Election+Resources

toc //updated September 24, 2008// =Election 2008= This page houses links to websites that cover a wide range of topics relating to politics and the upcoming presidential election. The sites range in grade and interest level and the ones in red are probably only interesting to teachers.

Student Sites
[|Weekly Reader Election 2008] [|ZOOM Elections] [|Scholastic News Election 2008] [|Congress for Kids] [|Election Vocab Comics] [|Step by Step on the Campaign Trail] [|Kids Voting USA] [|Online National Election for Kids] - This is an election open to all K-12 students across the country. Polls close at Oct. 28 at 6 pm. Take the online LET'S GET POLITICAL quiz at the bottom of this page. 

News Sites
[|CNN Student News] [|NewsHour] This PBS site is devoted completely to the 2008 presidential election. On this site you can find information about the primaries, what's going on state by state, what the issues are as well as reporter's blogs and lesson plans.  [|New York Times] Here is a NYT site listing all the current candidates as well as giving links to blogs, websites and videos about them. [|New York Times Student] [|Kids Newsroom] [|Kid Post (Washington Post)] [|Time for Kids] [|CSPAN Podcasts] On the CSPAN Road to the Whitehouse website there is a constantly updated collection of podcasts covering and regarding the 2008 election as well as news articles and other information. [|Scholastic News Election Coverage]


[|The Living Room Candidates] - Presidential TV commercials since 1952 [|Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index] - tons of editorial cartoons

Miscellaneous Sites
[|Presidential Campaign Memorabilia]

[|Inagural Addresses]from George Washington to George W. [|Washington Post Presidential Candidates] This site lists the presidential candidates with pictures. Click on the candidate to find out more information about them as well as to look at the issue coverage tracker cloud (this is a way of finding out what issues the candidates are talking about the most)  [|270toWin] Interactive map that allows you to change the states to Republican or Democratic depending on which way they vote in the national election. The website will keep track of how many electoral votes each party has and how many the party needs to win. [|Electoral-Vote]

Teacher Sites
[|Political Classroom] [|The Green Papers] [|PBS By the People] [|Vote Smart] [|Fab Web Sites on the 2008 Presidential Election] [|eLECTIONS] - Your Adventure in Politics. Cable resources for learning. [|PBS Teachers Vote 2008] (I can't get the Access, Analyze and Act lessons to load on my computer, you might have better luck!) [|NewsHour Lesson Plans] This link will lead you directly to the NewsHour lesson plan page. [|Open Secrets] This website gives a ton of information about the election, issues and primaries. It is very focused spending, donors and fundraising. I've put it on this teacher page because it is hard to track the authority and therefore might not be the most accurate source.  [|Teaching about the 2008 Election] This link from the Scholastic News page brings you to lesson plans and ideas from Scholastic on many different ways to teach about the election. Scholastic also offers a page of [|printables]. [|Teachable Moment] Presidential Election 2008: Process & Problems <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 100%"> By Alan Shapiro <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,san-serif; font-size: 100%"> This student reading reviews major steps in the campaign process and such issues as the money race, fairness, and problems with the new voting machines. Suggested discussion questions and other activities are included, as well as links to other articles about issues related to the election. <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-size: 100%">

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<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-size: 100%"> NYT Lesson Plans The following are election-related lesson plans from the New York Times Learning Network Lesson Plan Archive. [|Where do they Stand?] <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-size: 100%">Creating Profiles of the 2008 Presidential Candidates [|On the Leading Edge?] Exploring Presidential Leadership by Examining a Times Column [|Public vs. Private] Examining Positions on Health Care for the 2008 Election and Creating Campaign Advertisements [|Future Voters of America] Writing Letters to the Editor Expressing Concerns about Key Issues in the 2008 Presidential Election [|Party Like It’s 1992 or ’84 or ’76 or ’68!] Exploring How Political Party Platforms Change Over Time

By the way, this website, the [|New York Times Learning Network] is very impressive. Not only do they offer a lesson plan a day, but the [|lesson plan archive] is well organized and easy to use. I would definitely check back here on a regular basis.

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