Teaching Themes
Elections: Everything You Need
Students can use these resources to study elections and participate in one of their own.
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.
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.
True or False? Student Activity SheetGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Use this activity sheet as a supplement to the book Duck for President to teach about elections. |
 Online Learning Activities Women's SuffrageGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Activities to help students learn how women in the United States and around the world won the right to vote |
 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... |
Book Resources Books for Teaching About ElectionsGrades: 3–5 Use these books to help build an awareness of the democratic process and the role our citizens play in it. |
 Lesson Plans May the Best Character WinGrades: 3–5 Students learn about presidential campaigns, through budgeting, speech writing, and other activities in this lesson plan. |
Book Resources Women's Suffrage Books and ResourcesGrades: 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 PartiesGrades: 3–5, 6–8 An encyclopedic article from Grolier Online and The New Book of Knowledge |
Lesson Plans Explicit Vocabulary InstructionGrades: 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 VocabularyGrades: 6–8 Vocabulary instruction emphasizes building vocabulary word knowledge, comprehension and word-learning strategies related to the upcoming... |
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... |
Chronology of Woman Suffrage Movement EventsGrades: 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... |
SuffrageGrades: 6–8, 9–12 Research suffrage, the right to vote in public affairs, and find out how the 15th amendment granted American women suffrage. |
 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... |
Teaching Guides Women's Suffrage Teacher's GuideGrades: 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 |
 Presidential Election VocabularyGrades: 6–8 Build vocabulary word comprehension skills as well as word-learning strategies related to the upcoming presidential election. |
 Activities and Games, Unit Plans It's Your Democracy: Learning to make our communities great places to liveGrades: 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... |
 Election Books for Elementary SchoolGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Help your children understand the election process with these resources. |
 Voting and the ConstitutionGrades: 6–8 Students will learn about the Constitution’s many provisions for voting. |
Election Day Lesson PlanGrades: 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. |
 Parties, Platforms, and PollsGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Students will be able to define and understand important election-related words. |
