Get a jump start on election season with 46 Ideas to Celebrate Our 46 Presidents! We’ve put together forty-six, classroom-approved activities that pair with our book, We the People and the President. Check out the full list of ideas and links to resources below.

Power to the People

1. Create gummy bear representations of government types. Lesson here!

2. Go to the source! Navigate to the CIA World Factbook and research a government type.

We the People

3. Make a Constitution By the Numbers infographic.

4. Learn more with our Periodic Table of the Amendments.

The Government Tree

5. Solve government tree math problems (See Government Tree Math).

The Periodic Table of the Presidents

6. Make your own PTOTP cell as if you were president.

7. Print out and color a blank Periodic Table of the Presidents.

By the Numbers

8. Make a By the Numbers infographic about a president (See JFK’s By the Numbers graphic).

9. Guess that number! Choose a bubble and ask the class to guess the number of presidents.

10. Play the name game by finding the presidents named: James, John, William, George, etc.

The Family Album

11. Find a fascinating family fact in the family album.

12. Research a famous family combo.

Take Me to Your Leader

13. Hunt for five fun presidential facts.

The Political Parties Prism

14. Take an online quiz about political parties.

15. Make your own political party. What would your party believe?

Along Party Lines

16. Research an interesting third party from the past or present.

17. Write an acrostic poem using the word president.

Red State, Blue State

18. Make a cartogram of your home state’s electoral votes (See the Electoral College poster).

19. Go to the source! Find out how your home state voted in the last five elections using 270towin.com.

20. Explore predictions about the 2024 presidential election on 270towin.com.

21. Locate a battleground state and see how it voted in the past five elections.

Counting the People

22. Go to the source! Navigate to State Facts for Students on census.gov and research facts about your state.

23. Find three ways that our country has changed since the first census in 1790.

The Issues that Divide Us

24. Discuss an issue that divides your school or community.

25. Go to the source! Explore “Join, or Die” as a primary source.

26. Examine one of the issues and write about two sides of the argument.

Voter Turnout

27. Go to the source! Find the highs and lows of voter turnout throughout the years.

Presidential Election Firsts

28. Make a poster about a presidential election first.

Famous First Words

29. Choose a famous quote and make a digital poster.

30. Write an answer to Kennedy’s quote: What can you do for your country?

In the Headlines

31. Write a newspaper article about a controversial presidential election from the infographic.

The Accidental Bond

32. Make an infographic about the nine accidental presidents.

33. Accidents happen! Write about what happened to make one of these VPs succeed to the presidency.

Lines of Communication

34. Research one of the inventions in the infographic.

35. Rutherford’s number was 1. Choose a person who you think should have the phone number 1?

36. Telegraph it! Write a message to someone using Morse code.

37. Watch a video clip of the Nixon-Kennedy debates.

Mail to the Chief

38. Write a letter to the president! 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20500

Expanding We the People

39. Find three events and write about how the events expanded We the People.

Obstacles to Voting

40. Write a piece about the personal obstacles you face in your life.

41. Examine one of the obstacles and write about how it limits voting.

The Gerrymander

42. Go to the source! Explore the Gerry-Mander primary source image and write five observations about it.

Seeking Approval

43. Go to the source! Determine the highest and lowest presidential approval ratings on Gallup’s Presidential Job Approval Center.

The Next Chapter

44. Navigate to a presidential home or library on Google Earth.

We Can Do It!

45. Research one of the people featured on the infographic.

A Lasting Memory

46. Take a virtual field trip to the National Mall in Washington, D.C using Google Earth.