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Where do the Presidential Candidates Stand on Supreme Court Nominees?

presented by: PBS NewsHour Extra

No one likes an even number on a court that makes decisions by majority vote. Yet that’s just what the Supreme Court has been left with, eight justi...

The Fight to Vote: A History of Voting Rights in America

presented by: KQED

The United States presents itself as a beacon of democracy on the world stage. But universal suffrage has been elusive throughout its history. Teach y...

Jill Stein and the Role of Third Party Candidates in Presidential Elections

presented by: PBS NewsHour Extra

For this daily video, PBS Neshour Extra asks the question: What is the importance of parties to our political system? Included is a video from Green...

Teachers Teaching Teachers: Dan Doernberg Previews NowComment’s New Image and Video/Audio Annotation Features

presented by: National Writing Project

Join +Dan Doernberg from http://nowcomment.com on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers from August 24th, 2016. (http://edtechtalk.com/ttt). ...

Why Election 2016 is All About Remix

presented by: Lamp

Just as the 1960 election is remembered for being changed by television, the 2016 elections may be remembered as being changed by remix. Candidates ha...

Campaign for Afterschool Toolkit

presented by: Afterschool Alliance

Election season presents an important opportunity to put afterschool on the radar of policy makers and the public in a visible and meaningful way. Dur...

A New School Year And Our Greatest Fear

presented by: Teaching Channel

In this blog post for Tchers’ Voice, 2014 National Teacher of the Year and current Teaching Channel Laureate Sean McComb reflects on how teacher...

L2P 2.0 at Classroom 2.0 Live

Christina Cantrill from the National Writing Project joined this Classroom 2.0 webinar to give a sneak preview of the Letters to the Next President 2...

A Guide to Debates in the Classroom from PBS Election Central

presented by: PBS Education: Election Central

PBS Education has partnered with EXPLO and the Commission on Presidential Debates to create the enclosed debate tool kit for classroom use. This tool ...

Teaching Election 2016 Part 1: What Should I Do In My Classroom?

As teachers prepare to return to the classroom this fall, especially social studies teachers, they face a serious problem. How do you teach about the ...

Make a Plan Through Play

presented by: Educator Innovator

We encourage you to make a plan by playing the Letters to the Next President 2.0 Scavenger Hunt. Join educators from across the country who are makin...

Argumentative Writing Helps Students Become Participants in the Real World

This blog post from Casey Olsen, a secondary English teacher affiliated with the Montana Writing Project, touches on the importance of argument writin...

Election 2016 Resources from Teaching Tolerance

This set of Election 2016 resources from Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, grew out of the responses of 2,000 teachers...

Verifying Breaking News

This lesson plan from Facing History and Ourselves provides a range of resources for educators who want to support students in answering the following...

How did first-time voters see this year’s conventions?

presented by: PBS NewsHour Extra

The Student Reporting Labs team covered the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, exploring each host city to find a diverse range of youth ...

What’s the Point of Political Party Platforms?

presented by: KQED

If you want to cut through some of the election spin and get an idea of what each political party “officially” stands for, party platforms are a g...

It’s Elementary! Writing letters to the next president in the primary grades

presented by: National Writing Project

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. When I was the counselor at a small, elementary school in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Phila...

Teaching With Cartoons – A Visual History Of Donkeys, Elephants, Parties, & Politics

This post from the ASIDE blog – Innovation and Design in Education – which is curated by educators Mercer Hall and Patricia A. Russac, giv...

The Presidential Convention and Nomination Process: A Cartoon Guide

presented by: KQED

Comic journalist Andy Warner explain the race for the nomination in this cartoon guide for KQED’s The Lowdown. Warner provides information about...

Teaching Debate and Media Literacy in a Polarized Political Climate

presented by: Educator Innovator

In this hangout, participants asked what impact the current political climate, often characterized by its divisiveness, has on teaching debate and me...

Hosting a Presidential Debate

presented by: PBS Education: Election Central

Students will watch one of the 2016 debates and then hold a debate of their own focusing on the major issues that emerged from that debate. Students w...

The General Election

presented by: PBS Education: Election Central

Every four years, voters across the United States cast ballots to decide who will be the next president. This video helps students to make sense of th...

Youth Radio on-the-ground reporting from the National Conventions

presented by: Youth Radio

Young people from Youth Radio will provide on-the-ground reporting from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland July 18-20 and the Democratic ...

Make Cycle #5 Archive: Make a Video Letter with your Phone

presented by: Educator Innovator

The fourth summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to make a short video that tells a story about how an election issue...

PBS Reporting Labs Video Letters

presented by: PBS NewsHour Extra

Encourage youth to talk about election issues that matter to them by producing a video letter to our next president. PBS NewsHour Student Reporting La...

PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs at the National Conventions

presented by: PBS NewsHour Extra

Three journalists from the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs will be providing on-the-ground coverage at the Republican National Convention in Cleve...