Ages 10-14 | Study of U.S. elections for international classrooms

Connect U.S. civics with percentage reasoning and critical graph reading. Pupils examine midterm elections, run a fictional classroom vote and explain what numerical claims do and do not establish.

What’s included

• 21 pages per PDF edition, in colour and black-and-white, each in A4 and US Letter. These are four versions of the same teaching content.
• 14 editable PowerPoint slides with teacher notes, native editable graph objects and a ballot template.
• Congress information sheet and claim checks, anonymous classroom voting rules, vote share, plurality and majority, turnout and denominators, paired graphs and a partial-count investigation.
• Separate homework, exit check, worked answers, teacher guidance, source page and adaptable question text.
• An optional dated 2026 context page. Remove this page for later reuse.

HOW DID WE DO?

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