Current (and past) elections

TT
by to-teach Team
4 pagesGrades 8-10English, Politics
Template

Loading preview…

Your worksheet

Select an upcoming election.

Need an idea?

Popular topics from other teachers

How our AI templates work

  • Content gets adapted

    Examples, texts and tasks match your focus.

  • Method & structure stay

    The didactically reviewed structure of the template won't change.

Description

Objective

This worksheet aims to inform students about the mechanics, candidates, and critical political contexts surrounding a specific election. It encourages students to understand how the electoral process works and introduces the key issues and figures shaping contemporary American politics.

Content and methods

The worksheet integrates informational texts, graphical assets, and interactive text-based exercises. It features comprehensive introductory profiles for the major candidates. To evaluate student comprehension and reinforce learning, the material utilizes a series of multiple-choice questions focusing on campaign milestones, alongside a cloze (fill-in-the-blank) paragraph designed to test knowledge of the Electoral College system.

Competencies

  • Reading comprehension and factual analysis: Identifying and recalling core political developments, historical milestones, and key policy agendas from structured informational texts
  • Civic literacy and institutional understanding: Comprehending the function, vote requirements, and structure of the United States Electoral College system
  • Information processing and matching: Extracting quantitative and qualitative data from text blocks to correctly complete context-dependent cloze exercises


Target group

Grades 8–10

Similar worksheets

📖 Reading Time: Grade 2 with Coloring Page

📖 Reading Time: Grade 2 with Coloring Page

The primary learning objective is advancing early English reading instruction, enhancing word- and sentence-level decoding fluency, expanding thematic vocabulary, and supporting multisensory cognitive consolidation through integrated visual-motor tasks.

Contents and Methods: The worksheet combines short, structured declarative sentences with an integrated word search puzzle and a concluding thematic coloring activity. Methodologically, learners first read clear descriptive sentences featuring foundational vocabulary, action verbs, and basic syntactic patterns. They then visually scan for and identify key target words within a letter grid matrix, reinforcing word recognition and orthographic memory. Finally, a detailed coloring page engages fine motor skills and serves as a motivating, multisensory capstone to consolidate lexical associations.

Competencies:

  • Reading & Decoding Skills (English): reliable decoding, fluent reading of short connected sentences, and structural understanding of simple English statements
  • Vocabulary & Language Competence: visual recognition, retention, and semantic grounding of high-frequency words, and descriptive action verbs
  • Visual Perception & Concentration: systematic scanning, visual discrimination, and focused attention through the word search puzzle
  • Fine Motor & Multisensory Learning: hand-eye coordination, creative focus, and multisensory reinforcement through thematic coloring

Target Group: Grade 2 and above

English
📖 Reading Time: Grade 1 with Coloring Page

📖 Reading Time: Grade 1 with Coloring Page

The primary learning objective is foundational early reading instruction in English, strengthening decoding skills at word and simple sentence levels, expanding basic thematic vocabulary, and supporting learner motivation and fine motor development through an integrated creative coloring activity for beginner readers.

Contents and Methods: The worksheet combines short, clearly structured declarative sentences in English centered around an engaging theme with a subsequent thematic coloring exercise. Methodologically, early learners read accessible, single-clause sentences featuring high-frequency sight words, and foundational action verbs. Following the reading phase, learners visually and creatively anchor their learning experience by coloring a detailed illustration corresponding to the topic, which reinforces concentration, haptic-visual coordination, and positive emotional engagement with the foreign language.

Competencies:

  • Reading & Decoding Skills (English): reliable decoding, word recognition of high-frequency vocabulary, and basic comprehension of simple English sentence structures
  • Vocabulary & Language Competence: acquisition and recognition of foundational thematic vocabulary (nouns, verbs, descriptive adjectives) in meaningful sentence contexts
  • Fine Motor Skills & Visual Perception: development of graphomotor control, hand-eye coordination, and sustained visual focus through mindful coloring
  • Motivation & Affective Learning: playful, low-anxiety access to foreign language learning through the combination of text and artistic expression

Target Group: Grade 1 and above

English
Understanding Influencer Marketing

Understanding Influencer Marketing

This worksheet aims to raise students’ awareness of the mechanisms, economic dimensions, and psychological strategies of modern digital marketing in everyday life.

Content and Methods: The material focuses on the economic significance of social media marketing based on statistical data, as well as the analysis of specific digital posts. Methodologically, the worksheet relies on a combination of practical case studies—in which an exemplary social media post is deconstructed both textually and statistically—and theoretical insights into behavioral economic effects. In addition, the material encourages multi-perspective discussion through reflective writing assignments and the comparison of contrasting stakeholder perspectives. Finally, the discussion of complex issues is used to synthesize what has been learned into the formation of independent judgments.

Competencies:

Analytical and Deconstructive Competence: The ability to systematically examine media content and linguistic and statistical devices for their manipulative or promotional effects

Reflective and Critical Thinking Competence: The ability to critically examine one’s own consumer behavior and evaluate economic phenomena from different perspectives

Media and Economic Competence: Understanding of digital market mechanisms, psychological influence strategies such as the authority bias or the bandwagon effect, and their impact on the economy

Target Audience and Level: 9th/10th grade

EconomicsPolitics
Projekt Gutenberg - Exploring Shakespeare: Language, Culture and Performance

Projekt Gutenberg - Exploring Shakespeare: Language, Culture and Performance

The aim is to systematically explore Shakespeare’s dramatic texts. Learners will be enabled to objectively deconstruct language, structure and cultural contexts, and to critically reflect on the tension between the historical text and modern performance.

Content and Methods: The worksheet guides students through an analytical process ranging from grasping the content to envisioning a practical stage performance.

Methods:

  • Structural classification: Locating scenes within the classical dramatic structure (e.g., exposition, peripeteia).
  • Analysis of language and form: Examining blank verse vs. prose, imagery, and rhetorical devices (e.g., stichomythia).
  • Thematic exploration: Linking scenes to universal motifs (power, fate, guilt).

Transfer: A choice between a performance critique (directorial concept/stage design) or a critical discussion on human archetypes. The primary texts for this exercise are sourced from Project Gutenberg.

Competencies:

  • Literary analysis skills: Confident handling of genre-specific characteristics and technical terms used in drama analysis.
  • Methodological skills: Application of categories from literary and theatre studies to decode the text.
  • Transfer and creative skills: Projecting historical material onto modern staging concepts and contemporary social issues.
  • Language awareness: Developing sensitivity to the impact of meter and figurative language.

Target Audience and Level: Advanced English course

English