Presidential Election Project-Collaborative, Creative, & Analytical

Invigorate your classroom and excite your middle and high school students with the easy-prep and creative 22-page resource, Presidential Election Project-Collaborative, Creative, & Analytical. Students will use their collaborative, analytical, and creative skills to research and create a presentation about the two major-party candidates running for president. (It would be easy to add a third-party candidate as well.)

Complete with two lessons, the resource provides teachers and students everything they need to create a unique and interesting group project, including possible ideas they might want to consider, such as two cereal boxes devoted to the candidates with an ad, superhero dolls and a skit, debate, etc. In addition, there is an interactive lesson on what it means to collaborate in a group project with students coming up with descriptive behaviors of what engaging group work looks like, sounds, like, and feels like.

The project will take about 5-7 days to complete before presentation.

Presidential Election Project-Collaborative, Creative, & Analytical includes the following:

• a hyperlinked Table of Contents

• About this Resource-- an easy-to-use guide to everything you need to know about this resource

• a forced link copy to the Google Doc

• Common Core Literacy Standards in Reading Informational Text and Speaking and Listening

• Objectives and Learning Targets

• Essential Question:

  • How can we effectively and creatively analyze and present information about the candidates for the presidential election to inform and engage our audience?

• 3 Guiding Questions:

  • What are the key qualifications and characteristics that voters typically consider when evaluating presidential candidates?

  • How do the policies and platforms of the different candidates align with the concerns and interests of various demographic groups in our society?

  • What creative strategies can we use to present our analysis of the candidates in an engaging and informative way to our classmates?

• Resource for the Teacher and Students:

  • What are the key qualifications and characteristics that voters typically consider when evaluating presidential candidates?

  • How do the policies and platforms of the different candidates align with the concerns and interests of various demographic groups in our society?

  • What creative strategies can we use to present our analysis of the candidates in an engaging and informative way to our classmates?2 Lesson Plans: Election Group Project and Collaborative Group Work

  • Collaborative Group Work Example and Blank Copy

  • Election Group Project Student Directions

  • Election Group Project Presentation Rubric

  • Brainstorming for your Project: The Issues and where the Candidates Stand

  • Election Group Project Daily Accountability for Homework and Classwork

  • Individual Group Project Reflection

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Presidential Election Project-Collaborative, Creative, & Analytical