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Have your students choose a classroom mascot. The kit includes instructions on how to conduct a mock election, activity booklets and election materials.

Audience: Kindergarten to Grade 4
Description: Election simulation kit

Divided into three levels of difficulty, this toolkit offers a variety of activities and interactive learning ideas to allow students to increase their knowledge of the wider Canadian community and their understanding of Canadian citizenship.

Audience: Kindergarten to Grade 4
Description: Interactive learning activities guide

Want your students to experience the democratic process? Running a student council election? This kit contains a step-by-step guide and materials for electing a student council or conducting an election simulation, including tally sheets, ballot box, voting screen and more.

Audience: Grades 5 to 8
Description: Election simulation kit and student council election guide

Developed in partnership with Elections Ontario, Voting Rules! is a civic education program that teaches students about democracy, voting, elections, government and active citizenship through experiential lessons in an engaging graphic-novel format.

Audience: Ontario Grade 5 (or elementary-level Social Studies across Canada)
Description: Civic education program

Developed for Canada’s Democracy Week (mid-September), this lesson plan can also serve as an introductory lesson on the concept of democracy and active citizenship for your civics and social studies classes. Through activity and project-based learning, students will explore Canadian democracy by looking at their own rights and responsibilities in their everyday lives.

Audience: Grades 5-6
Description: Lesson plan

Election simulation kit and student council election guide.

Want your students to experience the democratic process? Running a student council election? This kit contains a step-by-step guide and materials for electing a student council or conducting an election simulation, including tally sheets, ballot box, voting screen and more.

Audience: Grades 9 to 12
Description: Election simulation kit and student council election guide

Developed in partnership with Elections Ontario, Voting Rules! is a civic education program that teaches students about democracy, voting, elections, government and active citizenship through experiential lessons in an engaging graphic-novel format.

Audience: Ontario Grade 10 (or secondary-level Civics/Social Studies across Canada)
Description: Civic education program

Developed for Canada’s Democracy Week (mid-September), this lesson plan can also serve as an introductory lesson on the concept of democracy and active citizenship for your civics and politics classes. Through activity and project-based learning, students will explore Canadian democracy by comparing our system of democratic representation with that of other countries.

Audience: Grades 9-12
Description: Lesson Plan

I Can Vote! takes the mystery out of voting and shows that voting is all about choice. It is intended for literacy classes and the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program, but it can be used for any audience as a plain-language introduction to the electoral system and government in Canada.

Audience: All levels, ESL, low literacy
Description: Teaching resource

This 150-page, full-colour book is a great background resource for any teacher. It recounts how Canadians acquired the right to vote and how they overcame obstacles to exercising this right.

Audience: Teachers and secondary school students
Description: Background resource

Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes at Elections Canada? The Electoral System of Canada explains how Canadian elections are run and describes key aspects of the federal electoral process.

Audience: Teachers and secondary school students
Description: Background resource

Searching for a visual way to explain how federal elections take place? Check out the Maps Corner to find provincial and territorial maps showing federal electoral boundaries and voting results from past elections.

Audience: Everyone
Description: Maps of Canada’s provincial and territorial electoral districts and regions

Elections Canada offers two informational posters for the classroom: the Voting Rules! Democracy in Canada and Vox Populi – The Evolution of Electoral Democracy in Canada.

Audience: Everyone
Description: Background resources for educators and students