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Elections – Teacher Resources

Our lessons, printables, and activities on the U.S. electoral process provide great teaching ideas for fall, whether it's a presidential election year or not. Explore election requirements for the federal government with your students. You'll also find great ways for students to get involved in local politics, like holding classroom debates or writing letters to representatives. Units on civil rights and women's history will benefit from resources on the American suffrage movement.
Printables
A Patriotic Book
U.S. Map with State Capitals
Election Project
Wyoming State Map with Capital
West Virginia State Map
New York State Map
Vote! Discussion Guide
More Popular Elections Printables
Lesson Plans
The Presidential Election Process
Classroom Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Lincoln-Douglas Style Debate Procedure
Election Vocabulary Bingo
Presidential Trading Cards
U.S. President: Facts
Inaugural Poetry
More Elections Lesson Plans
References
USA Election Vocabulary
How a President Gets Elected
Presidential Elections
Overview of the Presidents
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
John McCain
Presidents Elected Without a Majority of Votes
More Popular Elections References
Quizzes
Presidential Campaign Slogan Quiz
First 10 Presidents Quiz
Language Arts & Elections Connected
So You Want to Be President?
Election Vocabulary Brainstorm
A Teacher's Guide for Vote!
Great Debates
Informal Debates
Election Vocabulary Bingo Card 6
Election Vocabulary Bingo Card 5
More Language Arts Activities for Elections
Mathematics & Elections Connected
Where You Belong
Great Debate Lessons
Population of the United States, From 1980 to 2000
Population of the United States by State, 2005
Election Poll
Conducting an Election Poll
Kids Count
History Resources
War and Post-War Elections
Election Facts and Figures: 1980s
Election Facts and Figures: 1990s
Election Facts and Figures: 1970s
Election Facts and Figures: 1920s
Election Facts and Figures: 1960s
Election Facts and Figures: 1950s
More Popular History Resources for Elections
U.S. Presidents & Political Figures
President George Walker Bush Biography
Could You Be President?
U.S. Vice Presidents
Governors of the Fifty States
Know the Presidents
History of Presidential Inaugurations
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Lincoln-Douglas Style Debate Assessment
More U.S. Presidency Resources
Federal Government Resources
Order of U.S. Presidential Succession
Barack Obama
Mitt Romney
John Edwards
Rudy Giuliani
Hillary Rodham Clinton
U.S. Census
More Federal Government Resources
American Suffrage Movement
Declaration of Sentiments
Strides for Women Posters
The History of Women's History
The Roots of Women's Rights
Mary Church Terrell
Alice Stone Blackwell
Frances Elizabeth Willard
More Suffrage Resources
Geography Resources
Nebraska State Map
Vermont State Map with Physiography
New Mexico State Map with Capital
Arizona State Map
Florida State Map with Capital
Maryland State Map with Physiography
Indiana State Map
More Mapping Activities

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