Tuesday, November 8, is the day American voters decide whether it's Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton who will become the 45th President of the United States.

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

High School Social Studies classes have had many conversations about the election, not just the media circus and memes that surround it.

Social Studies Teacher at Foothills Composite High School Ameron Gwilliam says his grade 12 class along with the curriculum has fit right in with political ideologies.

"We actually just recently finished up talking about economic systems," he says. "We looked at and spent a little bit of time at looking different economic policies between in more of a modern liberal perspective which Hillary Clinton would have verses 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's for sure and the student's view points on them are definitely, you getting a lot of class discussion or debate about which one is better or worse."

Despite Americans filling out the ballot box all day Tuesday, Gwilliam says they won't have to talk about the outcome 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 it gets to be 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."