You can find lots of teaching and learning resources to help you plan your VERA classroom activities on these sites developed by the New England Literacy Resource Center.

The Change Agent: Democracy in Action

This special this special issue of The Change Agent contains lively articles, student writings, cartoons, graphics, math lessons, and other lessons that are classroom-ready and designed to build student empowerment and engagement. The Issue Extras page includes lessons coming out of the 2008 VERA campaign developed by VERA participants.

Civic Participation and Citizenship Collection

Annotated web sites and original materials.

The 2008 Election Central
This may be the most comprehensive non-partisan website related to the related to the 2008 elections. Developed by the Constitutional Rights Foundation, it offers links to most recent media coverage, blogs, candidates. It also has links to election predictions, opinion polls, election results, cartoons, and civics related topics. The focus tends to be more national than local.

Electing a U.S. President in Plain English

Election Protection 2008 Launch
The 2008 Election Protection campaign, a broad, national collaboration of voting rights organizations and attorneys, went live on August 12 with the launch of its 1-866-OUR-VOTE (1-866-687-8683) hotline. Trained staff will be available weekdays from 9am-5pm EST to field voter calls about voter registration and balloting. State-specific third-party voter registration guides are also available on-line for staff and volunteers engaged in non-partisan voter registration activities across the country.

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