Canada is gearing up for a federal election.  Here are some resources and ideas you can use to make it a part of your homeschool learning.

Resources:

Nodice.ca, "an independent website which contains educational resources and links for Canadian teachers and students, and information about federal, provincial and territorial elections in Canada." This looks like a really great resource for any time there is an election of any sort.

Canada Federal Election 2008 is a portion of the site dedicated to the upcoming election. Lots of great information and links.

Students Vote Organization "a non-profit, non-partisan organization that works with educators to establish habits of democratic citizenship within young Canadians." "The Student Vote parallel election initiative was designed to give students an opportunity to develop and practice the habits of democratic citizenship during official election campaigns." This is their 5th year in operation. It says it is "open to all elementary, junior and senior high schools and there is no cost to participate. Any teacher is eligible to register their school. " I'm not sure if that includes homeschools or not but I'm trying to find out.

Link to Learning is a site "Linking you to web sites supporting the Ontario curriculum." Although it states it is specifically for Ontario Curriculum it can be a great resource to any homeschool.

This resource is not specifically for the election but I found this work sheet, about the different levels of government and their responsibilites, from the site. In reality there is nothing fancy about this worksheet and you could quite easily just make your own without printing it off.

Government in Canada is the site you are supposed to use to fill in the worksheet. It has great information about the different levels of government and their responsibilities.

Canadainfo is the main site where the page above is found and it is another great resource, not just for the election.

Election 2008 is a specific section of this site for the upcoming election. It looks like it will be a great resource.

National Post Election 2008

CTV 2008 Election

Canada Votes 2008

Ideas:

Contruct your own "Count Down to Election Day" poster.
Making a poster of the ridings in your area and fill in the candidates running for the different parties in each riding.
Make a little mini booklet about the party leaders.
Discussion the voting age limit
Discuss the history of the right to vote
Collect political cartoons
Make an Election 2008 lapbook

I will add to both the resources and ideas as I find more.  I'd love to hear what you do and what you find.  Please leave a comment.