Tuesday is voting day for Canada's neighbours to the south and the day the United States decides whether it's Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

Locally and nationally Canadians will have at least one eye south of the border, curious to who will take the controls of one of Canada's top trading partners.

High school Social Studies classes have had many conversations about the election this school year. 

Ameron Gwilliam, Social Studies teacher at Foothills Composite High School, says the curriculum in his Grade 12 class has fit right in with political ideologies.

"We actually just recently finished talking about economic systems," he says. "We looked at and spent a little bit of time on different economic policies in more of a modern liberal perspective which Hillary Clinton would have versus a neo-conservative perspective that Donald Trump would have."

Gwilliam says the conversations and discussions that start from classes surrounding the election show the students are paying close attention.

"They're definitely two dichotomous personalities that is for sure, we are getting a lot of class discussion or debate about which one is better or worse."

Despite Americans filling out the ballots all day Tuesday, Gwilliam says they won't have much to talk about until the polls close and the results are official.

"Looking at which states are going which way, we talked about red states Vs. blue states or Republican based and Democrat states and then the swing states as well. So we'll take a look on Wednesday at which swing states went the way they did and how did that play a role in the results."

While the political ideologies aspect remains a constant in the curriculum, Social Studies teacher at Highwood High School Chris Hall says he's taking a different approach when talking about the election with students.

"I've talked a little about media bias and kind of understanding the messages that the media has thrown out to the public and that each media outlet has its own bias towards certain political ideologies and agendas."

Hall says he gets an interesting debate of who watches what each night when it comes to coverage.

"The fact depending on what your political view point and what your political ideology is, you siphon yourself towards what media outlet best suits that."

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