Voting & Elections Lesson: Why Voting Matters, Grades 4-6

Why does voting matter? This voting and elections lesson starts with a choice every class knows: your class must pick a field trip, so who should decide? Students compare three ways to decide (one person, every student, or people the class chooses) and see why a democracy uses the last two.

What's inside

• 16 slides (PowerPoint, editable), with speaker notes on all 16
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student reading, 1 page
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• Print-all PDF, 6 pages

Answer key included

About 40 minutes, with a 25-minute version in the lesson plan.

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