So You Want to Run a Presidential Campaign...

A Web Quest for 3rd Grade Social Studies

Designed by

Katie Hickey Snyder

Evaluation

POLITICAL RALLY DAY!
LEAD TEAM MEMBER - Candidate

Throughout the project you have been graded by your teacher using rubrics for individual assignments, and by your peers for your ability to work on a team.

Now comes the big day!

Invite your families, friends and other interested folks to your Political Rally!

Use posters and bumper stickers as backdrops.

During rally the candidate will deliver the speech, followed by all team members acting out the television commercial. Team members will then answer questions from audience. Team members will answer questions based on position of political party.

Audience members will rotate through your presentations using the following rubric to grade you on the last available 70 electoral college votes.

Rubric available at http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php.
Rubric #1598100

After the Political Rally day, your teacher will average the rubrics of the audience members to give you a final tally--

The candidate with the most electoral college votes WINS THE ELECTION. Although we know winning is fun and in a real election the winner takes all, we hope that through this webquest/project you have learned more about the political parties in the United States, how a political campaign is run and what it means to be a great team member. Who knows--maybe someday you will get the chance to work on a real political campaign...you might even grow up to be a candidate for political office. You never know, perhaps YOU could grow up to the the President of the United States!