Voting & Elections Lesson: Be an Informed Voter, Grades 4-6

How do you choose well when people ask for your vote? This lesson starts with two invented candidates for a class job and one question: which statement tells you more about the job they would do? Students find out that some statements can be checked and others cannot.

What's inside

• 17 slides, with speaker notes on all 17
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student reading, 1 page
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• Print-all PDF, 6 pages (lesson plan, reading, worksheet and answer key together)

Answer key included

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