Pair the Presidential Election with reading comprehension? An Escape Room? Yes, please!

This year's Presidential election has generated more than enough heated exchanges in the media!  I hope you discuss the election with your students but with a more neutral view.  Your students should not know who you're voting for.  But, wherever you stand, students in upper elementary and middle school need to hear about why we believe in democracy, and how very much electing our future President and Vice-President plays a part in it.

You want your students to learn about the election.  So why not make learning about it a teachable moment with a reading passage that informs and gets at comprehension skills.  Plus, then you add an Escape Room challenge and your students are reading and rereading!  Because who doesn't want to get out of the Escape Room first?

This low-prep resource does just that.  And the beautiful part?  It requires no special equipment, boxes, or locks. Just print it and you're good to go! Provides a standards-based, high-interest way to strengthen your upper elementary students' reading skills!

           

Everything you need is included in this resource.  Just read the teacher's directions, make copies, and get your students to learn about democracy!

On a related note, please make sure you're registered to vote.  I have volunteered at my local polling site for some years now and it is disheartening when only 27% of registered voters show up at the polls. Your vote is every bit as important as the next person's, and if you have opinions, you need to make them known!