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Election Product Projects

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Final Products:

 

Choosing a President

 

Explain the process of choosing a president:

 

Review:   BrainBop Video:

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/usgovernmentandlaw/presidentialelection/

 

You can play and pause the video.  You may want to take notes.  Many of your main answers can be found here.

 

Choose One

Write step-by-step "Guide to the Presidency"

Diagram and label the path to presidency.

Create a commercial in slides explaining each step of the process to become president.

Write an essay explaining how to become president.

Create a poster display of the process of choosing a president.

Give a speech to your class to explain the process of becoming president.

 

Create a recipe for how to become president.

Design a website requesting candidates for 2012 presidency which explains the process for them.

Create a 3-D diorama of representing the process to become president.

 

 

Informed Choice

 

Provide the pros/cons on the issues important to you that explain your possible choice of candidates.

 

Choose three products:  one from each row and one from each column.

Write a T-Chart for issues of importance to you that explains the pros/cons of your choice. 

Create a Venn Diagram for each issue of importance to you that explains the pros/cons of your choice. 

Create a collage or design symbols that explain the pro/cons of issues that help you make your choice.

Write an essay explaining the pros/cons of each issue that helped you make your choice.

Create a table (web or poster) explaining the pros/cons of each issue that helped you make your choice.

Give a speech as if you are your candidate providing the pro/con of the issues that helped you make your choice.

Write a December, 2009 news article of your candidate's first year in office as President as if he had solved the issues as you wanted him to, explaining what he did and the reasons why.

Design a campaign poster that explains your pro/cons of the issues helped you make your choice.

Create a dramatization or 3-D presentation of the pro/con of the issues that helped you make your choice.

 

Election Project Reflections

 

While researching the presidential process and your choice of candidate, create reflections on what you are learning.

 

Choose one product to complete/add to daily.

Create an outline of your daily activities and learning:

I Main idea

A. Date

B. Source(s)

Create a paper or wiki scrapbook of images that show what you have learned. Label each image with date/source/caption.

Write a daily diary with each entry including: date/action with source/I learned that...

Create a poster of references and main ideas you used for others to access. Include the date you used each reference.

Create a "Did you know" booklet of facts for the Presidency and the issues  by writing a daily "Did you know" question (include date/source).

Illustrate with captions a daily comic that explains what you learned (include date and source).

 

 

Rubric

 

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