{"id":3938,"date":"2018-10-15T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T18:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2019-04-24T14:28:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:28:03","slug":"5th-grade-henrico-election-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3938","title":{"rendered":"5th Grade Henrico Election Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?attachment_id=3942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3942\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/poster-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/poster-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/poster.png 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fifth graders at Trevvett Elementary have been learning about Henrico county government (HC.2) in Social Studies, and they&#8217;ve been identifying the main idea and summarizing nonfiction text in Language Arts (SOL5.6d,e). Since elections are coming up in November, students in Ms. Harris&#8217;s class and Ms. Brown&#8217;s class conducted research to find information about the candidates running for office in Henrico County. Then we summarized our findings to create campaign posters.  First, we used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elections.virginia.gov\/casting-a-ballot\/candidate-list\/2018NovemberList.html\">this site<\/a> to see the list of candidates.  Each student chose a candidate they weren&#8217;t familiar with since many of them already had a family favorite, and I wanted them to be exposed to different viewpoints. Next, they did a Google search for their candidate and explored their campaign website. I showed them where to look to find the &#8220;Beliefs&#8221; or &#8220;Issues&#8221; sections. After the students read some of their viewspoints, we discussed ways to summarize their views into a couple of sentences for the campaign poster. Students could use Google Docs, Google Slides, or Google Drawings (as well as other tools like <a href=\"http:\/\/designcap.com\">DesignCap<\/a>) to make posters, but we chose to use Google Drawings since we hadn&#8217;t used that tool yet. For the poster&#8217;s background, we added a square shape, made it as large as the poster, and changed the fill color so it was a solid color or gradient.  Then we clicked &#8220;Insert > Word Art&#8221; and typed the candidate&#8217;s name. I showed them how to change the font, fill, and outline color of the text.  We imported a photo of the candidate using the Google image search feature. Finally, we added a speech bubble with the Shapes button and typed a summary of the candidate&#8217;s beliefs.  We shared our campaign posters on Schoology, but you can see them all <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vSymOdG5sfV-184NSN_EV4RcJw3p6FVc0Y1eM38YJvjhUc04PJU_rGBaUtW0I95-tnn4Q8Y6wtlmyk7\/pub\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth graders at Trevvett Elementary have been learning about Henrico county government (HC.2) in Social Studies, and they&#8217;ve been identifying the main idea and summarizing nonfiction text in Language Arts (SOL5.6d,e). Since elections are coming up in November, students in Ms. Harris&#8217;s class and Ms. Brown&#8217;s class conducted research to find information about the candidates&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/?p=3938\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,13],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5th","category-languagearts","category-socialstudies","tag-googledocs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etechplace.org\/clough\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}