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McCune, David; Tunstall, Samuel Luke – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2019
This paper describes a lesson centered around a metric for measuring partisan gerrymandering: the efficiency gap. We situate the efficiency gap in the current US political climate, describe the activity itself, and then provide recommendations for readers interested in adapting the lesson for their own classrooms.
Descriptors: Democracy, Voting, Efficiency, Lesson Plans
Weiss, Helen; Weigel, Margaret – 1980
Designed for use in the intermediate grades, this interdisciplinary unit helps students examine traditional and modern roles of women. Fourteen lessons focus on women's activities in colonial America, reasons for women's discontent, the women's rights movement of the 1800's, changes in the roles of women, enfranchisement of women, women's role…
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Feminism, Instructional Materials, Interdisciplinary Approach