Social Studies - Elections Research (optional)

As part of our Social Studies unit on Canadian Government and Citizenship, and to prepare students to our upcoming Student Vote election, we have been researching Ward 26’s Councillor Candidates in class.

Unfortunately, we’ve run out of class time and did have a chance to research the different mayoral candidates. I’ve encourage students to do some research at home, if they have some extra time. They can use campaign materials that have been delivered to their homes or campaign websites to find information. The websites for the 3 forerunners are:

Oliver Chow - http://www.oliviachow.ca
Doug Ford – http://dougford.ca/
John Tory - http://www.johntory.ca/home/

There are a total of 65 candidates running for the mayor’s office. Students who are interested in researching some of the other candidates can find their names at this link:

http://app.toronto.ca/vote/searchCandidateByOfficeType.do?criteria.officeType=1

In class, we used a graphic organizer to record our notes and information. Here is copy of that graphic organizer:

http://goo.gl/0mXM5e

We will be holding our Student Election on Friday, October 24th (in Social Studies class). Try and do your research before then, so that you can be an informed voter!