7th Grade Elections & Voting PowerPoint Presentations

This Digital PowerPoint lesson explains the non-biased basics of Voting and the Presidential Election. It provides a strong base of knowledge introducing students to the US government's election process and their civic duty to vote. The presentation has been carefully created just for children and what children want to know!

The presentation has been created in 8 Question/Answer Format slides making the information extremely simple to comprehend.

• When is election day?
• How often is the presidential election?
• Who can vote on election day?
• Where do you vote?
• How do I decide for whom to vote?
• How do they decide who's on the ballot?
• Why are states important on election day?
• Does the winning candidate start on election day?

In addition, there are 8 Visual Vocabulary slides providing the term, part of speech, bold photo, and easy-to-understand meaning.

• ballot
• political party
• Republican Party
• conservative
• Democratic Party
• liberal
• independent
• media

Enjoy!

This Product is also available in Google Slides

⭐️This unit is for General Ed Students, ELLs & Special Education Students⭐️

Are you searching for engaging and interactive learning opportunities for your higher level secondary students that are FUN and that you can use and scaffold with multilingual learns/ELLs and SpEd students at different levels? This VOTING & ELECTION UNIT includes enough lessons to last you 1-2 weeks! Your secondary students will have the chance to gain valuable knowledge about SOCIAL STUDIES content vocabulary all while working on developing skills such as vocabulary, speaking, reading, writing and much MORE!

This unit is a _⭐️_NO PREP***⭐️** with* TEACHER SLIDES & A PRINTABLE PDF WORKBOOK for students and teachers! Great for small group OR whole group!

Your Students Will:

• Develop vocabulary
• Learn about voting rights
• Learn about the electoral college
• Understand how to vote
• Understand the process of voting
• Understand voting systems and laws in the U.S.
• Analyze text
• Have scaffolds for ALL levels of students (tons of language frames, visuals, speaking practice, etc)
• Apply knowledge
• Practice speaking and listening skills while completing the activities
• Work on developing writing skills
• Discuss topics together with language frames
• Have great visuals on the screen as they go through with the teacher slides

This unit is PACKED with activities to engage your secondary Social Studies students. You will have everything you need to complete an AMAZING unit!

What’s Included:

• 75 pages of Teacher SLIDES!
• 52 page Student Workbook--PDF Printable--linked in slide 3 (also what the teacher will use)
• TONS of vocabulary & visuals
• Writing scaffolds
• QR Codes for reading comprehension activities
• Social Studies Content Vocabulary (voting, government, rights, citizenship)
• Writing, Reading & Speaking practice
• Scaffolds for multilingual ELL ESL students and special education students
• Engaging topics of citizenship and the voting process

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"See How They Run" By Susan E. Goodman: Election Info for Kids

This introductory PowerPoint lesson provides digital pre-reading information for the story’s author and genre. Bold photo visuals and engaging video clips support the story details. The lesson includes an in-depth vocabulary study, practice, assessment, and printable organizers.

This standard-aligned material is for use with whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms

PowerPoint Slides:

1. **Author Biography** We provide author biographies for each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the story in the context of the author's life experience.

2. **Setting**Highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links allowing students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time-period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.

3.**Bold Photos: ** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.

4. **Vocab with Concise Definitions and Part of Speech: ** Our lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context. Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.

Vibrant Vocab slides (privilege, eventually, version, compromise, amendments, commitment,democracy, legislation)

5.**Quizlet Practice Link ** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.

6. **Fun Fact Images and Videos** These features highlight unique elements of the text to aid comprehension**(Democracy and the Constitution)**

PDF FILE.

Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing printable worksheets to be used with the lesson!

**Grammar Sort**

Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.

**Connotation Sort**

Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.

**Context Clues Sentences, Word Bank and Key: **

Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.

**Vocabulary Organizer**

This worksheet allows the students to infer the meaning from the animated vocabulary slide. After students complete the organizer, it is a great reference sheet.

**Synonym and Antonym Word Study**

The graphic organizer allows the students to explore the variations in meaning of the new vocabulary word.

DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:

· Introduce new story

· Provide backstory to text

· Stimulate group discussion

· Create predictions about text

· Use as distance learning resource

· Post on webpage for review

· Add to electronic notebooks

· Provide test review

· Prompt Writing or Research assignments

· Grammar study / parts of speech

· Discuss Word Connotation

Please be sure to view the preview and watch the video for detailed images and descriptions of the lesson.

This lesson is also available in Google Slides.

Enjoy!

-From Kiwious About Vocab!