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Election Day: How Voting Works

  • Grades 5–8
  • About 40–50 minutes
  • 7 lessons
  • HTML + SCORM

Students follow Priya's brother Dev, who has just turned 18, through his first election. The lessons cover who can vote and how that has changed, registering, reading a ballot with federal, state, and local races, a visit to the polling place, how votes are counted and certified, the Electoral College, and what a person can do before turning 18. The course is nonpartisan and names no parties or candidates. Five interactive lessons and a graded quiz.

$6.00Buy nowPlay it with Trailpost PlusPlus members play it in the browser. Buy it here to keep the files.

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What's inside

  • Who gets to vote?
  • Before Election Day
  • Election Day, step by step
  • Counting and deciding
  • Your part before you turn 18
  • Check your understanding (12-question graded quiz, 70% to pass, 3 attempts)
  • Going further (two short videos)

Good to know

Works offline once the file is open. Videos in Going further need internet.

Progress saves in the browser on the device the student uses.

Voting rules differ by state. The course says so and points students to their own election office.

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