Lesson 9: What is on your ballot, and where do you check? Printable pages
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Grades 6–8
Task: Match offices on a sample ballot to the everyday things they decide, then make a poster for families about finding their own ballot.
Students make: Matching sheet plus a poster.
One class period: 45 minutes. Full chapter: 86 minutes.
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Task: Write a nonpartisan explainer on one local contest: what the office does, what’s on the ballot, and where to verify.
Students make: Explainer, 250–350 words.
One class period: 50 minutes. Full chapter: 97 minutes.
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Task: Create a first-time voter guide for your state with an adult’s help, using only official sources.
Students make: Guide, 500–600 words.
One class period: 90 minutes. Full chapter: 137 minutes.
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Task: Write a nonpartisan voting-information guide for a student organization’s social accounts or a campus library display. Add a short note explaining how the guide avoids the problems in the creator’s voter guide.
Students make: Guide, 300–400 words, plus a note of about 100 words.
One class period: 75 minutes. Full chapter: 106 minutes.
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Family page Lesson 9: What is on your ballot, and where do you check?
In this case, a teen about to turn 18 finds local races on his ballot that his feed never mentions. Your student compared a sample ballot with a voter guide, then wrote a guide that points to official sources without telling anyone how to vote.
Questions to talk about
- What offices appear on a local ballot, besides the big races?
- Where can someone find official information about registering to vote?
- How can you tell a fact in a voter guide from a recommendation?
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