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- Campaign '96:
Third Party Time? (JFK School of Government)
- Cases and
Materials on American Federalism (Amber/Purdue)
- Extensive course materials provide primary documents on political
theory and American history with sections on the founding fathers, three
branches of government and civil rights issues
- Texts include Magna Carta, Locke, Hobbes, Montesquieu
- Various drafts of the Constitution, excerpts from the Federalist,
numerous court cases
- Section on the Electoral College includes list of faithless
electors, presidents who won by plurality rather than majority, and four
cases where winners of the popular vote lost the election
- Election Day
Simulation (University of Washington)
- Game to teach the electoral process; may take 10 minutes to 6 hours
- Players choose candidate and campaign staff
- React to circumstances, issues, crises and geography
- Election results can be analyzed at the end of the game
- Game must be downloaded from web site to a hard drive
- Teaching
Political
Science (American Political Science Association)
- Curriculum recommendations, course syllabi, civics education, using
the internet
- Essays and articles from previous issues of
PS
- Teaching Politics:
Techniques and Technologies (College of New Jersey)
- Conference papers, multimedia sources, and archival web sites for
teaching postsecondary political science
- Archival discussions of the H-Teachpol listserv
- Teaching
Resources (University of Colorado)
- Annotated guide to teaching techniques
- Political Science course syllabi
- Links to textbook publishers
- Voting
Behavior: The 2004 Election (UMich Only)
- On-line textbook
with
exercises on using Berkeley's Data Analysis Software to measure the 2004
results and voter characteristics
- Based on the American National Election Study of 2004 from
ICPSR
- Blue
Web'n Library of Learning Resources
- K-12 Internet research tools and class assignments
- Political science appears under History and Social Sciences as well
as Community Resources
- Civitas
- Lesson plans, syllabi, and textbooks for civics education worldwide
- Aimed primarily at K-12
- Civitas is an international non-governmental organization
- Congress
Link
- Lesson plans on the political process for K-12
- How to contact Congress
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