Voting & Elections Lecture & Notes Kit
$6.00
Confidently teach the basics of voting and elections in the US with this complete lecture kit.
It comes with ready-to-go guided notes, a test question bank, and a slide-by-slide teacher script.
Description
If you’re brand new to Civics or need to upgrade what you have, this is ready-to-go and fully loaded for you!
Challenge your students to see the why and how of this complicated and constantly changing but also deeply cherished right with this slide deck kit.
84-Slide Lecture
- Clean, modern look in Google Slides (1-click download to PowerPoint)
- Extensive teacher scripts on every slide
- Embedded animations to focus attention
- “Pause and Talk” reflection & processing questions at the end of each segment
Student Notes Packet
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- 7-Page Guided Notes for processing and reviewing content
- Print PDF and Google Doc files
- Answer Key
38-Question Test Bank
- Easily copy/paste questions to build quizzes and formative checks natively into your LMS or other platform
- Fill-in-the-blank, short-answer, and open-ended questions included
- Answer key included too!
This lecture covers:
- What it means to vote in a representative democracy
- When various groups got the right to vote
– Universal Male Suffrage
– 15th Amendment’s limitation
– Women’s Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
– Civil Rights Movement & Voting Rights Act
– 24th and 26th Amendments
– Recent access to overseas and disabled Americans - Evolution of Ballot Casting
– Ballotas, open and ticket voting, punch sheets, vote by mail - Types of Elections
– General, Primary, Caucus, Special elections - Current-Day Issues & Solutions
– Registration logistics, Same-Day and Pre-Registration
– Voter’s pamphlets, translated election materials
– In-person, Early, and Absentee or Vote-by-mail voting
– Machine voting
– Private vs public voting
– Compulsory voting, Voter turnout by demographics
This resource is 84 slides, 7 PDF pages, plus Google files.
What grades is this intended for?
This was designed for high school.
What supports are included? How can I modify this?
Lecture slides each have extensive notes/teacher scripts. Guided notes provide student scaffolding.
Google versions of student materials and lecture slides are editable to tailor to your students’ needs.
Can I use this in a homeschooling setting?
Sure! While a lecture tends to imply a large-group setting, these slides can still just as easily be used for self-paced independent learning.
Is this editable? What file types does this resource come in?
The lecture slides have editable text fields, but the backgrounds are secured. The slide deck is a Google Slides file that can be easily downloaded as a PPT.
The guided notes come in both a secured, non-editable PDF file intended to be printed and an editable Google file.
The test bank is an editable Google file to allow you to copy and paste questions to form your own assessments natively into your LMS.
What standards does this address?
Several! Standards vary, but this resource supports these from various states:
- Explain how voting rights and citizenship have changed over time in US history (15th, 19th, and 24th amendments)
- Describe historical political movements (Civil Rights and Women’s Suffrage Movements) and their impact
- Describe ways in which the right to vote can be denied or limited
- Explain the process of registering to vote and the differences between types of elections (primary, caucus, special)
- Analyze current-day issues with voting and voter turnout
What are the terms of use for this resource?
This resource, including all ancillary files, may be used as needed for regular, non-commercial single-classroom use between a teacher and their students.
This includes printing copies and sharing digital files with students through a secure platform, like Google Classroom or Canvas, email, or a classroom-only shared drive.
The using and sharing of any part of this resource in any manner outside the above-mentioned capacity is strictly prohibited. Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to,
- posting files on the open internet or in a Facebook group
- emailing files to or sharing print copies with others (without purchasing additional licenses)
- uploading or storing files in a shared cloud drive accessible by anyone other than students
- including any part, or any derivative work, within any commercial endeavor like curriculum development, professional training, or for-profit teaching like Outschool, or selling this resource as your own in either print or digital formats
Doing so violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), copyright law, and these terms.
By downloading this resource from Let’s Cultivate Greatness, the original user has been granted one license for a single teacher (or number of teachers matching the number of licenses purchased) and their students at any one time.
Let’s Cultivate Greatness retains the full copyright of this resource.
