OP 3: Elections
Wondering What to Study?????
Please review the Escambia School District Civics site that was created in collaboration with the Florida Joint Center for Citizenship.
It includes:
Student Review Reading for each standard
Three types of test questions that very in complexity
Vocabulary games
Additional resources that will help in learning the content for each standard assessed
Supplemental resource: (you can access the online textbooks by clicking on the launchpad link below)
Online textbook: https://launchpad.classlink.com/bayschools
-Discovery Education, Social Studies Techbook, Civics and Government
-Remy,Richard C, etl. Florida Civics, Economics and Geography. Bothell,WA: McGraw-Hill, 2013.
Chapter & Lesson:
SS.7.C.2.8: Chapter 10, Lessons 1-2 pgs. 283 – 302 and Chapter 11, Lesson 2 o Workbook pgs. 151 – 161
SS.7.C.2.9: Chapter 11, Lessons 1-2 pgs. 303 – 324 o Workbook pgs. 163 – 174
SS.7.C.2.7:Conduct a mock election to demonstrate the voting process and its impact on a school, community, or local level.
SS.7.C.2.8: Identify America's current political parties, and illustrate their ideas about government.
http://ecsd-fl.schoolloop.com/c28
SS.7.C.2.9:Evaluate candidates for political office by analyzing their qualifications, experience, issue-based platforms, debates, and political ads.
KIM Vocabulary
SS.7.C.2.8: bias, candidate, Communist Party, Democratic Party, government, Libertarian Party, party platform, political party, political system, Republican Party, Socialist Party, society, third party, two-party system
SS.7.C.2.9: candidate, elector, evaluate, issue based platform, natural born citizen, political office, political official, qualification, requirement, vote