Nonpartisan Election Resources

It's definitely an election year--there's evidence of it everywhere. Not to mention, this year seems heated like never before.

Regardless of your political stance, it is always good to know what is going on when it comes to candidates, platforms, and civic engagement. Especially when it's just under 3 weeks away.

Here are some nonpartisan teaching resources for this year's election to help students get a greater understanding on the importance of voting and some of the terminology that bounces around this time of the year. 

• Richard Byrne's Free Tech for Teachers: Common Craft Explains Disinformation

• Screenager's "How To Think Like a Fact Checker" which links to Stanford's Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum.

• Free Tech for Teachers: Every US Preseidential Election through 2012 Explained with a link to Keith Hughes YouTube Channel with 5-20 minute videos doing just this for every election.

• Free Tech for Teachers: A Handful of Videos to Help Students Understand the Electoral College

• PBS Learning Media's Electoral Decoder: An interactive electoral map where you can not only see the electoral breakdown of past elections, but you can use it to predict future outcomes for 2020.

• Enchanted Learning's Election Vocabulary Word List

• Crash Course's Election Basics: Crash Course Government and Politics #36 

• Crash Course's Gerrymandering: Crash Course Government and Politics #37

• My Green Team Gazette Nonpartisan Election Classroom Resources from the 2016 election.

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