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Get out the Vote Campaign

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While some of your students may be too young to vote, they can get involved in the election process by creating a nonpartisan campaign encouraging voter registration. After researching how to register to vote, class members design PSAs, posters, or even websites, that explain how to register and that urge those eligible to sign up.

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Concepts
voting, voting rights, presidential campaigns, presidential candidates, presidential elections, campaigning, campaigns, political campaigns, the united states government, the united states
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Additional Tags
social studies
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Instructional Ideas
  • Invite a local registrar to speak with the class about the registration process in your area
  • To encourage a wide range of campaign strategies, have class brainstorm a list of possible formats and then have groups volunteer to take on one approach
Classroom Considerations
  • Requires extra prop time to gather materials like posterboard, crayons, or website-building software
Pros
  • Encourages critical thinking as students must consider what would encourage voter registration
Cons
  • None