Students from Delaware’s K-12 schools and their teachers will have the opportunity for a real-time civics lesson on Monday, Dec. 19, as the First State casts its 2016 votes for president in the Electoral College.

Delaware electors will vote at 11:30 a.m. in Legislative Hall in Dover, with students attending the event in person from a dozen elementary, middle and high schools around the state. Other classes — as well as the public — can watch the voting and the discussion about the process and its historical significance on a live web stream.

The event is the result of a partnership among WHYY public media, The Democracy Project at the University of Delaware’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), UD’s Center for Political Communication and the Delaware Department of State.

At the same time that electors from all other U.S. states are voting, Delaware will cast its three Electoral College votes for president. Democrat Hillary Clinton won the First State in November’s general election.

The event in Dover will include WHYY reporters speaking with Ed Freel, manager of The Democracy Project, about the Electoral College. Freel, a former Delaware secretary of state, is also a policy scientist with IPA and an instructor in the School of Public Policy and Administration.

Students and teachers attending the event will have the opportunity to ask questions of Fran O’Malley, a policy scientist with IPA, curriculum specialist with The Democracy Project and director of the Delaware Social Studies Education Project, and John Sweeney, former editorial page editor of The News Journal.

Plans call for Monday’s vote to be the first step in a continuing educational process. WHYY will create a video of the ceremony for classroom use, and The Democracy Project will develop additional educational materials that will be available to all schools in Delaware, O’Malley said.

Targeted primarily to grades five through 12, the video and other online materials will be distributed to educators through The Democracy Project and the Social Studies Coalition of Delaware, he said. The civics lesson also will be incorporated into the project’s summer professional development institute for teachers at UD.

Presiding over the voting Monday in Dover will be Rick Geisenberger, deputy secretary of state for Delaware, and Stephen Marz, state archivist.

Some of the students and teachers expected to attend the ceremony are from Brandywine, Dover, Lake Forest, Laurel, Middletown and William Penn high schools, Conrad Schools of Science and Talley Middle, Brandywine Springs and Leasure Elementary schools.

To watch the live streaming provided by WHYY in cooperation with the state of Delaware, visit the website.