Have students explore related Web sites for further information or assign a mini-report for extra credit. Ask students to take turns presenting a news report each week. They can prepare their reports by reading the week's news stories. Often the question is based on the debate question from that week's issue of Scholastic News or Junior Scholastic. Results can be broken out by gender, state, or grade.
Users can then click to another page to submit open-ended comments about the topic.
News Zone editors review submitted comments and post new ones each day. Click on Kids' Comments to review the comments posted so far. Lead a discussion on the debate topic and then enter your class's vote numbers. Have students figure out what percentage of people voted yes and what percentage of people voted no. Ask students to figure out how students in your home state voted.