7th-Build+Your+Candidate

[|Build Your Candidate Slideshow]
 * =Project Description=

Students used the [|Select A Candidate Quiz] to find the candidate who had views that most closely matched their own.

After completing the survey classes worked in groups to identify the four issues most important in the 2008 presidential elections. Each class selected different combinations but the issues selected were pro-life/pro-choic, health cae, economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, homeland security and terrorism, energy and the environment.

Students were assigned to groups of four to research a candidate other than the one they were matched with for the survey. They were to research the candidate to create a biography, four quotes on the issues identified, one fact the public needed to know about the candidate and to create a visual representation of the candidate using relevant information from their lives and interests.

We used these visual representations of the candidates to stand in as the representatives of the candidate working the polling area. || [|Select A Candidate Quiz]
 * ==Resources Pre-research==

Biography
[|Biography Resource Center]

Quotes
[|Brainy Quote] [|All Great Quotes] [|On The Issues]

Political Party and Candidate Web Sites
[|U.S. Senator John McCain, Arizona] [|U.S. Senatro Barck Obama, Ilinois] [|McCain Palin 2008] [|Obama/ Biden Change We Need] [|Nader 08 Gonzalez] [|McKinney 08] [|GOP.com] [|The Democratic Party] [|Green Party] [|The Libertarian Party] ||