Election Resources

Collected by Gail Lovely for

www.GailLovely.com

Here are a few of the best resources for teaching with and about the United States Presidential Elections which will be this November. These resources are selected for children ages 5-8 years old.

Please email me if you know of other resources, projects or ideas I should include here!

Thanks!

Gail

glovely@aol.com

PBS Kids - The Democracy Project

Learn about Government,

Be President for a Day and more.

Grade Three and Up
http://pbskids.org/democracy/

A Collection of Links on Election News

Especially Good for Teachers to Use for Discussion

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc3/yahooligans/usgovernment

Lessons, Activities and Materials for K-2

(these are offline class activities)

http://www.kidsvoting.org/civics%20alive%20k-2.pdf

CyberBee

Election Activities including campaign buttons to make.

http://www.cyberbee.com/election/elem.html

Lessons and Activities from a Variety of Sources

http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum

/socialstd/Election_Act.html

http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/676.html

http://www.ccle.fourh.umn.edu/rulesbellevue.html

http://205.146.39.13/success/lessons/Lesson7/PSSd2_L.HTM

http://www.co-nect.net/Schools/Election/yourvotecounts.pdf

http://www.cbcbooks.org/pdfs/electionbibliography2004.pdf

http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr271.shtml

http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/elections/tp/elections.htm

Clip Art

http://school.discovery.com/clipart/category/spec1.html

http://www.holidaygraphics.com/july4th/

http://www.theflagpole.com/

http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/july4/clip.html

Fonts

http://www.onescrappysite.com/ (search for "patriotic")

http://www.momscorner4kids.com/fonts/fonts4.htm

(especially USA)

 

PLEASE EMAIL ME if you know other resources I can share!

glovely@aol.com