Growing Voters is a broad range of original, ready-to-use, grade-specific learning activities and web resources to help teachers integrate the 2008 election immediately into classrooms grades 1-12, to bring it to life and make it relevant to students. Created by a faculty member in Lesley Univ.’s School of Education in consultation with teachers nationwide, an earlier version was used in every US state and downloaded by thousands of teachers in the last election.
Each activity is built for student-centered active engagement to maximize students' inquiry, involvement and motivation. http://www.lesley.edu/growingvoters
Examples include
- Candidate Debate Spin Room
- Student-Designed Online Polling
- Civic Lemonade Stand
- Primary Kids as Reporters
- Blogging the News
Please use and help distribute this free collection of teaching activities to get the election into the classroom: all materials available for free download at http://www.lesley.edu/growing voters