Lesson Plan Template

Name: Alex Infusino and Rob Harkness Class/Subject: 6th Grade World History Electoral College Date: 10/29/2012 Student Objectives/Student Outcomes: Understand the importance of civic duty and voting The students should have a working knowledge of the Electoral College and local elections. Through a group activity, the students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of the Electoral College and use critical thinking in making positive changes to it. Content Standards: - 14.C.2 Describe and evaluate why rights and responsibilities are important to the individual 14.B.2 Explain what government does at local, state and national levels. 14.F.2 Identify consistencies and inconsistencies between expressed United States political traditions and ideas and actual practices (e.g. rights).

Materials/Resources/Technology: Pantheon Board PowerPoint School House Rock YouTube Clip Worksheet Teachers Goals: After the lesson students will be able to summarize the importance of voting. The students should also be able to validate and invalidate the Electoral College. After observing how the students handle the small group project, the teachers should be able to see whether the lesson was effective in teaching the Electoral

College. The teacher will see an understanding of the general functioning of the Electoral College Time

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Start of Class: Warm-up Worksheet for the week. The days word will be civic duty We will as a class we will read the definition and talk it out The Children will then come up with Synonyms/examples The class will then agree upon a Sentence The students will then have an Illustration

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Introduction of Lesson: We will state the objective of the lesson. The importance of continual civic engagement in your community, state, and country. The history of the Electoral college and how it came to be. The workings of the electoral college locally and nationally and why it is correct and incorrect. We will also let the students know how they are going to be able to apply it. *Start PowerPoint Lesson Instruction: Using their PowerPoint and video clips the teachers will present the information about the Electoral College including its history, the reasons to vote, and how it works at the local and national level. Then we will layout what the short project is for the day.

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Assessments/Checks for Understanding: The assessment will consist of breaking up into 6 or 8 groups depending on The size of the class. They will then create their own electoral system in these groups. They will then analyze their system based on questions on the worksheet. The questions will be: Will you have an age requirement? Why? Does every persons vote count equally? Why? What does your vote count towards, popular vote or electoral vote? How is your electoral system different than the current one? Closure/Wrap-Up/Review: Bring back to a class discussion on their own electoral systems and critique it as an entire class. Then we will discuss if this is better or worse than the Electoral college Self-Assessment: N/A

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