This Teacher Guide identifies the Civics Test questions covered in the theme, Voting. It also provides the instructional steps to familiarize teachers with the elements and navigation of the Preparing for the Oath - Voting student interactive so that they can be comfortable presenting it to their class.

In this activity, the students can do a variety of activities connected with the seal of the Presidency of the United States. This activity is connected with the Smithson Museum.

Students will build background and show understanding about government elections at the local, state, and national levels in the United States.

Students will write, revise, and edit an informational piece to demonstrate mastery of the topic of elections incorporating key academic content vocabulary.

Students will create a PPT with a teacher's model to demonstrate understanding and mastery of key content area vocabulary words.

Students will complete activities during independent work time or literacy stations. Provides a QR code for students to listen to stories (2 non-fiction and 1 fiction) about elections. After they listen to the stories they choose one of the non-fiction texts to write facts about, find the main idea and key details, and define new words

Students read and understand several years of data presented in bar graphs and line graphs. Students will also identify voting trends by race, year, and region.

In this unit, students will collect images, articles, and other things they can use to create a graffiti wall about voting. They create a chart listing about what they know. They will explore the history of voting and voting rights and create a timeline of voting history.

In this lesson, students understand will understand the rights and responsibilities of voting in local, state, and national elections.