2016 Election Process

• Start your Prezi @ https://prezi.com/signup/public/ You will use the summitsuperstars+yourname@gmail.com and the password Student2016 to sign up for a free account.
• The titles of each slide are in blue next to the slide number. Just copy and paste the title into your slide and change the size and font to what you like.
• Use the research links on the task page to learn about the candidates.
• MAKE SURE YOU ACTUALLY READ SO THAT YOU CAN LEARN. You are at the age where it's important to know what's going on in your country.
• Read about the following candidates: Clinton, Sanders, Cruz, Rubio, Trump. Based on your readings, choose a Republican presidential candidate and a Democratic presidential candidate to profile for this presentation.
• REMEMBER...NOTHING IS FREE. Just because a candidate says they'll make something free, that doesn't make it true. Someone somewhere will be paying. Choose based on their views and ideals about where our country needs to be.

Here is what will be on each of your Prezi slides:

Title: Your name/2016 Election (Rebekah Lewis - 2016 Election)

Slide 1: The Candidate-Republican

Pick either Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, or Donald Trump

• Name
• Photo
• Party Affiliation

Slide 2: Views on Major Issues

Pick 3 of these major issues and list the candidate's point of view on each IN COMPLETE SENTENCES:

For example:

National Security: My candidate, Ted Cruz, believes in having a strong US military to keep our country safe.

Gun control: He believes that you should have the right to bear arms to protect yourself and your family.

Immigration: Ted Cruz believes that anyone should be able to become a citizen of the United States as long as they are willing to go through the appropriate legal channels.

• National security
• health care
• Education
• Women's rights
• Immigration
• The economy
• taxes
• climate change
• Gun control
• Other

Slide 3:

1 paragraph (3-5 complete sentences): What is your opinion on your first candidate? Your honest opinion based on the research you did, not what you see and hear on the news and from other people. 

Start with:

   In my opinion, I believe that the Republican candidate, (name of candidate), is "insert your opinion here."

Slide 4: The Candidate-Democrat

Pick either Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton

• Name
• Photo
• Party Affiliation

Slide 5: Views on Major Issues

Pick 3 of these major issues and list the candidate's point of view on each IN COMPLETE SENTENCES:

For example (See slide 2 for example):

• National security
• health care
• Education
• Women's rights
• Immigration
• The economy
• taxes
• climate change
• Gun control
• Other

Slide 6:

1 paragraph (3-5 complete sentences): What is your opinion on your second candidate? Your honest opinion based on the research you did, not what you see and hear on the news and from other people. 

Start with:

   In my opinion, I believe that the Democratic candidate, (name of candidate), is "insert your opinion here."

In the next several slides, you will be copying and pasting screenshots. Please follow the directions CAREFULLY below to do this. 

1. When you are on the page you want to take a screenshot of, hold down the Ctrl button (bottom left) and the Print Screen button (top right) at the same time. Sometimes you want to hold the Ctrl button first and then add the Print Screen button.

2. Open a Microsoft Office document.

3. Right click and paste. 

4. Right click on the picture.

5. Click "save as picture"

6. Put the picture on your desktop folder or your flashdrive.

7. Save it as whatever the screenshot is a picture of so you can find it later.

8. Open your Prezi, go to the correct slide.

9. Click insert --> image (on top)

10. Resize the image to fit your slide.

Slide 7: If you were President

Go to the link, do the activity, and screenshot the newspaper for this slide.

http://www.scholastic.com/kids/president/

Slide 8: President for a Day

Go to the link, do the activity, and screenshot the newspaper for this slide.

http://pbskids.org/democracy/be-president/

Slide 9: Make an Election ad

READ THE DIRECTIONS FIRST

1. Go to http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/admaker/

2. Watch the other ads to get an idea of what you are doing.

3. You are creating an ad for students to learn how important elections.

4. Drag videos or audio and pictures to the timeline to create your own ad.

5. Add effects and transitions

6. Add a title (Your name)

7. Click "save ad"

8. Register using your email or summitsuperstars+yourname@gmail.com, password Student1

9. Save ad.

10. Open ad by clicking on the MyLRC section.

11. Copy the link in the address bar.

12. Paste link in this slide.

If this link doesn't work, do this quiz instead of screenshot the results. You must have all the answers correct. If you do not, research the answers by clicking on this link --> U.S. Elections and retake the quiz. 

http://www.factmonster.com/quizzes/election-voting/1.html

Slide 10: I Side With

• Take the https://www.isidewith.com/ quiz
• Actually READ and decide the answers to the questions based on how you want the country to be when you graduate high school and become an adult.
• Print screen the results onto this slide

If the above link doesn't work, try one of the following links instead and follow the same directions as above:

http://2016election.procon.org/2016-election-quiz.php

http://www.ontheissues.org/Quiz/Quiz2016.asp?quiz=Pres2016

Slide 11: What I have Learned

Write a paragraph (3-5 complete sentences) describing what you've learned throughout this project.