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CNN

Cnn: 2018 Elections

For Students 9th - 10th
Website with information on the 2018 election, polling and news about the candidates.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Election Central: Campaign Manager: 60 Second Presidents

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students watch videos to determine the best characteristics of a president in order to develop a campaign around these traits. Students watch videos of specific presidents and then create campaign posters which reflect...
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Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: u.s. History Lessons: Elections, Parties, Campaigns

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site provides suggestions for lesson plans and unit plans to teach about the U.S. system of elections, political parties, and campaigns.
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Other

Ithaca College:project Look Sharp: Media Construction of Presidential Campaigns

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Provides a multi-unit curriculum kit on presidential campaigns that incorporates media literacy. Downloads include teacher guides, student handouts, media documents, visual and audio materials, and more.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Election Central 2016: The Election Process

For Students 9th - 10th
This link from Election Central 2016 focuses on the Election Process using video clips, lesson plans, teaching materials, and activities having to do with the election process including Campaign Strategy, Getting the Nomination, Election...
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Cyberbee

Cyberbee: Election Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
These Election Lessons contain a variety of activities to use in your classroom, including a history of campaign buttons. Many of the links use primary sources from the Library of Congress.
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Herbert Clark Hoover: Campaigns and Elections

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion and details of Herbert Hoover's campaigns and the elections of 1928 and 1932.
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Harp Week

Harp Week: The Presidential Elections: 1904 Roosevelt v. Parker

For Students 9th - 10th
Examines Theodore Roosevelt's role as chief executive after President McKinley's assassination in 1901, his policies during that time, his campaign to win the Republican nomination for the presidential election, the Democratic...
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: James Madison: Campaigns and Elections

For Students 9th - 10th
Scroll through this article to find an account of the election of 1812 in which James Madison was running as the first war president.
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Lesson Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Following the u.s. Presidential Election

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson designed to be completed over a course of multiple weeks. Students will read news sources to become familiar with national and international policy issues. They will track news coverage of the presidential campaigns and form their...
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: Ap u.s. Government and Politics: Campaigns and Elections

For Students 10th - 12th
Tom Richey's course module offers AP U.S. Government curriculum unit materias, lecture notes, video and PowerPoint presentation on Campaigns and Elections from which students learn about political beliefs and behaviors as well as...
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Museum of the Moving Image

Museum of the Moving Image: Living Room Candidate (Campaign Ads)

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition of presidential campaign ads, 1952-2008, organized by election year, theme, and political issue. Audio/video presentations of ads can be viewed alongside written transcripts, making Living Room Candidate particularly...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: President Harry S. Truman and the 1948 Election

For Students 9th - 10th
Pictorial story of Truman's campaign and victory in the 1948 presidential election.
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Unit Plan
The Dirksen Congressional Center

Congress for Kids: Elections

For Students 3rd - 5th
One of the greatest rights of the American People is the right to vote for the candidate of their choice. Take a look at how this process works at this resource. Information is provided on Election Day, Voting, Election of the President,...
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The Dirksen Congressional Center

Congress for Kids: Election: The Campaign

For Students 3rd - 5th
The race for the White House cannot take place without an official campaign. See how the Presidential campaign process works in the United States.
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Article
University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Johnson 1964 Campaign & Election

For Students 9th - 10th
AmericanPresident offers a comprehensive overview of the 1964 campaign and election of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Content includes a focus on the separate campaigns waged by Johnson and his challenger, Barry Goldwater.
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CNN

Cnn: Election Center 2008

For Students 9th - 10th
A great center for information on the election of 2008, this includes information on the candidates, the path to the presidency, money raised and spent by candidates and the important issues at stake.
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Grover Cleveland: Campaigns and Elections

For Students 9th - 10th
Scroll through this accounting of the presidential campaigns and elections in which Grover Cleveland participated to find the election of 1892. After losing the presidency in 1888, Cleveland won the election. Read about the issues in the...
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: John Quincy Adams: Campaigns and Elections

For Students 9th - 10th
Modern presidential campaigns pale in comparison with the campaigns of 1824 and 1828. Read about the election battles between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: James Knox Polk:campaign and Election of 1844

For Students 9th - 10th
The campaign and election of 1844 showed the rising difference in the nation between Whigs and Democrats and sections of the country. Showing the true development of the two-party system, it also gave rise to the term, "dark horse."
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Harp Week

Harp Week: The Presidential Elections: 1884 Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
The campaign of 1884 was filled with scandals and recriminations from both parties. Read about the conventions that selected presidential candidates and read about the campaigns and election.
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Rutherford Hayes: Campaigns and Elections

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this very thorough discussion of the nomination process for the candidates for both the Republican and Democratic Parties in the election of 1876. In addition, the explanation of the eventual outcome of the disputed election is very...
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Harp Week

Harp Week: The Presidential Elections: 1896 Mc Kinley v. Bryan

For Students 9th - 10th
A three-page look at the campaign and election of 1896 in which William McKinley, the Republican candidate, ran against Wiliam Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate. Read about the nominating conventions, the platforms, and the...
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Other

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library: 1916 Election

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a multi-faceted look at the election of 1916. Read about the politics of the Democratic and Republican Parties and the results of the election. Also, find out about the interests of immigrants, women, African-Americans, and...

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