Branches of Government, Voting, and Elections SMARTBoard Unit

Government, Voting, and Elections SmartBoard Unit

Your grades 3-6 students will love learning about how our government is structured, the history of voting rights, and elections!

This interactive and engaging SmartBoard Unit (which will be updated before the 2024 election to reflect the current candidates for President and Vice President) is designed for teachers who have an actual SMART brand interactive whiteboard.

There are links to videos and a variety of activities, such as text reveal, true/false, sequencing, and draggable content. Students work in their packets to record responses.

If you have a different brand of interactive whiteboard, you might like my

Government, Voting, and Elections Google Slides Digital Unit

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

The 60+ page Smart Notebook file is full of engaging animations to keep students engaged as you discuss the content. There are links to videos and a variety of activities throughout the file, such as text reveal, magic magnifying glass, true/false, sequencing, and draggable content.

Along with the self-checking SmartBoard file, there is an accompanying PDF file with a 40+-page student packet to use to follow along and fill in the blanks as the teacher leads the lesson on the SMARTBoard. (Answer key included)

Also included are a variety of 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.

6. Printable Government Assessment

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

Thanks!

Cathy