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Election and voters' responsibilities

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Term: 3rd Term

Week: 5

Class: Junior Secondary School 2

Age: 13 years

Duration: 40 minutes of 2 periods each

Date:

Subject:      Civic education

Topic:-       Election and voters responsibilities

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to

  1. Define election
  2. List and explain the types of elections

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES: Identification, explanation, questions and answers, demonstration, videos from source

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: Videos, loud speaker, textbook, pictures

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES

PERIOD 1-2

PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY

STUDENT’S ACTIVITY

STEP 1

INTRODUCTION

The teacher revises the previous lesson on democracy

Students pay attention

STEP 2

EXPLANATION

She defines election

Students pay attention and participates

STEP 3

DEMONSTRATION

She lists and explains the types of election

Students pay attention and participate

STEP 4

NOTE TAKING

The teacher writes a summarized note on the board

The students copy the note in their books

 

NOTE

ELECTION AND VOTERS RESPONSIBILITIES

Election is simply defined as the process by which people are voted into power. It is the way of voting people to occupy political offices in order to serve the community or society for a particular period of time.

Election is the process by which people select or elect a candidate into an official position. It is usually carried out in a democratic system of government. Election is done through voting. Elections are conducted at definite intervals as spelt out in the constitution of the nation.

Voting is a method for a group, such as, a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion, usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns. Residents of a place represented by an elected official are called “constituents”, and those constituents who cast a ballot for their chosen candidate are called “voters”.

 

Types of Election

  1. Primary Election: Within a party, those to contest for a particular post like president, senators/ house of reps, governors, chairman etc are nominated within themselves. Primary election is the election that is held within the political party to choose the party representatives at the ward, constituencies, state or national level.
  2. General Election: These types of elections are held at the same time all over the country. In the general election all the candidates that are presented by the parties for each post now come out to contest in the general election, in this election everybody stay within their area in the country to cast their vote.
  3. Bye election: This is the type of election held to choose a candidate for a vacant post as a result of death or resignation of the former representatives. It is usually carried out in the ward or state where such happens.
  4. Run-off election: This is the kind of election that is carried out when there is no candidate that wins the election as directed by the law. It takes place after no candidate earned a majority in an election.
  5. Electoral College: This is an indirect system of election; it is the election in which the generality of the people vote to elect people who would in turn vote several times to elect the needed representatives

EVALUATION:    1. Define elections

  1. List and explain four types of elections

CLASSWORK: As in evaluation

CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the students positively