The events of the last 24 hours in Washington DC have stirred emotions in nearly all of us. This morning my students wanted to talk about it in my computer science class (they know that I used to teach social studies). One of my students had heard a reference to the election of 1876 in a news story so we talked about that for a little bit. If you have students asking questions about the same topic, Keith Hughes has a good video explanation of the election of 1876. In fact, he has good explanations of every Presidential election through 2012. 

For additional resources for teaching about the events of the last 24 hours in Washington DC I recommend taking a look at the following collections of resources:

• My awesome curriculum director, Heather Manchester, stayed up late curating this list of resources for staff.
• Carolyn Foote assembled a good Wakelet collection of resources. 
• Larry Ferlazzo has also assembled some good resources and archived some Tweets from teachers sharing ideas about teaching about the events of the last day in Washington DC.