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Lesson Plan: Redistricting and Gerrymandering
Posted By llad On August 18, 2017 @ 9:39 pm In | Comments Disabled
From KQED/ By Rachel Roberson
How do redistricting and gerrymandering work? Does gerrymandering silence voters? Who should decide how legislative districts are drawn?
Students watch a video (5:17): Gerrymandering: Is Geometry Silencing Your Vote? and read: Redistricting: The Strange Geometry of Gerrymandering.
Interactives: “Test out your district drawing chops” [1] and “Everything You Need to Know About Redistricting (but were too embarrassed to ask)” [2]
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[1] “Test out your district drawing chops”: http://polytrope.com/district/
[2] “Everything You Need to Know About Redistricting (but were too embarrassed to ask)”: http://content.newsbound.com/public/redistrict/redistrict_us/
[3] https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/03/Gerrymandering-lesson-plan-updated.pdf: https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2017/03/Gerrymandering-lesson-plan-updated.pdf
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