Ideas for Classroom Election Activities:

 Check elections for activity pages to go with these ideas.

  1. Decide on your focus for your election activities.  Are you following a national or local election, or are you going to have a classroom election?
  2. Explain the process of the elections. The process differs depending on the type of election.

Everyone, including the candidates, should register to vote.

Divide into parties and write out issues. What are your party’s platforms?

Each party should select a candidate (or, for larger groups, a few potential candidates).

Have primary elections, in which each party narrows the field down to one candidate.

Each party should have a convention to celebrate their chosen candidate.

Make posters.

Write speeches.

Have a debate between candidates.

Projects:

Make a poster that describes the platforms of each party and the issues that are important for this election.

Make a poster about the person who is running for president, class leader, etc.

Make a Venn diagram comparing issues or candidates.

Take a poll. 

Make an election booth.

Have students register to vote.

On Election Day

  1. Schedule classrooms to vote.
  2. Students sign in before voting.
  3. Students get ballot and enter voting booth for private vote.
  4. Students put their ballot in ballot box.
  5. Committee counts the votes and announces the winner.

 

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