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mock elections
Posted by: Mel #78708

I bought a book that I plan to use for mock elections in my room. I teach 3rd grade. The book is at school, and I can't remember the name. I would like any other information that you may get. I will look tomorrow and post the name of the book.

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Posted by: Rachel #79604

I always tie the elections in with my 5th graders because it is a great way to reach the students . . . and their parents. Check with your local newspaper . . . mine provides free newspapers to my classroom once a week through a program called Newspapers in Education. I tell them what day of the week I would like papers and how many and they are delivered before school starts. They often have special supplements in them just for school students. I set restrictions on my students' current events like . . . it must be about the election or it must be atleast 200 words, etc. I also contact both campaigns and get campaign signs to hang on my bulletin board. These look great!!! Also, show pictures of the candidates -- and the vp's because often the students have heard the names but don't...
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Posted by: Stacy R #83962

I have taught some about elections, especially at the beginning of the year. I had the class vote on who would be a good "Fire Chief" for when we had fire drills, etc. I then talked about elections and even how we nominate people.

Yesterday, we were studying maps and when they saw Washington D.C. we started talking about the election.

My ideas aren't that creative, but I like to talk about it, and hopefully, they will talk to their parents about voting!

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Posted by: hmm... #84218

Don't you think mock elections in elementary school is a little much? Kids this age don't understand the issues or have well-developed opinions on either candidate. They just parrot their parents (not that there's anything wrong with that at their age.) I think it's important to discuss the election process, how our government works, and some issues surrounding the election. I draw the line at mock elections, especially since many of the not-for-profits that sponsor such school elections receive results and then know how to cater their last-minute campaigning in your area based on children's (read: parent's) "results." Does no one else worry about this?

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Posted by: elections #86373

I did a mock election in my fourth grade class last year, and we're in the process of doing it again this year.

We began with Primary Elections, where anybody in the class could run for President. They had to say a speech to pursuade people to vote for them, and then we held a secret ballot election. The two candidates that won selected Vice-President running mates, and everyone else ran for either the Senate or the House of Representatives. Everyone gave another speech, and then we held the final election. (Make sure to talk about voting for the best candidate instead of their best friends!) Anyone who did not get an office was appointed to the Supreme Court. This gave everybody an office, and so everybody felt included.

Then we followed the election with an activity on how a ...
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Posted by: teachfla #85934

We decided to combine the presidential election into one of our required SS units on American Government. For the voting section of our unit, we are using lots of activities from the Election teacher's book put out by Scholatic. We read "Duck for President" (stars duck from "Click, Clack, Moo" and "Giggle, Giggle, Quack.") I bought a super kids' book called "Vote" from Scholastic, too, that goes quite in-depth about how the election process works (including recounts -- so important here in Florida!)

We are creating election time lines (showing how long an election really takes), doing a Venn Diagram about the basic platforms each candidate is running on, and filling out voter registration forms so we can vote in our school-wide election on Nov. 2. On the school's morning news program, th...
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Posted by: mom2boys #83903

I always start the year off with a citizenship unit. We learn about our country and discuss symbols like the flag. We will be using Weekly Reader materials to learn about the candidates and hold a mock election. I'm holding off until October to do that part so that it will be closer to the real deal.
One mother told that her daughter had come home full of information about presidents and elections. After listening to her go on and on, the mother asked her who was presidents right now. She said, "Jimmy Buffet!" We still don't know where THAT came from.

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Posted by: Lori #84015

Scholastic weekly magazine has a good article on the elections. I'm currantly teaching with 3 others at the same grade level. We set up voting booths where our students can cast their votes and place them in a red, white and blue box. Students get a sticker after voting. Last time we made "I voted" stickers. This time they get an American flag sticker. We have students count the votes and post the winners. Last time other grades did similar things and we published the results by grade level and then the whole school. Some of the upper grades had students vote for the mayor also. Some had spaces for right in votes.

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Posted by: Katie #85577

I conduct an election activity with my kindergarten class each year in November (to teach them about the voting process and good citizenship). Most are clueless about how the President got his job.
1. Fill out a voter registration card (name and age) on an index card. We talk about having to be a certain age to vote, go to school, drive..
This is done during free choice time and I have some students be responsible for a voter registration drive.
2. Introduce the canidates. I use three beanie babies related to themes/interests in our classroom (ie. Stripes--the bear has red, white, and blue stripes and we salute the flag each morning). The bears should have some relevance to the students. I do this at group time.
3. Set up a voting booth and create a ballot (using pictur...
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Posted by: Jeannie #24475

Congratulations on taking on the job of Student Council sponsor for next year. I was student council advisor for 15 years (although not for the last two due to a building change). Student Council is a marvelous way for students to have a positive role in the success of their school.
Each fall we would have elections to choose student council officers. Since I taught in a
K-6 building, officers came from the 5th and 6th grades. Each student running for an office (President, Internal VP, External VP, Secretary, Treasurer) had to collect signatures of two students from each grade and two staff memebers that felt they would do a good job in that office before they were allowed to run. I also required a parental permission slip since meetings were held after school. I fou...
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