Scholastic
Nonfiction
This is an informational book filled with knowledge about the president. It reviews such things like; how voting works, the jobs of the President, eligibility for becoming president, political parties, campaigns, election day and the electoral college. This book has a couple parts that I thought were very useful and neat. For example, there is a glossary of political terms that can help students to more clearly understand the reading. It also has a section with election websites that children can use to further their knowledge on how the President is chosen. The last part of the book was actually my favorite, because there was an interesting and useful section. It was a chart with each campaign year and who ran and won that year along with their parties and the number of popular and electoral votes they received.
This can be used in the classroom in multiple ways. One way would be to encourage your students to run for different classroom positions including things like president, vice president, mayor, etc. This would give them an opportunity to have their own campaigns and to allow them to more clearly understand what a campaign is like. This will also provide a chance for them to vote, similar to how we vote for the President. You could also use the websites in this book to have your students do further research on the election and then have them present their new discoveries to the class. Using technology you could have your students use the information they learned from the book and research they have done about the election to create a Wordle (www.wordle.net) similar to this one:
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