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Elections - voting Common Core SL.11-12.1 resources
Empowering Voices: Navigating Civic Engagement for Tomorrow's Leaders
Empowering Voices: Navigating Civic Engagement for Tomorrow's LeadersProduct Description:Unlock the power of democracy in your classroom with the "Civic Engagement & Voting: Empowering Tomorrow's Voters" resource pack. This comprehensive toolkit is designed to enlighten students about the significance of civic participation, the impact of each vote, and how communities across the nation mobilize to shape their futures through elections.What’s Included:Detailed Lesson Plan: A step-by-step gui
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7th - 10th
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Battleground States: Tug-of-War for Hearts, Minds, Votes
It’s an election year and what an exciting one it is proving to be! With the presidency and control of the Senate up for grabs, what better way to start 2024 than running presidential and senatorial campaigns in your own classroom. If that sounds good, then this simulation is for you.I have boiled down the campaigns to their essentials. But here’s the twist: your students will only vote in the 5 presidential and 6 senatorial Battleground States (the ones that will decide the outcomes in both cas
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8th - 12th
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Voting Mock Election Day Activities - Ballot Proposition Research Project
Explore real initiative propositions on the ballot for Election Day with this mock voting activity project with an authentic PBL project.Students research one of your state's own ballot measure propositions, hold a class discussion, write letters to the editor, and vote!There’s a lot of flexibility to tailor to your upcoming local election, students’ interests, and time constraints. This kit works year after year with any ballot proposition. Highly scaffolded with critical thinking and source sk
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9th - 12th
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It's Not a Salamander; It's a Gerrymander
Reapportionment and GerrymanderingThis project allows you and your students to explore and understand how congressional districts are created, why it is important who controls the state legislatures and the nature of partisan and racial gerrymandering. Students will be making their own maps and in doing so they have the option to create more fair districts (or less fair ones, if you want.)There is also a lesson on racial gerrymandering which is an ongoing issue in our country with a number of ca
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9th - 12th
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Civic Engagement "Dear Neighbor" Project
This is an amazing three-ish day project about Civics, Persuasive Writing, Collaborative Revision, and Public Speaking! Overall project flow:* Students reflect on their priorities, biases, and reasons for supporting their chosen candidate in an upcoming election.* Students peer-edit their letters, revising arguments for grammar and persuasive power.* Teams of students campaign for their chosen candidate, collaborating to write a Platform Speech they present to the class.* As campaign staffers,
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Presidential Debate on the Environment
YOUR SIDE OR MINE? PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
This lesson is designed for an Environmental Science, Ecology, or Biology class to engage students in the political process. I teach Environmental Science in Georgia, so I included the appropriate standard. You can edit to include your proper standard. As the Overall Significance (real-world application) of the lesson states, “We are in the middle of a political season and many people are not paying attention to the political stances of each of the presid
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9th - 12th
Mock Election Bundle
Understanding the election, the voting process, and branches of government can be challenging! If you're looking for an interactive way to help your students grasp election processes, suffrage, and voting rights, this bundle is your answer!With this bundle, you can lead your students through a "mock election" where they can understand the struggle many individuals have had on the journey to vote!Fight For The Right To Vote: This is the preview video quest that helps students understand voting ri
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4th - 10th
One-Minute Introduction PBL & Rhetorical Analysis - (Distance Learning)
While the 3rd Democratic Presidential Debates took place on September 12, 2019, the historical impact of the 2020 election will be felt and remembered for generations. This one-minute introduction PBL projects requires AP students (with 2020 revisions & curricular links) to apply their knowledge of rhetorical modes, appeals, devices, and elements of rhetorical analysis using the SPACE-CAT technique. Students will first conduct analysis of each one-minute intro. This will lead to students wri
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Debate Viewing Guide: Template for Any Political Debate or Candidate Discussion
One of the best ways to help students become engaged and informed on the current issues of the day is by watching the most recent political debates. Whether it be a general election, primary race, gubernatorial race, senate, or even a presidential race, students love hearing the arguments and debate between the candidates. I have used this format for years and it is a proven way to help my students follow along with the issues of the day. Students get to hear how candidates have such differin
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Template for Civic Engagement "Dear Neighbor" Letter
This is the template I created to engage my neighbors re: 2020 Election season. I shared my background and biases, my top priorities, and who I am supporting in this year's election. It's part of an amazing three-ish day project about Civics, Persuasive Writing, Collaborative Revision, and Public Speaking! See my Implementation Guide for more details!This project is an amazing way to have students think about their priorities, learn to get involved, learn their ward number and local election
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Civic Engagement "Dear Neighbor" Project
Mock Election Reflection
If you've decided to create a mock election in your classroom to model the election or to help students understand the voting process, this Mock Election Reflection is a great way to recap the lesson(s), see their thinking processes, and assess what they've learned. This resource pairs well with the Mock Election: Ballots & Voter Cards.This resource can also also be introduced with the Fight For The Right To Vote Activity.*Note: You can find all of these resources in the Mock Election Bundle
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4th - 11th
Also included in: Mock Election Bundle
Fight For The Right To Vote! (Voting Rights/Suffrage & Mock Election Activity)
In this activity, students will learn what groups were discriminated against in the voting process and how long it took for individuals to have the right to vote! Exploring suffrage through an interactive TED Education video and scaffolded notes, this is a great preview to talking about the election or for having a mock election in your classroom.This resource pairs well with the Mock Election: Ballots & Voter Cards.This resource can also also be summarized with the Mock Election Reflection.
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4th - 10th
Also included in: Mock Election Bundle
"How to lead a conversation between people who disagree" TED Talk Worksheet
This is a set of questions for viewing and discussing Eve Pearlman's TED Talk, "How to lead a conversation between people who disagree." Worksheet comprises a series of questions designed to have students define terms, track main ideas, make inferences, analyze language and quotes, and reflect on Pearlman's talk. Link to the talk and time stamps are included to help with tracking content; video is approximately 10 minutes long. 15 questions total, which can be easily modified if you want to f
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9th - 12th
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Discussion-Based Lesson: Should the US Lower the Voting Age?
This lesson is part of the Seminar curriculum launched in 2022 at the Khan World School, in partnership with ASU Prep at Arizona State University. Through Seminar, students gather daily to engage in Socratic-style discussions about the challenges of today's world, from current events to social and political issues to philosophical and scientific debates.Our team at the Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change (RISC) at UChicago designed and wrote the materials for each Seminar. Each Semin
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Discussion-Based Lesson: How Much Should We Spend on Elections?
This lesson is part of the Seminar curriculum launched in 2022 at the Khan World School, in partnership with ASU Prep at Arizona State University. Through Seminar, students gather daily to engage in Socratic-style discussions about the challenges of today's world, from current events to social and political issues to philosophical and scientific debates.Our team at the Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change (RISC) at UChicago designed and wrote the materials for each Seminar. Each Semin
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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