7th grade elections - voting movie guides for Google Apps

So today, Craig is going to try to get inside the heads of voters by discussing how voters make decisions. Now obviously, like all decision making, voter decisions are influenced by a multitude of factors, but the three we are going to focus on today (and the three political scientists seem to think play the biggest role) are party loyalty, the issues involved in an election, and candidate characteristics. Now this all might seem like common sense, and well it sort of is, but it's important to b

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Crash Course Government #37 - Gerrymandering (Google Doc)

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Today Craig is going to talk about a topic that makes voters and politicians alike ANGRY! We're going to talk about Gerrymandering - that is the process in which voting districts are redrawn in a way to favor one party during elections. As you'll see, this is why election outcomes on Census years (which tend to be when districts are redrawn) are a really big deal. So we'll talk about how some of these cockamamie voting districts come to be and explain how Gerrymandering can affect the outcomes (

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Crash Course Government Elections and Voting Bundle (Google Docs)

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Viewing Guides with Answer Keys to the following episodes of Crash Course Government and Politics: #36 - Election Basics (5 pages) This week Craig is going to give you a broad overview of elections in the United States. So as you may have noticed, there are kind of a lot of people in the U.S, and holding individual issues up to a public vote doesn't seem particularly plausible. So to deal with this complexity, we vot

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Crash Course Government #36 - Election Basics (Google Doc)

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This week Craig is going to give you a broad overview of elections in the United States. So as you may have noticed, there are kind of a lot of people in the U.S, and holding individual issues up to a public vote doesn't seem particularly plausible. So to deal with this complexity, we vote for people, not policies, that represent our best interests. But as you'll see, this process was not thoroughly addressed in the Constitution, so there have been a number of amendments and laws at the state le

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Crash Course Government #39 - Political Campaigns (Google Doc)

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So political campaigns are a pretty big deal in the United States. For instance the 2012 presidential election clocked in at the most expensive ever - at around $6 billion dollars! Needless to say, money plays a very big role in American elections. So today, Craig is going to take a look at why we have campaigns in the first place, why the campaign seasons run for so long, and of course why campaigns cost so much. Viewing Guide with Answer Key. Google Doc compatible with Google Classroom, Canvas

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Crash Course Government #41 - Party Systems (Google Doc)

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Today, Craig is going to dive into the history of American political parties. So throughout most of United States history our political system has been dominated by a two-party system, but the policies and the groups that support these parties have changed drastically throughout history. There have been five, arguably six, party systems since the election of John Adams in 1796 (George Washington’s presidency was an unusual case, and we’ll get to that), so we’ll look at the supporters and policie

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Crash Course Government #42 - Interest Groups (Google Doc)

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Today, Craig is going to talk about something you fans out there have been demanding for months - money in politics. Specifically, we're going to talk about special interest groups and their role in the U.S. political system. Special interest groups are groups of individuals that make policy-related appeals to government - like the NRA, AARP, or the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. It's all pretty controversial, as money plays an important role in the policies and people these groups influence, so we'l

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An Election Redesign to Restore Trust in US Democracy TED Talk Lesson

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This resource is intended to be used with Tiana Epps-Johnson's TED Talk, An Election Redesign to Restore Trust In US Democracy. This TED Talk lesson makes a wonderful supplement to most middle and high school Social Studies, Civics, and American Government classes.TED lessons make great lesson plans on "sub days." Very little prep!This resource is editable. (Print as PDF for students or share Google Slides with students.)TED Talk Description:Election infrastructure in the United States is crumbl

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Crash Course Government #35 - Political Ideology (Google Doc)

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So today Craig is going to look at political ideology in America. We're going to focus on liberals and conservatives and talk about the influencers of both of these viewpoints. Now, it's important to remember that political ideologies don't always perfectly correspond with political parties, and this correspondence becomes less and less likely over time. So, sure we can say that Democrats tend to be liberal and Republicans tend to be conservative, but we're not going to be talking about politica

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Crash Course Government #33 - Public Opinion (Google Doc)

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So today, Craig is finally going to start talking about politics. Now up until this point we've specifically been looking at government - that is answering the questions of who, what, and how in relation to policies. But politics is different in that it looks at why certain policies are made. We're going to start today by looking at public opinion - specifically how the public does (and does not) influence our elected officials. Viewing Guide with Answer Key. Google Doc compatible with Google Cl

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