Lesson Plan on Laws and Election Process

Lesson plan on Laws and the election process
3rd grade social studies

Lesson Plan Goals on laws and elections
To understand why communities need laws
To identify the parts of the election process

Teaching/Learning Procedures of lesson plan on laws and elections:

Lesson Motivation/Introduction

• Ask students the following question: What do you think this school would be like if we had no rules?
• Call on a few students to give an answer to the question. Discuss this scenerio.
• Say "Communities must have rules too. These rules are called laws. Lets read about laws."

Teaching/Learning Activities

• Students will take turns reading pages in textbook aloud. After each page we will briefly discuss what was just read by answering discussion questions orally.
• Pass out vocabulary review terms to students (election, candidate, laws, majority rules, etc.)
• Students will take turns answering each question by raising their hands.
• Teacher will write answers on overhead as each student correctly answers questions.

Closure of lesson of plan on laws and elections

• Tell the students that during tomorrow's lesson we will have a pretend election in class. We will be voting on someone in the class to become the Principal of the school.
• Review important vocabulary words to make sure students understand enough to be able to participate in the election.