Political Parties & Elections - Common Core Lessons & Activities

How to Use this Book:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentation, and discussion in the activities as you desire you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

The Political Parties & Elections - Common Core Lessons and Activities is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use The Political Parties & Elections - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice These new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Tips:
Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge it to 125% on your copy machine.

Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson. The Political Parties & Elections - Common Core Lessons and Activities book includes:
Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
And More!

The Table of Contents for the Political Parties & Elections Common Core Lessons and Activities include:
Purpose of Political Parties: Reading Informational Text
The Democratic Party: Reading Informational Text
The Republican Party: Reading Informational Text
Republicans and Democrats: Compare and Contrast GO1
The Role of Third Parties: Reading Informational Text
Political Parties and Elections Vocabulary: Vocabulary GO10
Electoral College: Map Activity
Summer Schedule: Primary Source Analysis
Electoral College: Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Steps to Elect the President: Chronological Order GO8
Campaign Poster: Primary Source Analysis
The Role of Media in Elections: Reading Informational Text
Requirements to Become a U.S. Politician: Graphic Analysis G
Voter Turnout: Data Analysis
Campaign Slogans: Primary Source Analysis
2000 Presidential Election: Reading Informational Text
Importance of Voting: Primary Source Analysis
Campaign Costs: Data Analysis
Why Elections Matter: Cause and Effect
Right to Vote for Women: Primary Source Analysis
Common Core Correlations

GO: Graphic Organizers