Have students apply their research to current issues using projects such as the following:

• Have students research topics such as the actual percentage of votes cast in various provincial and federal elections and the percentage of women and men who vote.
• Ask students to think about why it is important not only to have the right to vote, but to vote.
• Have them create a poster, radio or television advertisement to promote the need for people to vote in elections.

Student Resources

• Assessment Rubrics

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