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Brountas, Maria – Teaching Pre K-8, 1996
Describes a unit on voting conducted by high school seniors for first graders in Bangor, Maine. Lists learning goals for both groups, describing how high school teacher and students collaborated with first-grade teacher to develop the unit and construct teaching aids. Details the unit's components, including a voting game, democracy, voting…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Class Activities, Cross Age Teaching
Direct linkMansfield, Margaret; Anderson, Betsy – Teaching Pre K-8, 2004
How can teachers get today's students--and tomorrow's voters--really interested in the presidential election? At Moorestown Friends School, a coed Quaker preK-12 day school in Moorestown, New Jersey, the students participate in a simulated presidential selection process that leaves them energized and informed about the candidates and the issues.…
Descriptors: Voting, Elections, Political Campaigns, Simulation
