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Section 3: Culture of Voting
Public Opinion
- Public Opinion Lesson Plan—Includes in-class polling activity
Media Literacy
- How the Media and Special Interest Groups Influence Elections (Oregon Secretary of State)
- Identifying Reliable Resources: Strategies to Analyze an Issue (Oregon Secretary of State)
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Lesson Plan 6: Representative Democracy in America
- Materials on DVD; request DVD from info@civicsfirstct.org - free of charge while supplies last
- Link to purchase DVD
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Who Do You Trust? (Media Education Lab)
- Several lessons on evaluating media sources, including videos for students to compare, a search engine activity, “hot” and “cool” language used in writing, and more.
For more information, please email whyvotingmatters@ct.gov.