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Free 7th grade elections - voting resources for Microsoft Word
EDITABLE kids election ballot
This simple editable kids election ballot makes election night dinner fun for kids. Kids choose each part of dinner. Fully editable to customize your menu.
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K - 8th
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Presidential Elections and the Electoral College Worksheet
This two page worksheet was designed to go along with my PowerPoint on the electoral college, also available on TpT. This worksheet includes 12 response questions which feature charts, complete the sentences, and open response questions.
The download also includes an answer sheet which references the slide number the corresponding information can be found on.
Accompanying PowerPoint is available for $2.50 on TpT
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5th - 12th
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Democrats and Republicans: An overview WORKSHEET
This is a free download to accompany the PPT titled, "Democrats and Republicans: An overview".
The PowerPoint is highly visual and allows students to investigate the differences in the two major political parties in our country. follow along with the slides as they complete this worksheet. Can be easily modified for various grade levels.
On the PPT, there is information and graphics to discuss:
1) platforms of both democrats and republicans,
2) a left-to-right historical political spectrum (
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2nd - 12th
I Do Solemnly Swear...(Statistics Project)
This is a statistics project that can be modified to fit grades 6 to 12. This can also be done by hand or in excel. It would be a great assignment to use as a unit project or as a group presentation. It is a cross curriculum activity that will combine history and math together to give the kids a great way to explore box and whisker plots, bar graphs, pie charts, and more. Because this is statistics, you can change the way the graphs are created to fit the need of the course you are teaching!
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6th - 12th
Electoral College Map
Electoral College Map. Students will label the number of electoral votes per state, answer questions, and an optional activity of coloring the 2016 election results. Answer key included.You may also like:Constitution JeopardySupreme Court & SchoolsThree Branches of Government BundleColonial Conference & How to BookNational Treasure Movie GuideColonial BiographiesCivil War and Reconstruction JeopardyU.S. Citizenship Test
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5th - 9th
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Federalists v. Democratic-Republicans T-Chart
The first two political parties of the United States with their leaders, basic principles, and supporters.
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5th - 12th
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Current Events: News Reporter
Add Current Events into your daily routine. Set up a class calendar and assign a daily news reporter. Students use the planner and write or record a news video for the class. There is also a student self-evaluation rubric for grading. My class looks forward to the daily reports. We do ours right after the morning announcements. Takes 4-7 minutes to share and discuss. Activity can be adapted to suit any grade.
Grades:
2nd - 8th
Women Want the Vote! - Woman's Suffrage Worksheets II
September 5, 2015
Dear Teachers:
My name is Emily, and I am a Junior Girl Scout in the Texas Oklahoma Plains Council. I am completing these worksheets as part of my Girl Scout Bronze Award Project.
I became interested in woman's suffrage when my mother was teaching a unit on the history of woman's suffrage to her gifted and talented students at school. I asked my fifth grade teacher why we couldn't study woman's suffrage in social studies. She told me that there wasn't enough time to study
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3rd - 10th
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Political Party Poster
Create your own party! You are going to create a brochure or poster for a political party of your choice. You are going to make up a political party of your choice. Determine which part of the political spectrum you wish to occupy. Remember: you can sway left or right on each issue, but no dramatic shifts.
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6th - 11th
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Constitution Primary Source Document Analysis
Students analyze Article 2, section 1 of the constitution. They are asked to look for specific content, and then are asked to make inferences about the document. A timely and easy lesson for students to understand our political system.
This could also be a nice intro to a discussion about the Electoral College, and its merits.
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5th - 10th
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Election Ballot Box Index Card File
This activity consists of a pattern to create a 2 dimensional "ballot box" pocket folder that will be used to store index cards, as well as a set of questions/labels for the index cards. Students will answer questions about the election process, the presidency, or other questions that the teacher chooses (question labels are reprogrammable) on the index cards. The cards can be used as the basis for a written report or as the report itself. They can also be used as a study guide or as an asses
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2nd - 8th
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Political Cartoon Project
Students will learn about the different components of a political cartoon and create their own. Can be used in any secondary class (high school or middle school) and easily adapted to any topic.
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5th - 12th
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4th Amendment Supreme Court Case Analysis
This is a GREAT activity while studying the 4th Amendment and students' 4th Amendment rights at school.
