Teaching Tips on Four Campaign Issues
The New Jersey Press Foundation, on behalf of New Jersey's Newspaper in Education programs, has prepared four pages of teaching tips about the issues on the 2008 national Mock Election ballot.
The content of those pages offers teachers some ideas for student projects as they prepare to vote in the Mock Election.
The suggestions on these pages are intended only to "prime the pump," so to speak ... to get the ideas flowing for other, and likely better, projects and activities students can do between now and the Mock Election.
They are presented as a way of stimulating a degree of enthusiasm, even excitement, about the process of decision-making and voting.
NJPF encourages teachers to send us their feedback and other ideas they have about activities related to the four issues.
The four issues pages are: