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eLECTIONS State Standards - Kentucky


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KENTUCKY ACADEMIC EXPECTATIONS ALL

KENTUCKY ACADEMIC EXPECTATIONS: GOVERNMENT


Academic Expectation 2.15

Students can accurately describe various forms of government and analyze issues that relate to the rights and responsibilities of citizens in a democracy.

Middle School Demonstrators
  • Compare democratic and non- democratic political systems (e.g., American constitutional government, parliamentary government, dictatorship, monarchy).
  • Compare sources of authority and power.
  • Analyze factors that account for continuity and change in political systems.
  • Demonstrate civic participation skills.
High School Demonstrators
  • Analyze the relationship between authority and power in political systems.
  • Analyze the impact of ethical beliefs on political systems.
  • Evaluate various processes for political change.
  • Participate actively in a variety of civic and political activities.
Applications Across the Curriculum

Language Arts
  • Interview community leaders to identify common attributes of leadership. Compare these leadership attributes to school leaders. OE
Mathematics
  • Analyze the frequency of females elected to office in world politics over the last decade. Predict trends in future elections based on your data. PE, OE, P
Science
  • Investigate examples of scientific research developed to benefit people but which were taken over by a political system for its own purposes. Examine how scientists felt and reacted to the government's actions. Suggest ways in which the scientific community could have avoided this. PE, P
Arts and Humanities
  • Create an artistic representation of how leadership can involve non-violent (e.g., passive resistance, hunger strikes) behavior. PE, P
Practical Living
  • Examine leadership attributes of personalities in the news. Determine how these attributes could be utilized by leaders in a variety of political systems. PE, P
Vocational Education
  • Design a flowchart showing the hierarchy of leadership in a workplace. Examine how the workplace resembles a political system. Determine which type of political system it most resembles. PE
Applications Across the Curriculum - Variations on a theme: Political Authority

Language Arts
  • Write a short story about your community if it were to suddenly change its political system (e.g., monarchy, dictatorship, communism). Show how your life would be different. OE, P
Science
  • Design a presentation which shows how scientific research is used by various political systems. PE, P
Mathematics
  • Conduct a demographic study of the world to show populations living under authoritarian and democratic societies. Draw conclusions, explain the evidence, and make predictions about the future of democracy in the world. OE, P
Arts and Humanities
  • Compare art and music from Nazi Germany to the United States during the Great Depression. Explain differences and similarities. OE
Practical Living
  • Investigate how people living in various political systems might deal with controversial issues found in everyday life (e.g., censorship, education reform, homelessness). OE, P
Vocational Education
  • Illustrate ways in which a political system influences the creation of job opportunities. PE, P