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**Welcome to Kids Decision 2008 Project!**

    Fifth grade students study the branches of government and citizenship/voting. Since this is a presidential election year, we are expanding this unit so students can compare, and analyze  political stances.



 *  Students will form news reporting teams.
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(16,34,244)"> Each team will be able to choose a piece of election/government to explore and report on, examples: history of voting, presidential history, functions of government, importance of voting, campaign commercials, local voice (where is your voice heard).
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(16,34,244)"> Students will report findings through a news broadcast using video, podcast,or web page. <span style="COLOR: rgb(16,34,244)">
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(16,34,244)"> Other participating schools from around the United States will share and collaborate their research findings on wikispaces.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(16,34,244)"> Students will conduct straw polls on survey monkey to compare and contrast our community/state with other classrooms. We are hoping to have representation from all regions.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(16,34,244)"> Students will explore current candidates and issues.
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="COLOR: rgb(16,34,244)"> The project culminates with students participating in an online mock election and analysis of voting patterns: class to other student voters, class the city and state and country.<span style="COLOR: rgb(0,128,128)">