Educational Foundations Academy
Integration Matrix 2002-2003

Integration Topic: Elections
Curriculum Support: Educational Foundation Academy
Activities: Integration Across The Curriculum

Discipline
Lesson Plans

Lesson
Content

Content Standards
(State & National)

Cross Curricular
Standards (SCANS)

Berry, John
Social Studies

Students will participate in a unit on the election process.  This will include discussions on types of elections, the effects of propaganda on the elections, forms of nominations, and the electoral college process.

Student will understand the responsibilities, rights, and privileges of a United States citizen.

Information Systems

Crossen, Sharon
English

Identifying propaganda techniques in negative campaign advertising and commercials

English Language Arts Standard Three
Students will access, organize, and evaluate information gained by listening, reading, and viewing.

Information: Acquires and uses information A. Acquires and uses information B. Organizes and maintains information C. Interprets and communicates information  

Duphily, Dionne
Special Ed

Elections: Students will read persuasive speeches of the early 1900’s and explore the struggle for women’s right to vote. Students will write persuasive essays conveying their views on the right to vote.  

English Language Arts State Standards 1, 2, 4

Information

Fry, Donald
Study Skills

Students will participate in a unit on the election process.  This will include discussions on types of elections, the effects of propaganda.

Student will understand the effects of negative communication.

Resources
Information

Fry, Rita
Math

Statistical Graphing

Communicate    Mathematically

Resources

Gleason, Joe
Math

Students will be integrating the data from the school-wide elections into integrated classroom lesson plans.

Communicate Mathematically

Resources

Griffin, Kathy
Science

Students will gather data from the election results of November 2002.  They will use the “Chart Wizard” from Microsoft Excel to create various graphs of selected data.  They will choose appropriate graph types for the data which they select

MATHEMATICS: 2.  Communicate mathematically, 4.  Mathematical connections, 10.  Patterns, relationships & functions.
SCIENCE
1.  Science & technology
SOCIAL STUDIES
HISTORY
2. Analyze historical data
CIVICS
4.  Civics skills for participatory citizenship.
MARKETING
3.  Utilize computer technology to analyze and present information.

1.  RESOURCES
2.  INTERPERSONAL
3.  INFORMATION 
4.  SYSTEMS                       
5.  TECHNOLOGY

Hurd, Deb
Math

Statistics analysis and statistical plots

Communicate Mathematically

Resources
Information

Kellam, Aaron
English

Identifying propaganda techniques in negative campaign advertising and commercials

English Language Arts Standard Three Students will access, organize, and evaluate information gained by listening, reading, and viewing

Information: Acquires and uses information  A. Acquires and uses information  B. Organizes and maintains information  C. Interprets and communicates information  

Layton, Lisa
Science

Statistical analysis and graphing

Students will access, organize, and evaluate information gained by listening, reading, and viewing.

Information: Acquires and uses information  A. Acquires and uses information  B. Organizes and maintains information  C. Interprets and communicates information  

Lettieri, Dan
JROTC

Election Day
Leadership Qualities

Written Communication,
Interpretation, Analysis,
Extended Learning

Information: A, B, C, D
Interpersonal: A

O'Connor, John Science

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Richardson, L.
Human Relations

I did not participate.

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Sampere, Mike
Social Studies

Students will participate in a unit on the election process.  This will include discussions on types of elections, the effects of propaganda on the elections, forms of nominations, and the electoral college process.

Student will understand the responsibilities, rights, and privileges of a United States citizen.

Information

Systems

Sharp, Rebecca
Reading

Election Vocabulary

English Language Arts
Standard 2

Information

Swayze, Lee
Special Ed

Students will analyze the results of school and national elections by taking the results and converting them to fractions, decimals, percents, and ratios. In addition, students will graph the information using bar graphs, histograms, and pie charts and interpret in writing the results.  

Math S. Standards 1 & 5

Information

Young, Jay
Special Ed

English Language Arts

English Language Arts Standard 2

Information