Teach your students about elections, help them consider issues that matter to them, and watch as they lend their voices to our national conversation about leadership.
Political Posters
In this activity, students learn the basics of political campaigns and design their own political poster.
A Seat at the Table Civic Art Project
This lesson plan is designed to help you facilitate the design and creation of your class’s chairs—your “seats at the table” of representative democracy.
Just Vote: Youth Registration Campaign
This lesson supports young people as they design, create, and implement their own voter pre-registration campaigns.
Voting Rights in America Timeline
This timeline explores when different groups of Americans gained the right to vote.
Women’s Fight for Suffrage
Learn about women’s fight for the right to vote in the United States including major leaders and strategies of the women’s suffrage movement.
Civic Conversations: Post-Election Processing
This activity allows students to comprehend and process the results of an election. Please use this document as needed in your classroom- whether as an independent activity following an election or an incorporated source within your curriculum.
Today’s Vote: Voting Rights Restoration
In this lesson students will take on the role of senators to create, debate, and vote on new legislation regarding voting rights for formerly-incarcerated individuals in the United States.
Today’s Vote: Voting and Elections
In this lesson students will take on the role of senators to create, debate, and vote on legislation to improve election policy in the United States.
TVIC: The Electoral College
This lesson encourages students to think about representation in a democracy and examine important legislative issues within the structure of a Senate debate. Students will work collaboratively to create, debate, and vote on a new bill regarding presidential elections.