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Women's History Month elections - voting resources for Microsoft Excel
Gerrymandering Activity (Most Popular!)
A custom gerrymandering activity that will help your students understand how the same area can be gerrymandered for whichever party is in power. The exercise uses Los Angeles as an example. The exercise is set up with each excel square representing voters in a certain party. Students are instructed to create as many districts for each party as possible, while making sure each district is contingent and of equal amounts of voters. Students can work on their own or in pairs, using a pencil for out
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12th
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Wax Museum Schedule | Living Museum Project | Wax Museum Project
This living wax museum project is by far one of my favorite things about teaching 3rd grade. Truth be told this wax museum project can be used from 2nd grade all the way until 6th grade. Students take on the role of someone else, they dress up like an important historical figure and then they put on a show for their families and entire school It is a memory that is worth creating for your students! This is just one piece of the project (the letter to send to parents), but you can grab the bundle
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2nd - 5th
Also included in:Â Living Wax Museum Project
Social Studies, Government, History Computer Project: Electoral College in Excel
Welcome to my Electoral College Excel Project. During this project, students will learn how to create and manipulate information on 3 different spreadsheets. They will learn all about the history of the Electoral College from some awesome websites I discovered. They will create one spreadsheet with all the states, regions, # of electoral votes and how each state voted in the 2008 and 2012 elections. Did you know that there are 2 states electors are not required by law to vote with the popular m
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6th - 12th
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Election Analysis/Voter Behavior Spreadsheet
I created this Spreadsheet as part of a partner/group activity that analyzes election results based on demographic information. They will use to internet to find the information to complete the chart. The chart is not candidate specific so it can be used to analyze most any presidential election that data can be found for.
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Election Day Pixel art and Reading Comprehension
Students will read three informational texts about Election Day and the major voting amendments to the Constitution. After completing the response questions, they will put their answers into pixel art to reveal a self-grading, secret picture.
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4th - 8th
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US Geographic Heat Map Generator
Using simple VBA code, this versatile Excel tool generates multi-variate geographic heat map using data files downloaded from publicly available sources.Watch the Youtube video to see how it works:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJCgWko-2Bs
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AmerGovt: Voting Crossword Puzzle
A full page crossword puzzle, a full page answer sheet, and a page with all of the directional clues for the words. Great to use to supplement classroom instruction to introduce vocabulary or use as a pretest and posttest. Other uses include giving your students the crossword puzzle as you begin the unit of study and allowing them to work on it when they are finished early or have a moment at the end of class. Call for finished crosswords at the end of the unit or grading period and use as revie
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6th - 12th
Mock 2012 Presidential Election Voting Booth
This is a great mock presidential election program written in Excel. It notifies the voter that they have voted so the students can be sure their vote registered. It has a separate tab showing the voting tallies that can be easily reset if it being used for multiple classes. A final tab displays a 3D bar graph of the results. Both the tally tab and the graph tab can be toggled to at anytime. This is very user friendly and I am excited about using it in my classroom on Super Tuesday to let m
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2nd - 12th
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Bar Graph for Beginners (editable!)
This is a simple bar graph that will display basic data. It is editable so you can change the title & choices to suit your lesson. You can also adjust the width of the columns in order to add more choices for voting. If you fill in the data, it can even be used as an assessment. It is an excel document, so be mindful of the print area.
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1st - 2nd
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Civics/Government - Students' Elected Officials Spreadsheet
This "Elected Officials Student Template" can be used with any Civics / Government lesson - either for a 1 day assignment, or for a week-long lesson. This resource is perfect for when middle / high school students are researching state and federal laws, or local ordinances. Most state legislatures are back in session beginning spring 2024, so it is an ideal time to begin this lesson in civic engagement or how a bill becomes a law. Whether you teach in Colorado or elsewhere, you can change the na
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7th - 12th
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Cleopatra Word Search
Simple facts about Cleopatra in a word search format.
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1st - 3rd
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Civics Mock Election Polling Roster Sheets
Adds a little extra fun to the Mock Election.
I make students show their "Voter ID" at the door and sign in to vote.
I split the class in A-L and M-Z.
This template has the 2 pages for 6 periods in it. It's an Microsoft Excel file - I find this the easiest format to then copy and paste my student rosters in it.
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7th - 8th
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President crossword search
This is a crossword puzzle using the names of all of the U.S. Presidents.
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3rd - 12th
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
Diverse Children's Books Spreadsheet
This living document contains titles of diverse children's books. I have include amazon links for purchase as well as free YouTube read alouds! Be sure to re upload the document periodically, as I plan to continue to add great books. I hope you enjoy!
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Not Grade Specific
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2016 Presidential Election Candidate Survey FREEBIE!
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This is a spreadsheet that I created to go along with my class discussions about the upcoming presidential election. I have found that my students have very serious and very preconceived notions on who they would support if they could vote. With this spreadsheet, I'm challenging them to keep an open mind.
Note: I have tried to make everything as kid-friendly and simple as possible. However, you may want to use discretion
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4th - 8th
Government/Social Studies Vocabulary
The short worksheet includes 5 Vocabulary blanks to fill out vocabulary words relating to government, a sentence describing the word and a blank for the page number.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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9th - 12th
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2020 Election Electoral College Tracker
Color in the map as candidates win states, or track totals using the number line at the top.
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Not Grade Specific
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2020 Election Electoral College Tracker
Color in the map as candidates win states, or track totals using the number line at the top.
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AP Government Civic Engagement Project - Election Assessment extras
Template for Election teams
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9th - 12th
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