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Elections for Elementary Students
Students explore various websites that explain how primaries, caucuses, and general elections function. They view sample ballots, and analyze the executive branch, U.S. presidents, and citizenship.
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Analyzing the 2000 Election
High schoolers research and analyze the year 2000 presidential election results. They identify the reasons this particular election was so unusual and predict how voting outcomes might affect their communities, the country and the world.
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Presidential Eligibility
Young scholars examine what requirements determine who can and can't run for president.
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The Struggle For The Right To Vote
Learners identify historical figures who helped lead others in the voting rights movement, and research historical struggles for voting rights. They develop plans to involve young voters in the election process.
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Discussion-Activity: An Election Primer
Students research and discuss the 2000 presidential election. They role-play Al Gore's and George W. Bush's legal teams, and members of the Florida Supreme Court. They of each legal team present their arguments to the Supreme Court.
Read Works
Read Works: American Government Get Out the Vote
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the voting process. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
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Read Works: A Crooked Election
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about two students running against each other for class president. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
National Geographic
National Geographic: The Electoral College
Discover how the United States elects its president by using an Electoral College. A map shows how the Electoral College's 538 members are distributed throughout all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Government Simulation
Fourth graders will complete a government simulation where they learn about the different responsibilities of each branch of government by becoming the different branches.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Deciding on a Date for the General Election
Investigate the history of selecting the first Tuesday after the first Monday to hold Election Day. Based upon research, decide whether that is a good date to hold elections or if there is a better alternative.
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Inter American Development Bank: Behind Bolivia's "Two Thirds Law"
This is a brief article about the creation of an electoral court in Bolivia in order to help insure more accurate election results.