Our modern political system depends on the public's view on a wide variety of issues. In this activity, students create and administer an opinion poll of their classmates. The survey instrument includes questions designed to reveal pertinent demographic information such as age, gender, race and political perspective. By developing and administering the survey, students learn how demographic and opinion data can be analyzed and evaluated. For use with The American President video series.
Activities allow students to explore alternative voting methods.
Students discover what advantages and disadvantages each method offers and also see that each fails, in some way, to satisfy some desirable properties. Election 2000 Interactive classroom activities includes a lesson on the electoral college, and Youth Voice 2000, a mock convention designed to introduce high school students to hot topics in 2000 national election. A statistical examination of the vote for Buchanan relative to the votes for Gore and Bush for all of the counties in Florida. Center for Voting and Democracy - Robert Loring, webmaster Examining how voting systems affect participation, representation and governance. Voting sounds like a simple matter.