Description
An activity that allows to discuss voting rights of young people aged 18 to 35 and create an advertisement to get these people to go vote. This activity is taken from the Voters in Training election simulation program but can be used in other educational settings.
Objectives
- Understand why it is important to exercise your right to vote
- Find ways to promote voting
Documents and links
Features
- Type: Educational activity
- Target audiences: Secondary cycle 1 teachers, Secondary cycle 2 teachers, Youth organization workers
- School subjects: English, Visual arts, History and Citizenship Education
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Links with the Québec Education Program (QEP):
- Subject area : Languages
- Competencies: Writes a variety of genres for personal and social purposes and uses language or talk to communicate and to learn
- History and Citizenship education program:
- Competency: Constructs his or her consciousness of citizenship through the study of history
- Broad area of learning: Citizenship and community life
- Focuses of development: Promotion of the rules of social conduct and democratic institutions and Participation, cooperation and solidarity
- Broad area of learning: Media literacy
- Understanding of media representations of reality
- Cross-curricular competencies: Uses information and structures his or her identity
- Subject area : Languages
- Themes: Media, Voting, Elections, Voter turnout
- Author: Élections Québec