Tag: voting

Covering the federal election, before the election

Since PM Scott Morrison did not announce the federal election date last week, it will now be held somewhere between March and May (see the post from ABC’s Antony Green for details). Various aspects of elections are covered in the Civics & Citizenship Australian Curriculum in Years 4, 5 and 6. Students are interested in topical issues in society and their local community. After all, it’s adults making decisions now about issues that will affect them, and it students feel quite strongly that they should have a say. Guiding that process from within a classroom can be a good thing.

And regardless of what opinions we hold on particular topics, learning how the voting system works, with assistance from free additional resources by the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission), is useful and one might say essential for everyone in our society. With our Election Activity Bundle, you as a teacher (or home tutor) have everything you need to guide this learning process.

Most of the materials can be used in a remote classroom, with the appropriate PDFs and other resources made available to the students – so they are definitely usable in a COVID scenario.

While the “Show of Hands” Activity of course works fine, doing the secret ballot from the “Running a Class Election” Activity is not practical in a remote setting, and that in itself is something that can be discussed with the students, compensating for missing out on actually doing it… what are the issues there?

The activities are of course specifically aimed at the above-mentioned year levels. However, the base resources are suitable for high school students and adults as well!  Everything you wanted to know about preferences, for instance.

So, while planning the latter part of your first school term this year, grab our Election Activity Bundle today, for only $9.

Election Activity Bundle

With the upcoming federal election, many teachers want to do some related activities in class – and we have the materials ready for you!

To make selecting suitable resources a bit easier, we have an Election Activity Bundle containing everything you need, available for just $9.90.

Did you know that the secret ballot is an Australian invention? Well Tasmanian actually.

Children are interested in topical issues in society and their local community. After all, it’s adults making decisions now about issues that will affect our children. And regardless of what opinions we hold on particular topics, learning how the voting system works, with assistance from free additional resources by the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission), is useful. With our Election Activity Bundle, you have everything you need to guide the learning process.

As these topics are covered in the Civics & Citizenship Australian Curriculum in Years 4, 5 and 6 the activities are of course specifically aimed at those year levels. However, the base resources are suitable for high school students and adults as well!  Everything you wanted to know about preferences, for instance.