With the presidential election just a month away, the campaigns are heating up. In addition to the official candidate sites for Barack Obama and John McCain, here are some online resources for students to learn about the election process...
"It takes 270 electoral votes to win the Presidential election." This interactive map shows each state and the number of electoral votes they control.
"The National Student/Parent Mock Election seeks to turn the sense of powerlessness that keeps young Americans and their parents, too, from going to the polls into a sense of the power of participation in our democracy."
This PBS site for grades three to six is evergreen because it does not specifically cover the 2008 elections, but rather the process itself.
Rock the Vote makes "political participation cool" by "incorporating the entertainment community and youth culture into its activities."
Scholastic: Election 2008 is my pick-of- the-day for grades three through eight.
Math and Voting. One of the surprising aspects of voting that we learn from mathematics is that the outcome of an election may more accurately reflect the voting method rather than the voters' wishes.
Just because you're not old enough to vote, doesn't mean you can't add your 2 cents.
Banking on Becoming President. After nine months of fundraising, the candidates for president in 2008 have already raised about $420 million
Because a democracy is a government led by its people, voting to elect our leaders is a vital responsibility. As next year's presidential election is just twelve months away, here are some online resources for learning about the American political proces
From "Absentee Voting: a method of voting which enables registered voters to vote in a given election without physically going to the polls" to "Straw Poll: a non-official, non-scientific study of voter preferences", C-SPAN in the Classroom defines nearly
"The American system of elections grew out of intense debate and discussion in the Constitutional Convention.
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