Media Alignment

by: Anthony Forfia

Standard: Ohio Content Standards: Grade 11: Systems of Government:

Benchmark C: Analyze how citizens participate in the election process in the United States.

Describe the ways in which public officials are held accountable for the public good including ways they can acquire and lose their offices with emphasis on:

a. Appointments;

b. Primary and general elections;

c. The Electoral College;

d. Recall;

e. Impeachment.

Media Possibilities:

# / Name / Type
1 / Election 2004: Campaigns and the Media

Designed by Marie Livingston / Webquest/Tutorial
2 / How the Electoral College Works
/ Webquest/Tutorial
3 / Does your vote count? A Webquest on the Electoral College System
/ Webquest/Tutorial
4 / Notebook software 10 (SmartBoard): Electoral College Software
The Notebook software includes and interactive electoral college may where students can calculate electoral college votes by touching the state on the smartboard screen / Computer Software
5 / Self created windows movie: Anthony Forfia completed for Computer Applications
/ Image Only Tutorial/Movie
6 / Schoolhouse Rock: Electoral College Video
/ Video

Selected Materials: 3,4,5,6

Selected Materials / Rationale / Usage / Student Interaction
#3 / This media was chosen because of its completeness and usefulness. The websites used are current and have relevant information / Students will process through this web tutorial individually or in small groups. Students will all be seated at a desktop computer in a small classroom or within a computer lab / Students will interact with other students to discuss the information which is presented. They should spend an adequate amount of time looking through the various websites.
#4 / The notebook 10 software was chosen due to its extremely interactive nature. The electoral college map will be primarily used / Students will use the whiteboard to construct the 2008 Electoral College map. They will touch the screen to make the states either blue or red to illustrate which candidate won each state / Students will create the 2008 Electoral college map so that the SmartBoard Electoral College map will automatically update the vote totals.
#5 / This was a self created image tutorial which I created for the Computer Applications course. I chose this because of it’s a different way to present a lesson without the traditional teacher introduction. / This video will be watched as an introduction to the Electoral College system. Hopefully students will understand the play on words that is used in the video. / Students will watch the video on the whiteboard screen. Teacher will ask a few questions as video progresses to gauge if students are paying attention and understanding the information presented.
#6 / This is a Schoolhouse rock video which discusses the Electoral College through a catchy song. The rationale for this is that students tend to learn through music presentations. / Students will watch and listen to the Electoral College song after the above listed video. / Students will watch and listen to the Schoolhouse Rock. They will also potentially write their own rap, song, or jingle to represent the electoral college.

Supporting Statements:

The role of instruction is to provide students with ways to assemble knowledge, not to dispense facts (Smaldino, p. 11)

Establishing Commonality. By viewing video programs together, a disparate group of people can build up a common base of experience to discuss and issue effectively (Smaldino, p. 316).

The electronic whiteboard is especially valuable for brainstorming sessions and for summarizing group discussions (Smaldino p. 226).