Teaching Strategies
Think Pair Share
The strategy can be used to open up that conversation between students. The teacher can pose a question, students will think in their head about their answer. Share their thoughts with their partner and be able to share their ideas or their partner's ideas with the class.
Compare and Contrast
This strategy is used to look at the difference and the similarity between two items. In this curriculum, it will the difference or similarity of the Navajo Nation government and the United States government.
Compare and contrast how voting was conducted years ago and how it is conducted in todays society.
Technology
The use of technology in the classroom is a great way to visually show students an idea. The use of Brainpop can be used to show the different types of governments in the United States. Various kid-friendly YouTube videos can be found.
Practice
The use of the practice is also a great strategy that can be used. Where students can practice voting in a classroom setting. During this time a teaching moment may occur when a vote does not go the way some may have wanted it to go.
Books
Margraf, Rory. I Know My Rights: A Children's Guide to the Bill of Rights and Individual Liberty is a book that can be used to introduce the rights that citizens of the United States have in a kid-friendly way.
Stier, Catherine. Today on Election Day is a great book to helps students understand the process of voting.
Stier, Catherine. If I were President is a great book to get kids to think about the responsibilities of the president. A great activity for this book is to have the students think about the ideas if they were the president. What would they do, or what laws would they make? How would the White House look like?
Cronin, Doreen. Duck for President would be a good read for kids to understand how an election happens for a candidate.
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