Celebrating Democracy: Presidential Inaugurations and Speech
Teachers are always trying to find connections between the "real world" and the skills taught in the classroom. In an election year, the inundation by the media of persuasive messages provides an ideal opportunity to make this connection. This resource guide takes advantage of the students' interest in the activities around them to connect them to the elements of persuasion and the electoral process.

Election Time Study of U.S. Presidents
In years of presidential elections, interest is heightened among students and their families about the U.S. Presidents and U.S. history. Using the suggested resources in this guide, take your students online to discover information about the presidents and their work, children who lived in the White House, presidential pets, the presidents as young people, and where the presidents lived when they were young. Think of all the exciting projects featuring presidents, U.S. history and elections that you can do with your students!

"Votes for Women!": The Suffrage Movement in the United States
The quest for women's suffrage in the United States was a 72-year struggle for the simple and inalienable right of representation and equality for women. The sites collected in this resource guide present a variety of material on the history of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, including essays, biographies, images, maps, timelines, and even music.

"Votes for Women!": Suffrage Movements Around the World
Excluded from voting in ancient Greece and the Roman republic, as well as in the new democracies emerging at the end of the 18th century, women the world over have waited and worked for the right to vote for a very long time. By the middle of the 20th century, over 100 nations had enfranchised women. The links in this resource guide present a great deal of information about the fight for suffrage around the world, including history, biography, timelines and more.

Politics, Elections, and Mathematics
There are many ways to incorporate mathematics into the study of the political process. With the 2000 Presidential Election in full swing, this is a good time to begin charting the Presidential race, Congressional elections, and local elections. This resource guide presents sites on numerous math-related topics including surveys, statistics, comparisons of elections results from 1860 to 1996, and the various methods of determining the winner of an election, as well as several Internet-based lesson plans, political trivia, and sources for current events and interesting articles.

It's Election Time
Elections and voting are always fascinating to children. A presidential election is a perfect opportunity to get students involved and teach them a little bit about how our political system works.

Presidential Hopefuls
The Presidential Canidates for 2000 have a debate to become their partys Primary Canidate

Ad Campaign: A Mock Student Election
Students analyze and produce campaign ads for a mock election, learning about mass communication, the election process, and the psychology of "selling a candidate."

An "Uncommercial"
Many problems in our environment and society do not always receive the attention in the mass media that they really deserve. It is also well known that one of the best ways to really learn something is to have to teach it to others or present it to an audience.

Local Election
Students develop and run a campaign to add a stop sign at a dangerous intersection. The unit uses software from the Apple Education Series: Math Tools bundle.

This year, as every four years from the beginning of the republic, candidate and press will be joined - often suspiciously, sometimes in hostility - but always from necessity as essential partners in the quadrennial dance of democracy. Intended Audience: This content is designed for students in Grades 7-12.

Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections:1932-1996
This is a large Abode Acrobat file (just over 3Mb) containing state by state and party by party election statistics for elections from 1932 to 1996. The file, which is intended to promote a book by the same name, can be viewed but not printed. Even so, it is an interesting and useful resource for students studying the history of U.S. elections or political parties.

Elections USA
This is the place to go for information on current political polls and State and Presidential elections.You will find articles on current events affecting the elections and specific statistics on all current candidates.

Elections in American Memory
This site is a historical look at elections in America. Use this site to explore the literature of American politics.

Official Vote Counts for Federal Elections
These are the official election results for the House, Senate, and Presidential Electors of all states and territories tabulated by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. They are indexed by year. Only years 1992 and later are in HTML format. All are available as PDF files.

Internet Assignment: Elections and Campaigns
If you are looking for a ready made lesson plan using the Internet, particularly if your students are working with percentages, this site has interesting election-related activities and a bit of political trivia, too.

History of Presidential Elections
Colorful graphs for both electoral and popular votes for all US Presidential Elections from 1796 through 1996 are presented on this site. They also have the results from all of the 2000 Presidential Primaries. Since the 2000 statistics are not yet available, your students could use the information they gather from other sites to make similar graphs to predict the election results.

Abraham Lincoln on Democracy: "The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

James Freeman Clarke: "A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation

Carl Sandburg: "All politicians should have 3 hats -- one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected"

Elephant:
An elephant is a very large mammal with a trunk, ivory tusks, and thick skin. African elephants have larger ears than Asian elephants. The elephant is the symbol of the U.S. Republican Party.

Donkey:
A donkey looks like a small horse, but it usually has larger ears. Donkeys stand about 4.5 feet if measured to the shoulder. The donkey is the symbol of the U.S. Democratic Party.

Democratic Party:
The Democrats or Democratic Party in the United States have a background that dates back to Thomas Jefferson. This political organization wasn't called the Democratic Party during Jefferson's life; it received its name in 1828.

Republican Party:
There are two main political parties in the United States. One is the Republican Party, often called the Republicans. It was organized in 1854 and held its first convention in Michigan.