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Looking for Election 2012 resouces and ideas

by katie

Sep 22, 2012

New to 4th grade and wonder what you will be doing with your students during election time.

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Dana On 9/22/12, katie wrote: > New to 4th grade and wonder what you will be doing with > your students during election time.

I'm studying to be a teacher at Purdue and I want to create a unit plan around the election. Here are my ideas so far: (I just started brainstorming yesterday so they are not at all organized yet)

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Sep 26, 2012

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SMW This may be a better resource for you than the students, but lots of information, news and features for education in general. You can look at the education section on the site and even reach out to them for ideas. I know there is an initiative to get this into High Scool social studies classes and college poli-sci courses.

On 9/26/12, Dan...See MoreThis may be a better resource for you than the students, but lots of information, news and features for education in general. You can look at the education section on the site and even reach out to them for ideas. I know there is an initiative to get this into High Scool social studies classes and college poli-sci courses.

On 9/26/12, Dana wrote: > On 9/22/12, katie wrote: >> New to 4th grade and wonder what you will be doing with >> your students during election time. > > > I'm studying to be a teacher at Purdue and I want to create a > unit plan around the election. Here are my ideas so far: > (I just started brainstorming yesterday so they are not at all > organized yet) > > Yertle the Turtle By Dr. Seuss > Kick start the unit with this read aloud > Focus on main idea (the importance of creating a democracy) > > Create a lesson explaining delegates. Why are delegates > important in Indiana government and the national government? > > Create a classroom bill of rights > Classroom constitution > > Literature for integrating Literacy and Social Studies: > > Yertle the Turtle (main idea) > My Teacher for President by Kay Winters (compare and contrast) > Duck for President by Bestsy Lewin > Daffy Duck for President Chuck Jones > Marvin Redpost - Class President by Louis Sachar > Who cloned the President by Ron Roy > We the Kids by David Catrow (Preamble simplified) > > Guided Reading: > Non-fiction: > Bring articles covering the election from an Indiana newspaper > (focus on fact and opinion) > Scholastic articles covering the election (I saw one last week > with Obama and Romney) > > > Bring in campaign ads for people running in local elections > (focus on main idea) > > Bulletin for President > Use leveled readers that focus on elections > Create an advertisement bulletin for a person discussed in the > story. Pretend you are in the same time period as the person. > You are the campaign manager. Included the following: > Why we the voters should vote for this person (3 reasons) > A slogan for the candidate > List what the person will do for people (3 things) > A picture of the candidate > (prob best for small group work) > > Discuss the history of voting in Indiana > I just found this awesome website today, it's an Indiana > magazine that is free to search. The articles go back to 1910 > [link removed] :)

Sep 26, 2012

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Kelly On 9/26/12, SMW wrote: > This may be a better resource for you than the students, but lots > of information, news and features for education in general. You > can look at the education section on the site and even reach out > to them for ideas. I know there is an initiative to get this into > High Scool social studies classes and co...See MoreOn 9/26/12, SMW wrote: > This may be a better resource for you than the students, but lots > of information, news and features for education in general. You > can look at the education section on the site and even reach out > to them for ideas. I know there is an initiative to get this into > High Scool social studies classes and college poli-sci courses. > > > On 9/26/12, Dana wrote: >> On 9/22/12, katie wrote: >>> New to 4th grade and wonder what you will be doing with >>> your students during election time. >> >> >> I'm studying to be a teacher at Purdue and I want to create a >> unit plan around the election. Here are my ideas so far: >> (I just started brainstorming yesterday so they are not at all >> organized yet) >> >> Yertle the Turtle By Dr. Seuss >> Kick start the unit with this read aloud >> Focus on main idea (the importance of creating a democracy) >> >> Create a lesson explaining delegates. Why are delegates >> important in Indiana government and the national government? >> >> Create a classroom bill of rights >> Classroom constitution >> >> Literature for integrating Literacy and Social Studies: >> >> Yertle the Turtle (main idea) >> My Teacher for President by Kay Winters (compare and contrast) >> Duck for President by Bestsy Lewin >> Daffy Duck for President Chuck Jones >> Marvin Redpost - Class President by Louis Sachar >> Who cloned the President by Ron Roy >> We the Kids by David Catrow (Preamble simplified) >> >> Guided Reading: >> Non-fiction: >> Bring articles covering the election from an Indiana newspaper >> (focus on fact and opinion) >> Scholastic articles covering the election (I saw one last week >> with Obama and Romney) >> >> >> Bring in campaign ads for people running in local elections >> (focus on main idea) >> >> Bulletin for President >> Use leveled readers that focus on elections >> Create an advertisement bulletin for a person discussed in the >> story. Pretend you are in the same time period as the person. >> You are the campaign manager. Included the following: >> Why we the voters should vote for this person (3 reasons) >> A slogan for the candidate >> List what the person will do for people (3 things) >> A picture of the candidate >> (prob best for small group work) >> >> Discuss the history of voting in Indiana >> I just found this awesome website today, it's an Indiana >> magazine that is free to search. The articles go back to 1910 >> [link removed] :)

Thanks for all the info! This stuff was great

Nov 3, 2012

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danny For post election info at grade level...[link removed]

Nov 9, 2012

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