President Lesson Plan: Power, Authority, and Governance

Grade Levels: K-3

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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic President, and supports the standard of identifying the representative leader of a national government. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.

Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Ask students:

  • What is the president’s job?

Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE

  • Play the President movie.  
  • Click the pause button each time a question appears in Annie’s Notebook and discuss it as a class. Then play to see how Annie answers it. 

TIP: The pause button turns red to remind you to pause. 

Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS

Students take the Easy Quiz or Hard Quiz, demonstrating what they learned about the topic while applying essential literacy skills.

Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND

Students express what they learned about presidents while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student or grade-level needs.

  • Draw About It: Draw your favorite president. 
  • Activity: Write an acrostic poem about presidents.
  • Talk About It: Identify some of the president’s responsibilities. 
  • Write About It: Write a letter to the president about how the country could be improved. 

More to Explore 

Government Unit: Continue to build understanding around power, authority, and government by exploring more BrainPOP Jr. topics.

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Lesson Plan Common Core State Standards Alignments

Filed as:  BrainPOP Jr., CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.1, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.2, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.1