8th – Election Challenge

After spending a week looking at the pro’s and con’s of the Electoral College (related to the fairness and distribution of power amongst the states), the students are ready to start the process of the Election Challenge!  In this case, students are involved in predicting the outcome of the November 3 presidential election, using the game at this website.  Each student, using their school profile, will predict which states will go blue and which states will go red.  These predictions will be done after a decent amount of research (fingers crossed…but some of the students already found their way onto the Federal Election Commission candidate donation tracker and were shocked at the type of money going into these campaigns).

Feel free to have your student show you their predictions thus far and be sure to ask them why they made those choices!

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