Kindergarten and the US Elections

by Langwitches ~ November 6th, 2008. Filed under: Elementary School, History, SmartBoard.

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I just wanted to share a great lesson from our Kindergarten teachers.  In preparation of the Presidential elections in the USA, they used an interactive Electoral College map from Yahoo on the SmartBoard. The map allowed them to pick a map of neutral states, ready to be changed into a Republican or Democratic one.

One click turned the state red, a second click turned the state blue.

Here you see the predictions of one of our Kindergarten class (We live in a very conservative area):

The day after the elections, the class returned to TechConnect to use the SmartBoard to turn the states the color they were voted in the election.

What an amazing lesson the teachers prepared for their 5 year old students!Talk about cross subject integration: Geography, History, Math, Language, Social Studies …

Students especially learned from the interactive bar on the bottom that moved as they added a red or a blue state.

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