WebQuest
Get out and VOTE!
Process
Expected Outcomes
- You should work together in your team, utilizing the resources below, to help answer the following key questions to develop the team's strategies and PowerPoint. You must use at least 2 of the resources below in justifying your answers.
- Please ensure that one member of the team records the answers to these questions in a written document, in full, and submits the document to the teacher by the end of the class on Day 2. This will be a graded assignment counted towards your over-all grade for this class. Please see the rubric in the 'Evaluation' section for relevant grading information.
- Once the Key Questions assignment is complete, you will use the information gathered to produce a PowerPoint which reflects your party's platform, campaign approach and candidates, or if on the Election Committee, a breakdown of the election process and the topics for the debate. This will be presented at the end of Day 3, please ensure that the PowerPoint is COMPLETED by the END of Day 2.
Key Questions
Running Teams
The running teams will be actively involved in putting together a campaign for each team's party.
As a running team you will need to address the following key questions:
- What is your party called? And what are the party's main platform/beliefs? (Please be creative! They don't have to be names or beliefs that exist in a current party).
- How will the tasks be divided up in each of your teams? Who will be responsible for campaigning? Who will take responsibility for the debates?
- Who will be the nominated candidate? Who will be their running mate? Why?
- What does the party wish to convey to the other party? How will this be incorporated into the campaign, debate, and speech strategies?
- How will you convince people to vote for you? What factors might play a role in who votes for you?
Election Committee
As the election committee you will have to address the following key questions:
- What will be the main issues to be debated and addressed? (Please be creative, they do not need to be issues being debated in the current election - consider what is relevant to you and your peers).
- How do you plan to structure the election? What type of 'system' will you use? Why?
- How will the tasks be divided up on your team?
- How will you run the debate? What format will you use? How will you moderate it?
- Who will be in charge of the logistics - making ballots, etc?
- How will the actual election day take place? How will you ensure that voting is fair and transparent?
Good luck - and may the best candidate win!
Attachments
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2012 Presidential Debate
Description: Please note that you should not watch more than 10 mins of this video - 10 minutes should be enough to see how the candidates are approaching their debates, or the moderator is approaching his role.
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Information on debates
Description: Please note that this link contains links to other interesting information about debates.
Information on current issues
Description: For information on contemporary political issues please reference on of the following news sources: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Independent (UK), The BBC Online. Any of these can be found by doing a simple search in a search engine (like Google).
Description: For information on contemporary political issues please reference on of the following news sources: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Independent (UK), The BBC Online. Any of these can be found by doing a simple search in a search engine (like Google).
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Information on student leadership
Description: This is part of an e-book. Please be sure to search for areas relevant to your assignment.
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