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Connect Kids with This Week's Events Using Engaging Activities and Discussion Topics!
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An easy-to-print version of the Kit is also available for free download on the document-sharing website Scribd.com.
Activities!
Ready-to-implement activities to engage with kids included in the Kit are:
- Watch a Presidential Stump Speech...and Invite Kids to Write Their Own
- Separate Fact from Fiction: Analyze the Campaign Rhetoric
- Collect or Make Campaign Tokens and Posters
- Be an Eyewitness to History
- Host a Mock Election
- Visit a Presidential Historic Site, Library, or Website
- Play a Game of Presidential Trivia
To check out all these activities, click here.
Articles!
Exclusive, thought-provoking articles, each with its own discussion questions and activities include:
- "Help Wanted: President of the United States"
- "Persuading the People: Campaigning for President"
- "The Second Shall Be First: The 1948 Presidential Election--Truman V. Dewey" by Renee Critcher Lyons
- "From Peas to Paper to IPads: The Evolution of the Ballot in America" by Heather Lang
- "The Donkey and the Elephant" by Helen Kampion
- "Presidential Debates: Watch the Debates with Your Kids and Teens" by Mary Brigid Barrrett
Some of the ideas and activities provided in the Kit coordinate
with the content and illustrations in the NCBLA's award-winning anthology Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (Candlewick Press), but most of the activities
can be used independently of the book. We invite you to print and adapt content from the Kit as needed or to
browse the pages using your smart phone, tablet computer, or laptop while on
the go.
Click here to check out the complete Race to the Ballot: Our White House Presidential Campaign and Election Kit for Kids!
About Our White House and OurWhiteHouse.org
Our White
House: Looking In, Looking Out was created by the National
Children's Book and Literacy Alliance as a collaborative effort by over one hundred
award-winning authors and illustrators. Our White House is an incomparable collection of essays, personal accounts, historical fiction, poetry, and a stunning array of original art, offering a multifaceted look at America’s history through the prism of the White House. Our White House is available in both hardcover and paperback from Candlewick Press.
The Our White House anthology is supported by a
companion educational website, OurWhiteHouse.org,
which
expands the book content with additional stories, primary sources,
articles, activities, and discussion questions related to book topics. The Race to the Ballot: Our White House Presidential Campaign and Election Kit for Kids is the most recent addition to this site, which has been named a Great Web Site for Kids by the American Library Association! Both Our White House: Looking In, Looking
Out and OurWhiteHouse.org are projects created by the NCBLA
to not only promote literacy, but to also
excite people of all ages about our nation’s rich history. Learn more about how parents, teachers, and
librarians can inspire young people using the Our White House resources
in the online article "For Educators: Using
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out and OurWhiteHouse.org in the Classroom."
