Explore the Election: Political Parties
Resources to assist you in teaching about Political Parties
Follow the action live as Kid Reporters cover the Democratic and Republican parties' conventions and talk to Third Party candidates. Collection includes lesson plans and printables.
Articles
Scholastic News Online | Teach your students how to use Scholastic News Online blogs to express their opinions on non-fiction topics. Includes reproducibles.
Scholastic News Online | Teach your students how to use Scholastic News Online blogs to express their opinions on non-fiction topics. Includes reproducibles.
Parties, Platforms, and Polls
Scholastic News Online |
In this activity, students explore election jargon in Scholastic's online election news coverage and use the jargon to create an election dictionary.
Political Parties
Grolier Online |
A background article on the history of political parties from Grolier and The New Book of Knowledge
by Aaron Broder
Scholastic News Online | March 3,2008
Scholastic Kid Reporter Aaron Broder interviews four-time presidential candidate and consumer activist Ralph Nader.
Activities
Election 2008: Republican National Convention Blog
Scholastic News Online |
Scholastic Kid Reporters Michael Geheren, Jack Greenberg, Aaron Silberman, and Ben Silberman blog from 2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota September 1-4.
Scholastic News Online | Scholastic Kid Reporters Ashlyn Stewart, Jack Greenberg, and Rylee, JoJo, and Brock Domann blog live from the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 25-29, 2008.
