Reinforcing+Activity-+Vote!

During an upcoming presidential election, talk about elections and their importance for electing officials.

Read the book Vote! By Eileen Christelow.

1. Using the resources at the back of the book, students in small groups will spend time on the internet learning more about the upcoming election. Each group will report back to the class the information they learned about voting, voting rights, candidates, etc.

2. Students will then follow the election through newspaper and internet sources.

3. Following the election, students will analyze vote counts from each state to determine which candidate got the most popular votes in each state. Students will create maps with a color key to show the popular vote results.

4. After the election results are in, students will color code their maps.

Red-Democrat, Blue-Republican, Blank-Independent.

Map is provided below.



This could also be used for //Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities//

Some ideas taken from Education World. www.educationworld.com