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Upper Merion Area Middle School's Mock Election Ballot
http://www.quia.com/web 1. Since we couldn’t test run the mock election, we needed an external survey that could handle around 1,000 submissions. 2. We wanted to be able to export the data into an excel format so that our social studies and math teachers could do analysis on the data with students. 3. We wanted to have the results immediately after the last student had voted so that we could use the student enthusiasm that built during the day. We were able to announce the outcome during the announcements before students left school that day. 4. We wanted to be able to sort the anonymous votes by academic team. We had calculated a formula that the academic teams had Electoral College votes. 5. We wanted to create a simple ballot that grades five through eight could use. 6. The survey was very easy to set up on Quia. 7. We already had an account with Quia, so the ballot survey didn’t cost us any money. || Please check out the projects that the 5th, 7th, and 8th grade classes did to research the candidates and the election process. There are three websites that we highly recommend using in the future: For grades three through five, The Democracy Project by PBS Kids http://pbskids.org/democracy/. For grades seven through 10th, try Select a Candidate and Elections: Your Adventures in Politics. Take a look at some of the sample projects. || Our eight grade social studies teachers set up voting times for each team. The library organized 2 laptop carts and one library computer lab as voting stations so that a total of 60 students could vote at the same time. We had volunteer eight grade students who gave instructions about the logon in procedure before each group voted. Much to our great surprise everything went smoothly. When we closed the voting stations, we quickly accessed the data and exported in excel format. We announced the winner of the presidential election and the results of the Referendum Questions. ||
 * [[image:MockElectionLibrary.jpg width="432" height="181" caption="Voters Are Welcomed into the Library Voting Station"]] || The Upper Merion Area Middle School teachers wanted all of our students to participate in the Student Mock Election sponsored by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of State. To be part of the mock elections, voting results had to be submitted on Oct. 30, 2008. Although there was an electronic ballot ( [|www.dos.state.pa.us/mockelection] ) that schools could use, we decided that this ballot and process did not work with our educational goals. We looked at different online options and decided to use Quia’s survey. ||
 * [[image:MockElectionSetUp.jpg width="408" height="259" caption="Laptops Were Used For Voting Machines"]] || REASONS WHY WE SELECTED QUIA SURVEY
 * [[image:MockElectionSetUp.jpg width="408" height="259" caption="Laptops Were Used For Voting Machines"]] || REASONS WHY WE SELECTED QUIA SURVEY
 * [[image:McCainCreateCandidate.jpg]][[image:CreateCandidateObama.jpg width="217" height="308"]] || PREPARATION FOR THE MOCK ELECTION
 * [[image:MockElectionLabVoting.jpg width="407" height="235" caption="Students Voting in Library Lab"]] || THE ACTUAL MOCK ELECTION