"A right to choose" - democracy
Children Votes Count!
Young children who vote on meaningful issues in a classroom learn to participate in decision making in their society.
Why include voting in your classroom?
Children learn to be responsible for making and abiding by decisions.
Voting can be used for resolving conflicts.
Children begin to understand the idea of the rule of the majority, while learning to consider the rights of the minority. They see that each person's opinion counts.
Voting encourages children to practice verbal skills as they explain their ideas and counting skills as they count votes.
The apple-cake or chips?
The teacher presents components of two meals:
apple-pie and chips.
Time of voting
Children will vote- they will put the button into the hoop. We haven’t got voting paper but two hoop.
Every child receives only one button.
It’s close voting
Resoult
We have a right to vote
Not all children were satisfied from the result voting.
Children tested democratic choices.
Children want to win. They want to have superiority over other people.
They identifies Wit people about similar views.
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