This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching 8th standard students about adult franchise and the importance of elections. The lesson plan includes curricular statements, learning outcomes, content analysis with terms and facts, concepts to be taught, learning materials, classroom interaction procedures including introductory activities and reflection, and a concluding activity with review questions. The key topics to be covered are the importance of elections, adult franchise meaning any Indian citizen over 18 can vote regardless of personal attributes, and understanding the details on a voter identification card.

1. Lesson Template
Name of the Student : Felsiya Mary .A
Name of the School : St.John’s HSS, Undancode.
Name of the Subject : Social Science
Name of the Unit : People and State Government
Name of the Topic : Adult Franchise
Standard : VIII
Division : A
Strength : 50
Duration : 45 Minutes
Date :
Curricular Statements:
 Students learn about the importance of election, and
Election Campaign
 Students try to understand ‘Adult Franchise’, and
realize the need and necessity of Election.
 Pupil tries to give priority to voter I.D, which represents
that the individual belong to that particular country.
Learning Outcomes:
 Students try to understand the importance of election and
election campaign.
 To understand the Adult Franchise this provides the citizen
an opportunity to participate in the process of
democracy.
 To know about the importance of Election, as an inevitable
process in democratic country.
 To examine the voter I.D issued by the Election
commission.
 To analyse the notification, of the Election.
 To examine the voter I. D issued to the Adult.
Content Analysis.
Terms:
Indian citizen, Creed, Religion. Race, Community, Language, Adult
Franchise, Democratic, Election, Election Campaign, Participate, Voter
identity card, Adult members, Details, Official system, Candidate,
Significance, obstacles, Violence, threat, bogus votes, notification,
inevitable process, representatives, prescribed, extended, emergencies.
Facts:
 At the time of election, there will be meetings and
demonstrations throughout our country.
 Both candidates and their campaign workers engage in
various activities to ensure that the voters cast their
vote.
 The election commission conducts campaign through
notifications in the media to make the people aware of

2. the significance of franchise.
 The whole official system will function vigilantly at the
time of election.
 In all places in our country, the voter can’t cast his/ her
vote freely.
 In many regions, obstacles in the form of violence,
threat, bogus votes, booth capturing, influencing the
voters by giving them money etc.
 These undemocratic activities prevent many of the
people from exercising their right to vote.
 Hence level of participation in the election process may
not be the same everywhere.
 Election is an inevitable process in any democratic
country.
 The people of a democratic country elect their own
representatives directly.
 Any Indian citizen who has completed 18 years of age can
exercise vote in the election regardless of his/ her caste,
creed, religion, race, community language and region.
 Exercising of franchise provides the citizens an
opportunity to participate in the process of democracy.
Concepts:
 Adult Franchise:
Any Indian citizen who has completed 18 years of age
can exercise vote in the election regardless of his/ her
caste, creed, religion, race, community language and
region. Adult franchise is the most important right
conferred on a citizen in any democratic country.
Exercising of franchise provides the citizens an
opportunity to participate in the process of democracy.
Curricular Objectives:
 Through pictures of Election campaign, Voter I.D
enactments of School parliament Students learn about
the importance of election in any democratic country.
Learning Materials:
 Video Clippings
 Pictures.
 Charts
 Voter I.D

3. Class room Interaction Procedure.
Response.
Introduction:
Teacher interacts with students in a friendly
manner, and asks about who is the class representative? Is
it important to have a class leader? Why?
 Then the teacher proceeds with further questions
about the recent election that just we came across.
 Having got their view Teacher shows some News
paper cuttings related to Election campaign,
Election before and after.
 Teacher asks the students to observe in detail
thereafter to highlight few points based on their
observation.
Activity : 1
Teacher divides the students in 8 groups, and asks them to
discuss the various activities on a polling day and prepare a
report on it.
Hints:
 Voter Identification.
 Exercising the voting right.
Reflection:
 Voting right is the most important features
of democracy.
 Electoral identity card is issued by the
election commission of India.
Codification:
 Election is an inevitable process in any
democratic country.
 The people of a democratic country elect their
own representatives directly.
 In India people representatives, are elected
directly for period of five years.
Activity : 2
Having highlighted about the election as an
inevitable process the teacher asks the students to discuss
about ‘Adult Franchise’.
 Students were active and
interested to know more
about Election
 Election campaign
 Competitive Spirit
 Celebration.
 Voter identification
 Exercising the voting rights
 Voters queue
 Polling officials
 Voting time
 Voting machine
 Agents of Candidate
 Posters of candidates and
their symbols
 The procedures completed
before the exercise of voters
Students were attentive and
interested to gain new ideas.
Adult Franchise:
Any Indian citizen who has completed
18 years of age can exercise vote in
the election regardless of his/ her
caste, creed, religion, race, community
language and region. Adult franchise is
the most important right conferred on
a citizen in any democratic country.
Exercising of franchise provides the
citizens an opportunity to participate
in the process of democracy.

4. Hints:
 18 years of age
 Most important Right.
Reflection:
 Adult franchise is the most important right
conferred on a citizen in any democratic country.
 Any Indian citizen who has completed 18 years of
age can exercise vote in the election.
Codification:
 It provides the right to vote in the election
regardless of his/ her caste, creed, religion,
race, community language and region
 Exercising of franchise provides the citizens an
opportunity to participate in the process of
democracy.
Activity : 3
Teacher distributes to the students the voter I.D and asks
them to See the picture of the electoral identity card issued
by the election commission of India. Examine the voter
identity card and write What are the details on it?
Concluding Activity:
With the help of learning materials, specially using video
clippings the teacher summarize the entire topic. In order
to check the understanding of the students the teacher
asks few questions.
Review:
 What were the various activities are held on a
polling day?
 Why does the Election commission publish the
notification at the time of election?
 Who can cast vote?
 Define Adult Franchise?
 Can you mention different details you can identify
in the voter I.D?
Follow up Activity:
Prepare an Album by Collecting Registered Political Parties
with their symbols.
 Name and address of the
voter
 Signature of the Electoral
officer
 Father’s name
 Male/ Female
 Address
 Photo
 Age
 Constituency