This class activity incorporates the Supreme Court Case of New Jersey v. T.L.O. and its effect on students' 4th Amendment rights while at school.
This handout is two pages long.
The first page gives a brief description of the New Jersey v. T.L.O. court case and encourages students to do further research before answering the guided research questions which follow.
The second page instructs
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7th - 12th
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Women Want the Vote! - Woman's Suffrage Worksheets I
September 5, 2015
Dear Teachers:
My name is Emily, and I am a Junior Girl Scout in the Texas Oklahoma Plains Council. I am completing these worksheets as part of my Girl Scout Bronze Award Project.
I became interested in woman's suffrage when my mother was teaching a unit on the history of woman's suffrage to her gifted and talented students at school. I asked my fifth grade teacher why we couldn't study woman's suffrage in social studies. She told me that there wasn't enough time to study
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4th - 10th
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Campaign Ad Project
Students create a TV spot using Youtube or Vimeo to demonstrate their understanding of parties & interest groups. They must also exhibit understanding of propaganda techniques that we've studied in class by watching examples from the Living Room Candidate website. To that end, students must incorporate one or two techniques in their ad.
Time allotted for students - about a week, with a day of in-class lab time
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7th - 12th
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Political Ideology - Janus Figure
Have students compare their political ideology using a Janus Figure. Students are to create consevative and liberal bodies that utilize current issues and propagnada to develop a two headed political figure. This activity can be adapted for American History or World History when comparing ideology types. For Example Free market vs communism.
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7th - 12th
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Netflix Documentary Series: Whose Vote Counts? Explained. Episode 1 Questions
Hello, This is a student participation question guide to follow along with Episode 1 of the documentary series on Netflix called "Whose Vote Counts."Check back later for more episode question guides!
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Black History Month in Spanish
Please check out my youtube channel “Teaching Juntos” for lots of cool resources. Here is a link to a fun video lecture I made about reformers in Spanish: https://youtu.be/qiJdkL5ziOwStudents take notes on the video then answer the questions found in the description of the video. Here is a video about black history month in Spanish: https://youtu.be/dyxZEpLdveo
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5th - 12th
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Student Election/Voter Bingo Game
This is a Fun and hands on approach to learning key terms associated with elections! This activity is especially relevant around election time. Students use the game of bingo to review key terms such as ballots, election, tally, republican, democrat, mayor, president, etc.
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K - 7th
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Civics Mock Elections Precinct Signs
Just some signs to add to the atmosphere of your Mock Election.
Voter Sign In A - L
Voter Sign In M - Z
Voting Booth
Insert Ballot Here
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7th - 8th
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Civics Elections Unit Test
Goes with the "Civics Elections Unit Plan"
Covers these topics:
> Political Parties and their Platforms
> Types of Elections
> Types of Propaganda and Watchdogs
> Influences in Government: Interest Groups, Lobbyists, PACs
> How Citizens can Influence Government
Includes:
- Multiple Choice
- Sentence Completion
- Short Answer
- Document Based Questions
- In-text citation
Follows FL Civics EOC Standards: SS.7.C.2.8, SS.7.C.2.9, SS.7.C.2.10, SS.7.C.2.11, SS.7.C.2.13
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7th - 8th
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My Presidential Cabinet
This is a worksheet for students to pick out their own presidential cabinet. They can pick from anyone they know for each position. Great to follow a lesson on these positions. *The profits from my page will be donated to the organization Volunteer for the Visayans. This organization, among many things, works to help children in the Philippines receive a quality education. Having personally worked in country with this program I can attest to the great work they do and the lives they have saved.
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4th - 7th
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Presidential Challenge Scavenger Hunt
This is a 20 question worksheet about the Presidents of the United States. It asks about general trivia and interesting facts about the Presidents. Included with the questions are 100 facts about the Presidents where the answers can all be found, as well as an answer sheet.
The questions could also be used on their own as a research tool in cooperation with other books or technology.
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5th - 8th
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Student Debate - Civics Government
In this activity your students will research and present a 'televised debate' 4-6 students will be candidates, 6-9 will be issue advisers who do research on specific topics and help prep their candidates, the rest of your students will be in groups who will use opensecrets.org to research how interest groups spend their money. These students will pick an interest group to represent and will create a commercial with props that they will 'air' during the class debate. The document includes the cla
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Grades:
7th - 12th
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