1. ETE 335 Elementary Social Studies Lesson Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

2. ETE 335 Elementary Social Studies Lesson Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Stephanie Valko Social Studies/Civics 3 rd Class Election

3. ETE 335 Elementary Social Studies Lesson Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Goals: The students will be able to evaluate the importance of different rights between people, the state and nation through the class election. The students will be able to explain how individuals influence public policy when writing a bill. Objectives: Content/Knowledge: The students will be able to understand how elections work within the U.S. Process/Skills: The students will be able to organize and count votes for each position. Values/Dispositions: The students will be able to understand what civics means to them through a small class election.

4. ETE 335 Elementary Social Studies Lesson Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Rationale: It is important for students to learn about voting and running for office so they can have a better understanding on how it works and what their role is in it. Standards: State – Illinois Common Core or Learning Standards 14.C.2- Describe and evaluate why rights and responsibilities are important to the individual, family, community, work place, state and nation (e.g., voting, protection under the law. 14.D.2- Explain ways that individuals and groups influence and shape public policy. National – NCSS Themes Assist learners in developing an understanding for civic life, politics, and government, so that the learners can explore the origins of governmental authority, recognize the need for government; identify the crucial functions of government, including laws and rules; evaluate rules and laws; differentiate between limited and unlimited government; and appreciate the importance of limitations on government power.

5. Logical/Mathematical

6. Logical/Mathematical The learning activity for this would be counting all the votes in the class election and graphing each position separately with the people running for that position on a bar graph to display the data. Resources needed would be information on how real votes are counted in election polls. The materials for this activity would be the bar graph paper, colored pencils, election ballot and pencils or pens for voting. http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepol iticalsystem/a/votecounts.htm

7. Verbal/Linguistic

8. Verbal/Linguistic This learning activity would have the children wanting to run for a position in the class to give a short 2 minute speech on why they want to do that job, how they are the best for it and why they should be picked. The materials needed for this activity would be a pencil, paper, note cards for short speech. http://www.ehow.com/how_5140632_ write-speech-kids.html

9. Musical/Rhythmic

10. Musical/Rhythmic This learning activity would have the students running for a position for class office to come up with a short song or jingle about the position they are running for. Resources needed for this activity would be job descriptions and responsibilities for each position. The materials needed for this activity would be pencil and paper to write the song/jingle on. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ruth- gerson/how-to-write-a-song-for- w_b_893649.html

11. Visual/Spatial

12. Visual/Spatial This learning activity would have the students making campaign posters to display around the classroom. The materials for this activity would be markers, crayons, colored pencils, and construction paper. http://www.ehow.com/how_524 6729_make-campaign-poster- kids.html

13. Body/Kinesthetic

14. Body/Kinesthetic For this activity I would have the students getting up out of their seats to cast their votes for class elections in a mock voting booth. Resources that could be used for this lesson would be history of voting. Materials that would be needed for this lesson would be ballots, a voting booth and pens. http://www.icivics.org/teache rs/lesson-plans/mock- election

15. Interpersonal

16. Interpersonal This activity would have the students watching different speeches and debates from a presidential election and the writing about how well the candidate gets along with others or where they might need improvement. The materials needed for this activity would be paper, pencils, computer and different clips of presidential speeches and debates. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te cohezcA78

17. Intrapersonal

18. Intrapersonal For this activity I would have the students write about what it means to them to be part of a democratic government. Materials for this activity would be computers for research and a paper and pencil. http://www.parli.com/new sletter/basic-principles- of-democratic- government

19. Naturalistic

20. Naturalistic The activity that would be done for this lesson would be to have the students come up with some new laws about nature and how to protect it. Then have the whole class vote on it. Resources for this activity would be already made laws for nature in the area. Materials for this lesson would be computers for research and paper and pencil for writing the bill. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/il cs2.asp?ChapterID=44

21. ETE 335 Elementary Social Studies Lesson Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Visual Learning and Assessment: Visual Learning, Assessment, and Online Resources: Visual Learning: NOTE: Be sure to include one image that is germane to the focus of your lesson on each of the 8 lesson activity PowerPoint slides. Assessment: 1. I will assess how well my students did by having them write about their experiences of holding a class election and if they would do one again. Online Resources: 1. https://delicious.com/svalko/Civics