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.

This lesson plan is designed to help learners identify, develop, and share their positions on 2008 election issues.

A lesson plan to accompany two interactive activities. In the first activity, students must convert a political ad for Barack Obama into one that promotes John McCain. The second activity has them create their own campaign ad. The ads...

This technology-based instructional activity encourages active engagement in the state elections process as part of a unit to prepare for debates to be held in the Fall of 2010. The instructional activity may also be adapted for use as a...