The lesson seen in the video culminates a 12-week unit to engage students in the civic life of their community. It was videotaped just prior to the 2002 mayoral election in Newark, New Jersey (USA: Annenberg 2018).

Students divide into small groups to brainstorm and research specific community issues, prioritize the issues studied on the basis of what they have learned, present their findings to the class both orally and through a visual presentation, develop a whole-class consensus on a Student Voices agenda of issues they think the next mayor should address, and study the candidates’ positions on the issues they have chosen to track.

• Politik und Wirtschaft

• Schüler/innen
• Lehrkräfte

• Sekundarstufe I
• Sekundarstufe II

• Politics
• Electoral