Voting & Elections Lesson: The Electoral College, Grades 4-6

How is the President chosen, and why is it not just a count of every vote? This Electoral College lesson opens with two ways to count a school vote: add up every student's vote, or count class by class. Students see that choosing the President works in a way like the second one.

What's inside

• 18 slides, with speaker notes on all 18
• 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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