Subject:  Social Studies
                Math
                Language Arts

Learner Outcomes:
· Students will identify past campaign issues/promises.
· Students will identify current campaign issues.
· Students will identify  issues of importance within their school environment.

Duration of Lesson:  45-60 minutes

Materials:  newspapers, current events magazines, pencils, paper

Technology Tools/Courseware:  multimedia computer with Internet connection and projection device;  Microsoft Office 2000 software.

Teacher Notes:
· Have newspapers/current events magazines available for students to highlight and/or clip.  Some newspapers provide
  complimentary copies for classroom use.
Procedures:
· Use computer with Internet and projection device to visit the following sites for students to view famous campaign highlights.
         historychannel
         webcorp
         whitehouse
· Review newsprint media for current campaign issues. Students should highlight and/or clip out articles of significance. This
  could be done as a partner activity with two students working together.
· Brainstorm (gather ideas)  issues affecting the school setting, such as longer lunch periods.  Have a student list them on the
  board. This is done as an entire group activity.
· Prioritize the issues affecting the school setting by show of hands.  Have a student put the prioritized list on the board.  This
  is an entire group activity.
· Use Microsoft Office or other comparable software  to create a class graph of issue importance using the results of
  the prioritized list.  Teacher may also choose to draw the graph by hand on large posterboard.

Modifications:
· Pair special needs students (ex:  learning disabled and mentally impaired students) with a peer tutor.
· Seat students with visual/hearing impairments close to projection area.
 

Enrichment Activities:
· Ask students to bring in clippings of campaign issues (past and/or present).
· Have students watch nightly newscasts for candidate ratings in the polls.

Evaluation/Assessment:  Participation in class viewing of campaign highlights, completion of group graph of issue importance.

West Virginia Instructional Goals and Objectives:

Study Skills:  4.45, 4.46, 4.49, 4.52
Social Studies:  4.2
Reading Comprehension: 4.31
Reading Vocabulary: 4.46, 4.47
Math:  4.27, 4.23, 5.23, 5.26, 5.54
Listening/Speaking:  4.13, 4.14, 4.15
Language Arts:  5.12, 5.15, 5.16, 5.62, 5.33, 5.98, 5.172, 5.17

Civics:
*Understands issues concerning the disparities between ideals and reality in American political and social life.         Language Arts:
*Gathers and uses information for research purposes.
*Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies of the reading process.
Math:
*Understands and applies basic and advanced concepts of statistics and data analysis.

Author:
· Kathy Frazier
· Belinda Metz
· Debbie Scritchfield

Ravenswood Grade School
 
 
 
 

Overview

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