🗳️Students line up at a real polling place, show their voter ID, cast a secret ballot and wait for the count. Then they graph the results, write about their choice and talk about what it means to vote, all with kid-friendly choices and no real candidates.
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The Mock Election Day Kit is a 31-page civics resource for kindergarten through 5th grade that lets students experience voting from start to finish. Every ballot uses nonpartisan classroom choices, so the focus stays on how elections work rather than on real candidates.
Students begin with eight election vocabulary picture cards, then receive voter ID cards and follow a How to Vote picture guide. Polling place signs for Election Today, Vote Here, the Voting Booth and the Ballot Box turn a corner of the room into a place to cast a secret ballot.
Ballot choices include Pizza or Tacos?, Favorite Recess Game and a three-choice Class Reward, along with a fillable custom ballot and a write-in ballot. After counting, students graph the results at one of three levels: a picture graph, a tally chart and bar graph, or a three-choice scaled bar graph. Count the Votes practice and an answer key support the math.
Writing pages connect voting to opinion writing. Students complete a "Vote for... Because..." page, plan an opinion piece, draft a campaign speech and design a campaign poster. An After the Election reflection helps them think about winning, losing and accepting results.
"I Voted Today!" stickers, cut-out badges, an "I Voted!" crown and Super Voter certificates celebrate participation. A three-day lesson plan and teacher notes with standards guide the week, making the kit ready for Election Day, Constitution Day, government units, graphing lessons and sub plans.
📖 Teaching guide · 12 min readHow to Run a Nonpartisan Classroom Mock Election in K–5Read the guide →Students learn about voting by actually doing it, and the results they graph are their own. Kid-friendly choices keep the experience fair and nonpartisan, while the leveled graphs and writing planners let K–5 classes use the same event at different depths.
No. The ballots use nonpartisan classroom choices like Pizza or Tacos?, Favorite Recess Game and a Class Reward, plus a fillable custom ballot and a write-in ballot.
It is designed for kindergarten through 5th grade, and the graphing comes in three levels to match different ages.
A 3-day teacher lesson plan is included to guide the activities.
The "I Voted Today!" stickers are Avery 5160 compatible, and there are cut-out voting badges if you prefer paper.
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