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Teaching Voting in the Social Studies Classroom

Passion for Social Studies

Are your government students excited for the upcoming election? This includes detailed lesson plans, PowerPoints, URLs to videos, and all activities. Luckily, these 11 lesson plans help make that happen! This is even the perfect unit for teaching AP United States Government and Politics!

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Political Socialization Lesson

Passion for Social Studies

Political Socialization Lesson Unfortunately, people are often easily influenced by external factors. Thankfully, this lesson helps students analyze the U.S. government critically using their own minds! Specifically, the 55-minute lesson plan has notes, handouts, activities, and videos that students will love!

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President Kennedy Station Lesson

Passion for Social Studies

During all of his government roles, Kenedy executed significant decisions. This included setting a goal to place an American on the moon and massive security decisions during the Cold War Luckily, the President Kennedy Station Lesson allows students to learn all about this fantastic individual in an exciting format!

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! We could engage in government simulations at GovGames or iCivics or Cyber Nations. government as well. Washington University in St.

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

This week, we dug into the foundations of the United States government and explored how early laws shaped the country’s growth. EduProtocols were front and center as we kept students engaged and active in their learning: Monday: Introduced The Tier List to rank government systems and used Iron Chef with Padlet to analyze types of governments.

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PROOF POINTS: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Government and Politics curriculum. It’s an open question whether large numbers of teachers will enjoy teaching detailed lesson plans created by curriculum designers. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. 6th grade science. Developer: Stanford University Research. Curriculum. High school Advanced Placement. We know it works.

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Inventing a Job-Skills Machine

ED Surge

The federal government has used this to standardize its job descriptions and to help employees identify new roles that might be a match for their talents. Industrial-organizational psychologists and other experts have been doing job and task analysis for decades on behalf of the military and the federal government. Housed in the U.S.