Week 11

A Final lesson idea

I would like to teach a lesson about American Government subject for grades 11-12th about Electoral College as a topic for the lesson.

  The presidential election is a current trend. Perhaps we are living the most important presidential election of modern times, therefore it will be a historical moment that would indisputably affect the immediate future of the nation.
I chose as a topic the Electoral College to give a broader and understandable aspect of how it works, in addition to other important details that we must take into account.

The American Government subject studies the origin and development of the U.S. Constitution, structure and powers of the national government including the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, federalism, political participation, the national election process, public policy, civil liberties, and civil rights.

Americans elect the President and Vice President through a method of indirect popular election. On the first Tuesday in November, voters cast their ballots for a presidential candidate. These votes actually count towards a group of electors who pledge to vote for a specific candidate in the Electoral College. The "Electoral College" is the group of citizens selected by the people to cast votes for President and Vice President.

The presidential/vice presidential pair who wins the popular vote in any given state receives all of the state's Electoral College votes (with two exceptions). In the end, the winner of the race is the candidate who receives a majority (270 or more) of the 538 Electoral College votes. The results of the election aren't official until the President of the Senate counts the votes out loud at a special joint session of Congress held in early January .

I am going to use two Web 2.0 tools for this lesson, Prezi and Edmodo.

Jorge Villarreal.