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Books & Reading

Do you know where your polling place is located and when it is open?

Suppose you ran into some problems at your polling place. What can you do?

Can you wear a button or tee shirt or anything else with the name of a candidate into the polling place?



Polling Place Finder

 

Primary Election Political Parties Election Day Voting Election of the President Candidates National Conventions National Conventions - An Inside View Candidates at the Convention The Campaign Polling Places The Electoral College The Electoral Map The Inauguration

 
Polling Places

Ballots
http://www.abcteach.com/Elections/ballot.htm
Use these ballots when students are voting in a mock election or classroom election. You can write the candidates names in the blanks before you run copies or have students write them in.

Inside the Voting Booth
http://www.pbs.org/democracy/kids/vote/index.html
In this online game, students use a "voting time machine" to learn about suffrage and voting history. Students print out a "voter registration card" reminding them to register when they turn 18.

Make a Voting Booth
http://www.abcteach.com/Elections/booth.htm
How to make a voting booth for your classroom.

Magnetic Polls - Exploring the Results and Effects of the New Hampshire Primaries
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/
20000203thursday.html
Lesson Plan - Explore the New Hampshire primaries and the polling process by analyzing polling information, examining the effects of polls, and creating graphs that represent polling data.

Political Polls
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/US_Government/
GOV0030.html
Lesson Plan - Understand the terms of polling, philosophy of how polls are constructed, how polls may be inaccurate, and how how polls may be used.

Take a Poll
http://www.abcteach.com/Elections/poll.htm
Who will you vote for in the coming election? Use the printable chart to take a poll of your classmates.

Take a Poll #2
http://www.abcteach.com/Elections/poll1.htm
Take a poll of your classmates and friends and ask them this question -- If you could vote who would you vote for?

Voter Registration Form
http://www.abcteach.com/Elections/register.htm
Print and complete.

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The county where you register to vote assigns you to a polling place for each election.

Surf with Uncle Sam
Surf with Uncle Sam

Word Spy
Word Spy

Projects You Can Do

Create polling questions and conduct practice polls on a group of your friends about various current political issues (the economy, the war on terror, the status of health care, the price of gasoline, etc.). Write up your findings.

Research media coverage of past presidential elections to see how much reliance was placed on polling data and what kinds of polling questions were asked. Cover different election years. Use archives from news sources as well as archived polling questions from sources like Gallup.

 

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