Teaching in the Post-Election Period

Resources from the NCSS Publications Archive to support your continuing instruction.

Teaching Controversial Issues
How Do Teachers' Political Views Influence Teaching about Controversial Issues?
Should Schools Teach Students to Vote? YES!

Electoral College
Demystifying the Electoral College: 12 Frequently Asked Questions
Teaching about the Electoral College

Supreme Court
Identifying and Teaching against Misconceptions: Six Common Mistakes about the Supreme Court
Selecting Supreme Court Justices: A Dialogue (Looking at the Law)

Polling
Political Polling in Past and Present
Predicting the Outcome of an Election

Executive Orders
Fear, Panic, and Injustice: Executive Order 9066 A Lesson for Grades 4-6 (Elementary Education)

Executive Power in an Age of Terror

Gerrymandering
The ReDistricting Game: Teaching Congressional Gerrymandering through an Online Simulation Game
How Politicians Gerrymander

Student Protest and Social Change
Teaching about the Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Civil Disobedience and Mass Protest in the 1960s

Voter Suppression
Voting Rights and "Literacy Tests"