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Elections: Everything You Need

Students can use these resources to study elections and participate in one of their own.

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More Than Mock Elections

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

Teach about elections using the storypath method in which students produce, direct, and act in a mock presidential campaign.

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Lesson Plans, Book Resources

Let the Campaign Begin

Grades: 3–5

Students discuss the presidential election, identify desirable leadership qualities, and create a campaign for a fictional character.

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Election Day

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Check out these great books in the Teacher Store.

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True or False? Student Activity Sheet

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

Use this activity sheet as a supplement to the book Duck for President to teach about elections.

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Online Learning Activities

Women's Suffrage

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Activities to help students learn how women in the United States and around the world won the right to vote

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Book Resources, Books

So You Want to Be President?

Grades: 3–5

All kinds of people have served as the President of the United States. This book, filled with hilarious cartoons (including one of a president...

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Book Resources

Books for Teaching About Elections

Grades: 3–5

Use these books to help build an awareness of the democratic process and the role our citizens play in it.

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Lesson Plans

May the Best Character Win

Grades: 3–5

Students learn about presidential campaigns, through budgeting, speech writing, and other activities in this lesson plan.

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Book Resources

Women's Suffrage Books and Resources

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Books and other resources to help you teach about women's suffrage.

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Articles

The Origins and Functions of Political Parties

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

An encyclopedic article from Grolier Online and The New Book of Knowledge

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Lesson Plans

Explicit Vocabulary Instruction

Grades: 6–8

Vocabulary instruction emphasizes building vocabulary word knowledge, comprehension, and word-learning strategies related to the upcoming...

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Lesson Plans, Quizzes

Applying New Vocabulary

Grades: 6–8

Vocabulary instruction emphasizes building vocabulary word knowledge, comprehension and word-learning strategies related to the upcoming...

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Lesson Plans, Online Learning Activities

Campaign Time!

Grades: 6–8

Vocabulary instruction emphasizes building vocabulary word knowledge, comprehension, and word-learning strategies related to the upcoming...

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Chronology of Woman Suffrage Movement Events

Grades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

See a historical timeline of U.S. women's suffrage events from 1776, when New Jersey granted women the right to vote, to 1920, when the 19th...

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Suffrage

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

Research suffrage, the right to vote in public affairs, and find out how the 15th amendment granted American women suffrage.

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Group Activities

Every Vote Counts!

Grades: 3–5

Students utilize math and language arts skills in this social studies unit that requires them to select a fictional character and then plan a...

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Teaching Guides

Women's Suffrage Teacher's Guide

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Lesson plans and other resources for teaching the "Women's Suffrage: The History of Women's Right to Vote" student activity

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Presidential Election Vocabulary

Grades: 6–8

Build vocabulary word comprehension skills as well as word-learning strategies related to the upcoming presidential election.

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Activities and Games, Unit Plans

It's Your Democracy: Learning to make our communities great places to live

Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

In these engaging lessons, students develop ideas to improve their local community; take positions to actively influence community decision making...

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Election Books for Elementary School

Grades: 1–2, 3–5

Help your children understand the election process with these resources.

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Voting and the Constitution

Grades: 6–8

Students will learn about the Constitution’s many provisions for voting.

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Election Day Lesson Plan

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Students will be able to follow Election Day results as they come in on the night of Election Day. They will learn about the electoral college.

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Parties, Platforms, and Polls

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Students will be able to define and understand important election-related words.

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