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Third Grade Historical Figures Presidential Race

Third Grade Students at Chattahoochee Elementary and Coal Mountain Elementary School learned about the Historical Figures from the 3rd grade standards in an interesting and engaging way this year!

Students were divided into Campaign Committees for the following “Presidential Candidates”: Cesar Chavez, Paul Revere, Mary McCloud Bethune, FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, Thurgood Marshall, and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Once divided into Campaign Committees, students signed campaign contracts, were given budget guidelines, researched the branches of government, and researched their assigned candidates.

At that point, students were charged with analyzing their candidates, their personal and professional qualities and their accomplishments to determine the best course of action to fulfill their job of getting their candidate elected. Students created slogans, speeches, campaign items, commercials, posters, and other propaganda to promote their candidates. After a week of school wide campaigning, students presented their speeches to the school via the school newcasts. After some serious persuasive speeches, students in 3rd Grade were given the chance to vote on the best suited candidate to fill the position of President of the United States of America.

Once the Presidents for each school were chosen, students from both schools skyped together to solve riddles about the candidates and test each other’s knowledge about the candidates, as well as share their reflections about the experience.

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