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Title of Unit: The importance of voting

Title of Lesson: The campaign strategy Submitted By: Jennifer Nelson

Nevada State College EDEL 453 - Spring 2013 Karen Powell- Instructor page 1

A.  Summary of the Lesson Plan:

After viewing campaign commercials and guided research within paired groups, students

will take a closer look at how the candidates run their campaign and some strategies that

they use within their campaign.

B.  Target Population: 

  Grade Level: 4

  Skill Level: All learning levels

  Grouping: 

o  Warm up-students work individually

o  Commercials-whole group

o  Campaign strategies-pairs

o  Wrap up-small groups

C.  Materials: 

  Student journals

  Analyzing a campaign ad worksheet

  Resources for campaign strategy research worksheet

D.  Objectives:

o  NV State Social Studies Standards

  C15.4.3 Compare sources of information people use to form an opinion.

  C14.4.2 Name the current President of the United States 

o  Student-Friendly Standards

  I will name the current President of the United States.

  I will compare sources of information people use to form an opinion.

E.  Procedure: 

1.  Warm up- This lesson will start with me asking the students “Who is the current Presidentof the Unites States?” “How did they become President?” Students will then do a

writing prompt, how do candidates try to win an election? How do they try to sway

voters? Students will write in their journals. The class will then discuss.

2.  As a class, we will watch two short television commercials, one representing each

campaign. I will hand out the Analyzing a campaign ad worksheet. For each

commercial the students will write down what images they see in the ad. Are there

photographs of people or places? Are they in color or black and white? Are they

vivid or grainy? If there are words written on the screen, what do they say? Then

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watch the commercial again. What sounds do they hear? Is there a speaker or a

narrator? Is there music? Do you think that the commercial is effective? Why or why

not.

3.  Students will then get into pairs. Students will research one or more campaignstrategies that candidates use, as a guide; students will use the campaign strategy

research worksheet and work at research stations around the room.

4.  CLOSURE: Students will sit in their groups and discuss what they found interesting about

their research.

F.  Assessment: 

  What will you use to measure student understanding?

I will collect the worksheets and read through their journals.

  Explain how you will know students understand the concepts from the lesson.

I will see if the students grasp the concepts if they answer and fill out the worksheets

correctly, and if they wrote about what they found interesting in their journals.

G.  Reflection: 

1. Which part of the lesson do you think will be the easiest for you to teach?

I think that having the students work in pairs, and guiding the students through their 

research.

2.  Which part will be most challenging for you to teach?

Keeping the lesson student centered and inquiry based.

3.  How will you follow up or extend this lesson? 

I will have students create a campaign speech.

4.  What will you do for students who don’t grasp the concepts? 

Pair them up and help them individually as needed.

5.  Which part of the lesson, if any, do you think might need to change? 

I like this lesson; however I think that it needs a fun activity.

6.  When you were writing this lesson plan, what was the most difficult part? 

I think that prioritizing time.