1. DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT?! It’s Up to You!! Click here to begin your Presidential Campaign. Web Quest for 4 th Grade Social Studies Class

2. Your Task You are running for president of the United States of America!! Here is what you need to know in order to run…  First you are going to explore this year’s presidential candidates and their campaigns. After you fully understand what each candidate is representing, then you will move onto the two political parties.  As your assignment, you must choose which party you want to belong to based on what each party stands for.  Next, you will design your own slogan and platform. This is explaining to me why they should be voting for you as president!  Finally, we will be creating individual mini-commercials, just like the ones you have seen for the candidates running this year. NEXT

3. Click here to continue on! Introduction This is the Preamble of the Constitution of the United Sates of America. Do you know that one of the many responsibilities of the President is took protect the people’s rights listed in the Preamble? Do you think you would be able to be the next President of the United States?

4. Click here to find out who the Presidential Candidates are!

5. Democratic Candidate Republic Candidate Barack Obama Mitt Romney Here are the Presidential Candidates for 2012 Click on each picture to learn more about their campaign.

6. 2012 Democratic Platform Cut college fees and tuition in half Train 2 million workers at community colleges Hire 100,000 Math and Science Teachers End overseas war and rebuild the ecomony Create 1 million new manufacturing jobs. Click here to view the 2012 Republican Platform Click here Click here to continue on your journey!!

7. 2012 Republican Platform Creating American jobs, higher wages, and a better standard of living Job Creation: Getting Americans back to work Tax relief to grow economy and create jobs Balancing the budget Rebuilding homeownership Freedom in the workplace Click here to view the 2012 Democratic Platform ClickClick here to continue on your journey!!here

8. Democratic Party Republican Party Step 1: Choose Your Political Party Some Basic Republican Beliefs  Based on individual rights and justices  Increase spending on military funds  Support the death penalty  Believe taxes shouldn’t be increased for anyone (including the wealthy) and wages should be set by the free market Some Basic Democratic Beliefs  Based on community and social responsibility  Decrease spending on military funds  Oppose the death penalty  Believe there should be higher taxes for the wealthier people and favor minimum wage (getting paid for work with the lowest amount of money legally) Click here to view step 2!

9. Step 2: Create Your Own Campaign Slogan 1856- John C. Fremont: Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Speech, Free Men, and Fremont 1984- Ronald Reagan: It’s morning again in America 1984- Walter Mondale: America Needs a Change Here are some examples for to get your creative thoughts flowing! 2000- George W. Bush: Real plans for real people 2008- Barack Obama: Change We Can Believe In 2012-Mitt Romney: Believe in America Click here for Step 3 and Step 4!

10. Have FUN and be CREATIVE! Step 3  Create your own campaign platform  You can use the presidential candidates’ platforms for ideas. Step 4  After everyone has shared their campaign ideas, we will record your slogan and platform in a 30 second- 1 minute video.  This video will be your commercial for election year.  I will guide you through this process. Continue

11. Conclusion o CONGRATULATIONS! You have completed the necessary tasks that are involved with running for presidency. You have experienced what it is like to create your own slogan, platform and you even recorded your own commercial. o Although you have experienced some of the aspects that go into running for president, there are still a lot of things that are required in order to run for president. Teacher’s Section

12. Rubric for Assignments Standards Resources

13. Teacher’s Section o This web quest was designed for a fourth grade social studies class. As a result of this culminating project, students will learn the difference between the two political parties and the differences between the two candidates who are running for president this year. Since it is an election year, students will experience what is like themselves to create a slogan, a campaign platform, and a commercial to attract voters. RubricStandards Resources

14. English Language Arts  Standard 1: Language for Information and Understanding Students will listen, speak, read, and write for information and understanding.  Standard 3: Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation Students will listen, speak, read, and write for critical analysis and evaluation Rubric Standards Social Studies  Standard 1: History of the United States and New York Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.  Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government Resources

15. o http://www.presidentsusa.net/campaignslogans.ht ml http://www.presidentsusa.net/campaignslogans.ht ml o http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Re publican http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Re publican o http://www.barackobama.com/issues/ http://www.barackobama.com/issues/ o http://www.mittromney.com/jobsplan http://www.mittromney.com/jobsplan Rubric Standards