Description

Are you looking for a way to teach about voting and caucuses? Try a NON-PARTISAN simulation with your students! Your students will begin by playing a matching game on key vocabulary for the lesson. They will then examine artifacts related to voting and caucuses. Students will partner up to read about voting and caucuses while discussing guided reading questions. After your students have gained background knowledge about voting, it is time for the caucus simulation! Your students will determine what are important issues that they care about. Each “Faux” candidate will then give a brief speech encouraging voters to choose them. After the faux speeches, your students will participate in a caucus to choose their candidate.

Please note – this is a NON-PARTISIAN simulation. All candidates are fictional and do not represent, nor are they intended to represent, any current political candidates or parties.

With this resource, you will receive:

–Word Wall terms and matching activity for the lesson, including: political party, policy, platform, candidate, election, consent, ballot, and caucus.

–Artifact images for an Artifact Exhibition as well as recommendations for an artifact bag,

–Two-page reading on voting and caucuses with guiding reading questions,

-A faux ballot,

–Directions for a caucus simulation,

–Seven different faux candidates speeches to read with differing political parties,

–Signs for the political candidates,

-an Exit Poll.

⭐Please download the preview for a sample of the activity. ⭐

NEW Social Studies TEKS

(31) Social studies skills. The student uses problem-solving and decision-making skills, working independently and with others. The student is expected to :

(A) describe governmental and democratic processes such as voting, due process, and caucuses using simulations and models; and

(23) Social studies skills. The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including technology. The student is expected to:

(A) differentiate between, locate, and use valid primary and secondary sources such as technology; interviews; biographies; oral, print, and visual material; documents; and artifacts to acquire information about the United States;

(B) analyze information by applying absolute and relative chronology through sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions;

(30) Social studies skills. The student communicates in written, oral, and visual forms. The student is expected to:

(D) apply foundational language skills to engage in civil discourse about social studies topics, including those with multiple perspectives.

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© Social Studies Success® This purchase is for you and your classroom. Duplication for an entire school, an entire school system, or for commercial purposes is strictly forbidden. Please have other teachers purchase their own copy. If you are a school or district interested in purchasing several licenses, please contact me for a district-wide quote.

Please review all product descriptions and previews. If you have a question, contact me before you purchase at SocialStudiesSuccess1@gmail.com. As this is a digital product, all sales are final.

❤️ Dawn