Voter Registration

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🗳️ Teaching for Democracy is a great starting place to dive into voter education and democracy education in general. Links to other organizations and partners involved in democracy education, as well as lesson plans and resources (some specific to remote learning), frameworks and checklists for integrating teaching about elections and voting more broadly.

Instructional Resources

🗳️The ACLU's Know Your Rights page provides key information about how to exercise your voting rights, resist voter intimidation efforts, and access disability-related accommodations and language assistance at the polls.

🗳️ After sign-up, Rock the Vote provides resources for a democracy class that covers the history and importance of voting, modern-day voting rights, importance of local elections, how voting impacts issues, and the Census.

🗳️The National Education Association (NEA) provides an aggregation of resources including lesson plans focused on civics broadly and elections specifically.

Sample Projects

🗳️SABE is a disability rights organization. There voter education toolkit has lots of resources that could be turned into projects but are not “out of the box”

Sample Projects/Instructional Resources

🗳️Growing Voters provides Election lesson plans and classroom activities on voting to help high school students develop into informed and motivated participants in the U.S. electoral system.

🗳️Learning To Give includes lessons, project ideas, and resources are designed to spark ideas for actions related to raising awareness of the importance of voting.

🗳️The Learning To Give Toolkit provides a set of lessons, service project ideas, and resources designed to spark ideas for advocating for a cause. These lessons and projects teach the strategies, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship.