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Article 3: Government Leaders Word Count: 20 Vocabulary: N/A High Impact Teaching Strategies: Structuring Lessons, Explicit Teaching, Multiple Exposures Lesson Plan: 1. Review what a government is. (a group of people who lead a community) 2. Have the students open their notebooks to their graphic organizer Levels of Our Government. Review the levels of government they learned about in the “Government” lesson. 3. Review what was learned in the previous lesson about voting. Ask: a. What does it mean to vote? (Answers may vary. Possible answers include: Voting is a fair way to make a group choice.) b. When have we voted in our class? (Answers may vary.) c. What are some other ways that groups can make decisions? (discussions, class meetings, etc.) 4. Watch the video “What Is a Leader and What Do They Do? - K.” a. After the video, discuss what a leader is and what a good leader does. b. Invite students to share some ways they can be good leaders and help others. 5. Read the article together as the students follow along. a. Write the word “leader” on the board. Explain that leaders are people who are in charge. They guide a group working on a goal. Leaders help others and show people how things can be done. b. Discuss that we have leaders who are in charge of the government. They lead our city and town. They lead our state. They lead the country. c. Explain how government leaders are authority figures. Government leaders make and enforce laws in the community. d. Discuss that people in the community vote to choose government leaders. That makes it so everyone can make a choice. Voting is a fair way to choose government leaders. 6. Give each student a copy of the graphic organizer Government Leaders. a. Model the activity for the students, and guide them as they complete the activity. i. While completing the activity, show the following: 1. Mayor: Show a map of your town and a picture of your mayor. 2. Governor: Show a map of your state and a picture of the governor of your state. 3. President of the United States: Show a map of the country and a picture of the current president of the United States. ii. As you discuss each leader, explain which level of government they lead. Have the students name the government leaders.
Government | Week 5
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