Every Four Years...The Presidential Election Unit Bundle

Election season is upon us! Every Four Years...The Presidential Election Unit, a comprehensive 204-page resource, offers an easy one-stop solution for teaching the election cycle to your middle and high school students. From learning about how a president gets elected, starting with the primary season in United States Presidential Election Process- Primaries to the Electoral College, to how propaganda influences voters and future voters in Propaganda & Political Campaign Ads- Close Viewing Analysis & Written Reflection, and everything else these 11 resources offer you, this election unit has everything a busy teacher needs to educate and excite your students. Critical thinking, thoughtful texts, vocabulary development, and short writings, reflections, and essays as well as a group project, offer students opportunities to discuss, reflect, and be engaged in this important feature of our democracy and a central duty of citizens.

Utilizing the Into, Through, and Beyond lesson planning model, this unit can be used as a standalone teaching tool or as a supplement to your current curriculum. Lessons, 2-7, also fit well within a unit on the Constitution. Each lesson includes an introduction, learning objectives, standards, detailed instructions, and relevant charts, readings, questions, and answer keys. Some lessons come with summative assessments and rubrics, and they can be adapted to accommodate English Language Learners, students with IEPS and struggling readers.

Here is a summary of my whole unit: Every Four Years...The Presidential Election Unit Into Lessons: Creating Schema

• Lesson 1: The U.S. Presidential Election: Anticipation Guide, Questions, Discussion
• Lesson 2: 12 Essential Election Terms for Middle & High School- Vocabulary Strategies
• Extra: 12 Essential Election Terms Color by Number Vocabulary Review for Middle School
• Lesson 3: What are your Political Viewpoints? A Survey for Middle and High School Students

Through Lessons: Learning the Content

• Lesson 4: Major & Minor Political Parties in US History & Modern Times- Text and Questions
• Lesson 5: A Brief History of Who Can Vote in the United States, Text, Terms, Questions
• Lesson 6: United States Presidential Election Process- Primaries to the Electoral College
• Lesson 7: Propaganda & Political Campaign Ads- Close Viewing Analysis & Written Reflection
• Lesson 8: Where do the Candidates Stand on the Issues? Research and Analyze their Websites

Beyond Lessons: Summative Assessments

• Lesson 9: Argumentative Letter to the Editor on a Candidate or Mandatory Voting and Rubric
• Lesson 10: Presidential Election Group Projects- Collaborative, Creative, and Analytical

The lessons can be used independently as a supplement to what you already teach or as a whole.  During non-election years, most of these lessons are appropriate for a unit on the Constitution.

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