These five days are teachable moments. Here’s a collection of tools to help your students understand, inform, and navigate our election process.
The go-to site for controversial issues provides a wealth of information for the 2020 election, including candidate statements on diverse issues from “defund police” to “border wall” to “tuition-free college.” Even better, the Teachers' Corner features 2020 election lesson plans and tools for teaching two dozen AP courses, plus ideas on teaching critical thinking.
Browse the ample selection of detailed lesson plans, organized by elementary, middle, and high school.
From the highly respected iCivics.org site comes a complete look at the 2020 U.S. election, from the 2020 Presidential Candidates Guide to lesson plans to games and infographics. Bonus: “Students Power Elections,” an election guide written by and for students.
Teaching Tolerance’s Future Voter Project provides resources to educate kids on voting rights and voter suppression, and more importantly, a guide for registering all eligible students by the time they graduate high school. To examine controversial topics, visit the Civil Discourse in the Classroom page.
This 2020 Presidential Election Interactive Map is a fun and instructive way to examine the likely scenarios for the outcome of the 2020 Presidential race.
Bonus: Share your map via social media, email, or website embed.
Students choose their role and election (past or present). They can manage advertising, events, volunteers, staff, and money to see if they can make history—or reverse it. The app’s model uses real-world polling data, population demographics, and historical voting trends.
