It was an epic Election Day battle in fourth
grade. Today, the students got to vote for their favorite candydate (a.k.a. candidate
See what we did there?!). Their choice?
Crunch or Skittles
The students have been learning a month-long
unit about the three branches of government and the election process.
Yesterday, Ms. Fiet assigned students a state. With
each state, the student got the actual number of electoral votes that the state
gets for the general election. Each student represented their state in the candy
election.
This morning, the students made their official
choice by filling out their ballot.
They then filled out the electoral map and the
digital map. They colored the electoral map to reflect their choice. Red was
for Skittles and blue was for Crunch.
After each ballot had been cast, the
announcement was made that Crunch won 328 to 210.
The election unit was concluded with a Dr. Seuss
story called One Vote, Two Votes, I Vote, You Vote. This was truly a “sweet”
lesson in American politics.
To view all of the pictures from the day, please
click the following link.
Emma has truly enjoyed learning about the 3 branches of government and about the election process, especially the non-partisan mock election. We all loved hearing about the engaging and interactive classroom activities you used to help inform, motivate, and develop her understanding of the voting and electoral process. It was a very educational unit…thank you!
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