Florida SS.7.CG.2.7
The Standard
Identify the constitutional qualifications required to hold local, state, and national office.
Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use the U.S. Constitution, Florida Constitution, and a local charter to find age, citizenship, elector, and residency requirements. They compare requirements across offices and identify which document governs each office.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can determine whether a candidate qualifies for president, Congress, Florida governor, state legislator, or a selected local office. They support each decision with the correct source and requirement.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often assume every office has the same age and residency rules. They may treat education, work experience, party membership, or winning an election as constitutional qualifications.
How to Assess It
- Give students one candidate profile and source excerpts. Ask which three listed offices the person qualifies for and require one cited detail for each decision.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups office cards, candidate cards, and source excerpts, then have them sort each candidate into eligible and ineligible columns.
Ask students to write which qualification changes most across offices and explain why lawmakers may have set different rules.
Play Qualification Match, where teams pair offices with age, citizenship, elector, and residency cards, earning points for correct source citations.
Choose a recent local candidate and compare the candidate's public biography with requirements listed in the city or county charter.
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Related Standards
- SS.3.CG.3.2
Recognize that government has local, state and national levels.
- SS.8.CG.2.1
Identify the constitutional provisions for establishing citizenship.
- SS.8.CG.2.2
Compare the legal obligations of citizens at the local, state, and national levels.
- SS.7.CG.2.6
Examine the election and voting process at the local, state and national levels.
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