Political Parties

Activity Overview

Once students are familiar with the basics of each political party, it can be helpful for them to do a deeper dive into one specific party. In a spider map, students will outline more specific core values for a particular political party. Teachers can assign these to students or have students pick.

During an election year, students should be encouraged to complete this project while researching the party's candidate and their specific stances. For slightly more advanced students, or an additional challenge, students might look up policies and laws that their assigned party has supported and see how it aligns with the party's core beliefs.

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Objective: Create a spider map that outlines different core beliefs of a political party.

Student Instructions:

Click "Start Assignment".
In the title boxes, identify the core belief.
In the descriptions, provide an explanation for what that belief means.
Create an illustration for each description using appropriate scenes, items, and characters.

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Lesson Plan Reference

Grade Level 4-5

Difficulty Level 3 (Developing to Mastery)

Type of Assignment Individual or Partner

Type of Activity: Spider Maps

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Rubric

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Political Parties in the United States

After learning about the major and minor political parties in the United States, students will be able to identify the parties and explain 3-4 core values for each party.

	Proficient 10 Points	Emerging 6 Points	Beginning 1 Points
Political Parties in the United States	Student can identify the two major parties in the United States as well as two minor parties.	Student can identify the two major parties in the United States.	Students can identify one political party in the United States.
Core Values of each Political Party	Student can explain 3-4 core values for each political party identified.	Student can explain 2 core values for each political party identified.	Student can explain 0-1 core value for each political party identified.