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Welcome
to our website's Teacher Resource page. We are pleased to provide you with links to
a wealth of information and resources. The sites include lesson plans, games, and
civic connections designed to help encourage students to be involved in government
by becoming active, voting citizens. Click on the icons below to learn more.
The Digital
Classroom provides Teaching with Lesson Plans containing reproducible copies of
documents from the National Archives. This site also contains tips and topics for
conducting research.
Teacher
Vision is a lesson plan site just for teachers. When you search under democracy for
example, plans such as "Election Vocabulary" and "Know Your Rights" , all grade appropriate,
are provided. Also search under voting and elections for more great
plans. As is stated, "A democracy is built upon elections!"
The Sunshine
State Young Reader's Award Program is a statewide reading motivation program for
students in grades 3-8. The program, cosponsored by the School Library Media Services
Office of the Department of Education and the Florida Association for Media in Education
(FAME), began in 1983. In 2003-2004 there were over 1,100 public schools and 72 non-public
schools participating. Over 101,000 students read enough books to qualify for voting
in the statewide balloting for their favorite book for the year.
The National
Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) established the New Millennium Young
Voters Project in 1998 to try to re-engage more young people in the democratic process.
New Millennium is a national campaign designed primarily to increase civic engagement
levels among the nation's 18-24 year-olds.
It's
unique, it's fun and it works! Kids
Voting USA combines dynamic, hands-on civics activities with an authentic voting
experience to get students involved and ready to be active citizens.
The
Center for Politics promotes the value of politics and seeks to improve civics
education and increase civic participation through comprehensive research, pragmatic
analysis, and innovative educational programs.
The
Florida Civic Ed's Teacher's Page will soon include lesson plans, audio and visual
aids, slide presentations, test banks, and many more resources to help teachers develop
civic education classes. You will also find teacher guides for the use of this site.
Lesson plans are designed around Sunshine State Standards.
Ben's
Guide is an Interactive guide to government for teachers, parents, and students
K-12. Has just about everything relating to government "from information to monuments
to games to songs - this site has it all!"
Whitehouse.gov gives kids a direct link to the White House, providing news for kids, and allowing students to learn about the President and the White House. Also gives teachers access and ways to incorporate website into the classroom.
These links are provided as a service to the voters of Martin County and the Supervisor of Elections is not responsible for the content contained within these sites.
The Martin County Supervisor of Elections is committed to ensuring accessibility of its website to individuals with disabilities. To report an ADA accessibility issue, request accessibility assistance regarding our website content, or to request a specific electronic format, please contact Debbie Dent, Chief Deputy (772) 288-5637, TTY (772) 692-7320, or email [email protected] . We will make reasonable efforts to accommodate all needs.