Making Civics Real: Workshop 2: Other Lessons. Other Lessons Blasing, a social studies instructor at LaCrosse High School, LaCrosse, Kansas, who also serves as a part-time faculty member in the social science department at Barton County Community College in Great Bend, Kansas, describes a lesson plan to help students formulate their own political opinions in an election campaign through a critical examination of political advertisements, candidate debates, and political cartoons.
Voting Is Essential by Rick Blasing "For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail? " Ralph Waldo Emerson The approaching election provides an opportunity to examine anew the chronic proportions of nonvoting in the United States. Social studies teachers have a unique opportunity to influence potential young voters by helping students develop an awareness of what is at stake in any given election--local and state as well as national. Provoking a Perspective: Helping Students to Create Their Own Political Opinions Back to the Top.
Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes - Procedure - Lesson Plans - For Teachers (Library of Congress) Back to Lesson Plans Lesson Procedure Lesson 1: Motivational, Brainstorming, and Vocabulary Activities Motivational Student Activity (10-15 minutes) Conduct a class vote for a current political candidate with only boys voting.
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