The Campaign

All Aboard the Campaign Train!
http://www.pbs.org/democracy/kids/educators/allaboard.html
Lesson Plan - Plan a "whistle stop" campaign train trip across the United States. Create slogans, songs, speeches. Use measurements of time and distance.

Campaign Ad Critique
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2091.shtml
Lesson Plan and Activities - Learn a lesson in media literacy!

The Eye of the Beholder: A Media Literacy Activity
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2106.shtml
Lesson Plan and Activities - Explore the impact the news media have on shaping perceptions and opinions in general and in their coverage of the presidential campaign.

Meet the Press
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2101.shtml
Lesson Plan and Activities - Play the roles of candidate, campaign manager, and journalist in this activity.

The Presidential Campaign Game
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2105.shtml
Lesson Plan and Activities - Experience the workings of the political process and what it takes to manage a political campaign.

President Forever 2008 + Primaries http://www.theoryspark.com/political_games/president_forever/info/
Are you ready to become the most powerful political leader in the world? Prove it in this definitive political election game. Your campaign will be successful through writing speeches, running ads (including attack ads on opponent), and having a rally. The 2008 election or past elections can be simulated, with multiple players or playing against the computer. There is a demo and a paid version that can be bought online.

The Propaganda Game
http://wffnproof.com/inc/sdetail/127
The Propaganda Game is a delightful, highly social game in which players first learn to identify techniques such as: prejudice, casual oversimplification, faulty analogy, tabloid and wishful thinking, hasty generalization, attacking a straw man, appeals to ignorance, emotion, flattery, pity, prestige, folksiness, joining the bandwagon and many, many more. Once players become adept at identifying the techniques exemplified in the humorous examples provided with the game, they graduate to the "expert" level where they gather and create their own examples from the real world or their imagination. The Propaganda Game is a truly wonderful experience in which "who is right" is ultimately less important than the power of your arguments and the assessment of how convinced your fellow players are. Based on the book "Thinking Straighter" by George Henry Moulds, The Propaganda Game strikes a joyful blow for clearer social thinking.

Inoculate yourself, your family and students by learning to identify the many blatant and subtle persuasion techniques used by professionals. Check out The Propaganda Game.

The Road to the Capitol
http://www.nationalmockelection.org/game/
The National Student and Parent Mock Election, the nation’s oldest, largest, and most successful voter-education project, has created this civic education game.  In The Road to the Capitol, the player role-plays a candidate running for Congress.

What Are the Important Issues?
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2093.shtml
Lesson Plan and Activities - Determine the most important issue of the current campaign.

Write a Presidential Speech
http://www.abcteach.com/Elections/speech.htm
Plan your speech using the printable worksheet.

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