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Vice Presidential debate between Walz and Vance in New York

Daily News Lesson October 02 2024

Key moments from the Walz-Vance debate

Vice presidential hopefuls focused their criticism on the top of the ticket

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Lesson Plan September 09 2024

Lesson plan: Hosting a presidential debate

Analyze campaign issues and practice formal debate procedures and elements of logic with this lesson

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Lesson Plan February 16 2024

Lesson plan: Analyze 2020 and 2024 presidential campaign ads

In this lesson plan, students will discuss what makes advertisements effective and examine ads produced by the 2020 presidential campaigns.

Post November 03 2020

Four Election 2020 Kahoots! to engage your students

Exciting announcement! PBS NewsHour EXTRA began a collaboration with Kahoot! Academy focused on mak…

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Lesson Plan October 22 2020

Lesson plan: Contested elections in American history

Learn more about contested elections in U.S history and the role of the 12th Amendment

FILE PHOTO: A combination picture shows U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden during the first 2020 presidential campaign debate, in Cleveland

Lesson Plan October 19 2020

Four mini-lessons on presidential debates

Explore what makes a debate format work and why presidential debates are important to voters, then watch the next presidential debate

A collection of pins are seen on a cart during a campaign rally for Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in Santa Cruz, California

Lesson Plan June 09 2016

"We Polked you in '44, we shall Pierce you in '52!" Presidential Campaign Slogans

Slogans are a critical aspect of a political campaign: In just a few words, they must summarize the candidate's brand and win over voters. How well do you know presidential campaign slogans from history?

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Lesson Plan May 31 2016

Take a poll, debate the issue: Environmental policy

Where do students stand on environmental policy? In this lesson plan, have students take a poll before and after they debate the issue to see if their views change.

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Lesson Plan May 26 2016

Take a poll, debate the issue: Gun policy

Where do students stand on gun policy? In this lesson plan, have students take a poll before and after they debate the issue to see if their views change.

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Lesson Plan May 25 2016

Who said it? Presidential candidates' quotes activity

Start your class off with this fun election activity! Using PBS' Election Central interactive map, students can test their knowledge of candidates' policy stances by matching quotes with the candidate who they think said it.

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