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This Year's Focus

This is a county-wide election year. Click the age group below to find tips for excellent suggested lessons to use this year.

Grades K-2
Grades 3-5
Middle School
High School

Events and Activities

New for this year is the updated and expanded Kids Voting USA Classroom Activities! It retains what teachers liked best about the previous materials and the enriched content and variety of themes allows teachers to incorporate civics education throughout the year. In addition to the original Elections section, new sections on Suffrage, Democracy, and Active Citizenship have been added. The activities are fun, interesting, and educational, and they have been aligned with the North Carolina Standards for Social Studies, Language Arts, and Math so that they are outstanding tools to help teachers meet their teaching goals. (You can view the alignments in detail by clicking here.)

The Kids Voting USA Classroom Activities materials are available on CDs and in manual format, and also available online at www.kidsvotingusa.org (In the Classroom). For information about how to access the password protected materials online or to order materials in another format, contact Kids Voting-- Guilford County at 336-373-8773 or by email at info@kidsvotingguilford.org.

Excellent resources for educators and students can be found in our Link Library.

Additional local materials educators will find helpful in doing Kids Voting locally are also available.

To get started, use the links below for Teacher Guide information.

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Hold Voter Registration for students
Consider other ways to celebrate our country's freedom and democracy during the week, such as by using the Wish Tree activity (Classroom Activities K-5); having Red, White, & Blue Day; or planning a special class or school program. Consider a special activity every day; inform KIDS VOTING office for possible media coverage. This is a great time to encourage older students to perform some type of community service.

If age appropriate, consider sending home letter to help students identify correct precinct.

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student activities!

“I enjoy working with Kids Voting because of the enthusiasm and commitment I feel both from the adult volunteers and the students participating. It is truly inspiring to see over a thousand volunteers, in Guilford County alone, working to provide a voting experience for our students?”

- Anne Sheffield, Teacher, Board Member

“Kids Voting provides me with an excellent platform to teach students the importance of voting. The out-of-school support such as organizing and manning the Kids Voting booths on Election Day is a great tool for educating middle schoolers about voting. The Kids Voting Program is often seen as an October through Election Day activity, but I use the materials throughout the year.”

- David Roberts, Teacher

“Kid's Voting creates the perfect plan for me to impact my students' knowledge of their individual voice in our democratic government. Kids Voting is a red, white and blue opportunity for teachers to develop strong citizens and to become better informed instructors.”

- Brenda Lenna, Teacher

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