKSHEETGeneral Time Period: 1945-1980
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Current Events 2016 Election: Trumps's First 100 days
5 page article looks at Trump's plan for the first 100 days of his Presidency. 12 items to answer.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
Suffragette Movie Guide
This guide follows the movie as students watch. It can be used while they watch the movie or given as a short assignment at the end of the movie. The last two questions are essay questions and can be omitted or given to advanced classes. There are also questions that require outside research pertaining to the movie and the suffrage movement in general.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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2020 Vice-Presidential Debate Bingo
I always encourage my students to be involved in the political process! Here's a fun way to introduce debates to your students! This is a great homework activity that can lead to a great discussion the next day in class!
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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