Voting Rights Amendments Digital Activity for Google Slides | Civics & History

In this Voting Rights Amendments Digital Activity for Google Slides, students demonstrate their knowledge about the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments to the United States Constitution through three creative activities. Students can design protest posters, write tweets from a supporter of the 15th, 19th, or 26th Amendments, and write a speech to be read at a rally for Voting Rights. Perfect for middle and high school students in Civics, American Government, and American History classrooms, this resource for Google Slides works great as a distance learning activity!

Aligned to the Florida State Standard for 7th Grade Civics: SS.7.CG.3.6: “Analyze how the 13th, 14th, 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th Amendments broadened participation in the political process.”

This Voting Rights Amendments Lesson for Google Slides activity comes with:

✯ Student instructions (You can edit these if you want to assign only certain slides, make it into a choice activity, etc.)

✯ Rally For Your Rights protest posters. Students create signs supporting the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Constitutional Amendments.

• The numbers here are editable as well, for if you would like to assign different Amendments or have students select which Amendments they want to create a poster for!

✯ Tweet It. Students create fictional Twitter profiles (complete with three tweets!) for supporters of the 15th, 19th, and 26th Amendments. 

• Students are encouraged to include links to videos or websites and to use hashtags as they design tweets supporting the given Amendment. 

✯ Speak Up! Students pretend they are speaking at a Voting Rights rally and write a short speech.

• There are two optional prompts given on this page: to either write a speech about one specific Amendment or to write a speech explaining how the Voting Rights Amendments overall changed voting in America. Pick whichever prompt you prefer, or write in your own!

✯ A Resources slide with web links, links to two YouTube videos for further information, and pictures of protest posters for inspiration. This slide is also editable if you would like to link to your own resources. 

The instructions in this activity for Google Slides are fully editable, so you can differentiate the lesson based on your student’s needs. Want to make it into a choice activity, so students choose which project to work on? Simply change the instructions on the introduction slide!

You will need access to Google Classroom to download this resource. (If you are uncomfortable with TPT accessing your school email account, use your personal email to download the resource, then go to File > Make a Copy, and share that copied document with your school email.) Also, if your students do not have access to computers or Google Classroom you could easily print out these pages and use this activity as physical worksheets! 

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