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It’s election season.\u00a0What a great time to talk to kids about the events happening in our country, states and local cities. Understanding the election process is difficult for most adults, so any opportunity you can use to teach your kids is valuable.<\/p>\n
To help kids grasp the election, how it works\u00a0and what it means to all of us, try engaging them in some school or classroom elections. You can use real positions such as Student Council President, Class President, etc., or come up with imaginary positions and hold mock elections.\u00a0Get creative here and let the kids help choose the positions;\u00a0Lunchroom President, Hallway Secretary, Mayor of the Library? The possibilities are endless, get as creative and silly as you want!<\/p>\n
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Use these\u00a0tips & ideas to get\u00a0started planning your election:<\/p>\n
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Take some of the “fear of the unknown”out of the equation and you will be helping your students to one day become informed responsible voters.<\/p>\n It’s election season.\u00a0What a great time to talk to kids about the events happening in our country, states and local<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19,34,37],"tags":[745,761,509],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elementary-school","category-middle-school","category-student-activities","category-student-engagement","tag-classroom-elections","tag-school-election","tag-student-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5968,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/5968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itselementary.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Not into mock elections? Try planning some lessons and activities\u00a0around real life elections.<\/p>\n
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